Hawkeye 10:

• (3-0) Red Oak 25-25-25, Atlantic 18-13-12
• (3-0) Harlan 25-25-25, Creston 7-12-9
• (3-1) Lewis Central 25-25-21-25, Glenwood 20-19-25-14
• (3-0) St. Albert, Council Bluffs 25-25-25, Denison-Schleswig 13-15-11

Western Iowa Tourney Semi-Finals:

• (3-0) Treynor 25-26-25, IKM-Manning 20-24-16
• (3-2) Underwood 20-26-22-25-15, Missouri Valley 25-24-25-19-12

Others:

• (3-0) Carroll 25-25-32, Winterset 12-21-30
• (3-0) Des Moines Christian 25-25-25, West Central Valley, Stuart 17-15-6
• (3-2) East Union 25-27-23-17-15, Bedford 18-25-25-25-13
• (3-1) Essex 25-24-25-25, East Mills 23-26-23-22
• (2-0) Grandview Park Baptist 25-25, Orient-Macksburg 6-9
• (3-1) Guthrie Center 25-25-21-25, Van Meter 15-19-25-16
• (3-1) Martensdale-St Marys 14-25-25-25, Southwest Valley 25-18-22-21
• (3-0) Martensdale-St Marys 25-25-25, Bedford 10-19-20
• (3-0) Ogden 25-25-25, Panorama 12-12-20
• (3-0) Southwest Valley 25-25-25, East Union 12-9-18
• (3-0) Stanton 25-25-25, Heartland Christian 11-9-13
• (3-0) Fremont-Mills 25-25-25, Clarinda Academy 6-5-4

The three winners of the inaugural Bob Feller Act of Valor Award were announced today. Peter Fertig of New York man created the award in tribute to the former Cleveland Indians pitcher from Van Meter, who struck out 17 batters at the age of 17, and was a decorated World War Two anti-aircraft gunner. Fertig consulted with baseball executives, the U-S Navy and Feller’s widow. “I wanted to find a way to honor Bob Feller, a true American patriot and a hero,” Fertig says. He says it’s important to remember what Feller did on and off the baseball diamond.

“Bob was a major league baseball player, rose to the rank of Chief Petty Officer in the United States Navy, and he was a baseball Hall of Famer. My job is to keep his memory alive of what he did. If we forget shame on us,” Fertig explains. Fertig is the president of the award’s foundation which will choose the winners each year. The Act of Valor Award goes to a Hall of Famer, an active baseball player and a Naval officer — each representing a part of what Feller was.

“Bob Feller was a phenom at the age of 23, he had already pitched six years in the major leagues and on December seventh, 1941 he never hesitated, he never wavered, he joined the hardest hit part of our military at that time which was the United States Navy,” Fertig says. The inaugural winners of the award are Yankee’s legend Yogi Berra, Detroit pitcher Justin Verlander, and Chief Petty Officer Garth Sinclair. Berra is now 88, and is cited for his career with the New York Yankees and also for participating in the D-Day invasion in World War Two.

(Radio Iowa)

LOS ANGELES (AP) — Matt Holliday and pinch-hitter Shane Robinson hit the first home runs of the NL championship series, and the St. Louis Cardinals beat the Los Angeles Dodgers 4-2 on Tuesday night to take a 3-1 lead in the best-of-seven matchup. In a series starved for offense, the Cardinals scored as many runs as they did in the first three games combined, when the teams totaled nine runs.

Hitless in his previous 22 at-bats at Dodger Stadium, Holliday sent a two-run shot off Ricky Nolasco an estimated 426 feet into left field, capping a three-run third that gave the Cardinals a 3-0 lead.

Game 5 is this (Wednesday) afternoon at Dodger Stadium, with the Cardinals one win from the World Series. Zack Greinke is set to start for the Dodgers against Joe Kelly.

ST. LOUIS (AP) — An attorney for Albert Pujols has discounted another lawyer’s suggestion that Pujols and former Cardinals slugger Jack Clark take lie-detector tests to settle Pujols’ defamation lawsuit over Clark’s claim that Pujols used steroids. Pujols is suing Clark, who played for the Cardinals from 1985 to 1987, for his comments on a local radio show accusing Pujols of using steroids. Clark’s lawyer, Al Watkins, suggested Monday both men take polygraph tests.

Pujols, a nine-time All-Star who played for the Cardinals from 2001-11, filed a defamation lawsuit against Clark in St. Louis County, seeking unspecified damages that would be donated to charity. The St. Louis Post-Dispatch reports Martin Singer, Pujols’ lawyer in Los Angeles where the slugger plays for the Angels, says sworn testimony, “not inadmissible polygraphs and absurd publicity ploys — is what counts.”