KJAN Sports Director Chris Parks’ weekly discussion with Atlantic Head Football Coach Mike McDermott. This week they talk about last week’s loss to Creston and preview this week’s road trip to Clarinda.

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(Radio Iowa) — Sunday marks one month since sports gambling was legalized in the state of Iowa, and the administrator of the Iowa Racing and Gaming Commission says things seem to be running smoothly at the state’s casinos. Brian Ohorilko says the commission is happy with the way the casinos have handled things.

“There have been a few bugs here and there with regard to the online apps, things that are more cosmetic, nothing operationally, and so from that standpoint we’ve been very pleased,” Ohorilko says. He says casino operators have happy with the additional traffic they’re seeing with sports betting. “As we sit here today, things have appeared to go pretty smoothly,” He says, “I think the operators that have launched already are pleased with the numbers and the attendance. At least at this point, things seem to be going well.”

Ohorilko says people should be patient with their local casino as sports gambling is still in the early stages of being implemented in the state.  “I still caution people that we are early on in the process, and one of the reasons why it was beneficial to launch in mid-August for those companies that were ready was to try to work out some of the bugs prior to the busiest season for sports wagering, and that’s what started last weekend with N-F-L season,” according to Ohorilko. “And so we’ll start really getting a good handle as to what could be potential issues that come up.”

One of the big weekends for sports gambling in the state could be this weekend’s matchup between Iowa and Iowa State on the football field. Ohorilko says it is also one of the reason casinos wanted to try to have their sportsbook operations going in anticipation of some friendly wagers for this weekend’s game. ”N-F-L season is important, but this game this weekend, a lot of people are interested in it, and I think a lot of people just to have a legal, friendly wager on the game, I think there’s something that people are excited about. So we’ll see how the numbers go,” according to Ohorilko.”I will say that until the market has settled, and all 18 and of the casinos that have applied for a sports wagering license are up and running, I don’t think we’ll have the true numbers, that true feeling for what it will look like, but I do think that this weekend will likely be the busiest to this point in time for the state.”

Sports betting operations are open for business in 14 of the 19 state licensed casinos. The Diamond Jo Worth casino near Northwood opened their sportsbook operation two weeks ago, with plans to introduce their online and betting apps by the end of the year.

AMES, Iowa (AP) — Football fans intending to drive to Jack Trice Stadium in Ames for Saturday’s game between Iowa State University and the University of Iowa face a bigger parking challenge than usual: Fines for illegal parking have been doubled. The city passed an ordinance earlier this year to raise the fine to $40 from $20 for illegal parking from 6 a.m. to midnight on game days.

Geoff Huff with the Ames Police Department says most lots near the stadium charge $20 to park, so people were paying the same in fines to park illegally and closer to the stadium than paying to park legally elsewhere.

Huff says police project around 150,000 people will be in and around the stadium Saturday, compared with an estimated 80,000 in the area for the game two years ago. He says the increase will come in part because ESPN’s College GameDay production and crew have come to town.

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Class 1A
1 Sidney 12-1
2 North Tama 12-0
3 Janesville 6-3
4 LeMars Gehlen Catholic 4-1
5 Holy Trinity Catholic 5-2
6 Wapsie Valley 3-0
7 Lisbon 9-2
8 Southwest Valley 3-1
9 Council Bluffs St. Albert 6-5
10 Lamoni 4-0
11 East Mills 3-1
12 Tripoli 4-4
13 Fremont-Mills 2-2
14 North Butler 9-1
15 Winfield-Mount Union 7-2

Class 2A
1 Western Christian 5-3
2 Osage 3-0
3 Beckman Catholic 14-2
4 Van Buren 8-0
5 Clarion-Goldfield-Dows 7-0
6 Wilton 9-0
7 Underwood 6-1
8 Grundy Center 9-1
9 Hudson 12-2
10 Mediapolis 1-0
11 Sumner-Fredericksburg 6-3
12 Boyden-Hull 6-1
13 Central Lyon 5-2
14 Lake Mills 7-2
15 Cascade 10-2

Class 3A
1 Tipton 10-1
2 Mount Vernon 7-2
3 West Liberty 6-0
4 Union 7-0
5 Davenport Assumption 7-0
6 Dike-New Hartford 6-4
7 Kuemper Catholic 8-1
8 New Hampton 11-0
9 Spirit Lake 13-2
10 Red Oak 6-2
11 MOC-Floyd Valley 7-1
12 Sioux Center 9-1
13 Humboldt 7-2
14 Des Moines Christian 4-0
15 Albia 8-1

Class 4A
1 Cedar Rapids Xavier 8-1
2 Dubuque Wahlert 7-1
3 Sergeant Bluff-Luton 5-0
4 West Delaware 11-1
5 Lewis Central 7-2
6 Waverly-Shell Rock 16-0
7 North Scott 10-1
8 Marion 6-2
9 Knoxville 9-0
10 Clear Creek-Amana 5-3
11 Dallas Center-Grimes 9-2
12 Winterset 3-0
13 Gilbert 13-4
14 Norwalk 9-5
15 Western Dubuque 4-5

Class 5A
1 Cedar Falls 9-0
2 Ankeny 12-1
3 West Des Moines Valley 10-3
4 Waukee 12-4
5 Dowling Catholic 9-6
6 Pleasant Valley 6-0
7 Council Bluffs Abraham Lincoln 6-0
8 Iowa City Liberty 6-0
9 Indianola 8-3
10 Bettendorf 7-3
11 Ankeny Centennial 5-6
12 Southeast Polk 6-4
13 Dubuque Hempstead 5-2
14 Waterloo West 2-1
15 Sioux City East 8-3

Western Iowa Conference 

(3-1) Missouri Valley 25-22-25-25, IKM-Manning 20-25-10-18
(3-1) Riverside 27-25-21-26, Audubon 25-14-25-24 (Gracie Bluml 28 digs and becomes Riverside’s all-time digs leader. Previous record was 626, Bluml now with 654.)
(3-1) Treynor 25-21-25-25, AHSTW 12-25-16-12
(3-2) Tri-Center 27-24-25-14-15, Underwood 25-26-20-25-9

Rolling Valley Conference 

(3-0) Ar-We-Va 25-25-25, Paton-Churdan 18-18-20
(2-0) Coon Rapids-Bayard 21-21, Perry 15-18
(3-2) Glidden-Ralston 27-25-23-25-16, Boyer Valley 29-22-25-17-14
(2-0) Griswold 21-21, Woodbine 8-15
(2-0) Griswold 21-21, CAM 15-9
(2-0) Woodbine 25-25, CAM 17-21

Corner Conference 

(2-0) East Mills 25-25, Bedford 6-14
(2-0) East Mills 25-26, Stanton 16-20
(2-0) Stanton 25-25, Bedford 17-9

Pride of Iowa Conference 

(3-0) Lenox 25-25-25, Central Decatur 19-16-15

Bluegrass Conference 

(3-0) Lamoni 25-25-25, Orient-Macksburg 21-9-11
(3-0) Moravia 25-25-25, Twin Cedars 10-19-11
(3-1) Murray 25-20-25-25, Ankeny Christian 20-25-19-19

Other Scores

(3-0) CB Abraham Lincoln 25-25-25, CB Thomas Jefferson 11-15-12
(3-1) Creston 25-25-18-25, Southwest Valley 21-22-25-23
(2-0) Mount Ayr 25-25, Clarke 23-11
(2-0) Mount Ayr 25-25, Pleasantville 19-18
(2-0) Perry 21-21, Panorama 16-10
(2-1) Perry 23-20-15, Earlham 21-22-8

Friday (09/13/2019)

CLASS 4A

District 7
Council Bluffs, Abraham Lincoln at Lewis Central
Denison-Schleswig at Council Bluffs, Thomas Jefferson

CLASS 3A

District 1
Denison-Schleswig at Council Bluffs, Thomas Jefferson

District 2
Carroll at Harlan

District 9
Carroll at Harlan
Council Bluffs, Abraham Lincoln at Lewis Central
Creston-O/M at Carlisle
Glenwood at Kuemper Catholic, Carroll
Grinnell at A-D-M, Adel
North Polk, Alleman at Winterset

CLASS 2A

District 1

District 9
Atlantic at Clarinda – ON KJAN
Cherokee, Washington at OABCIG
Clarke, Osceola at Red Oak
Glenwood at Kuemper Catholic
Saydel at Greene County
Shenandoah at Treynor

CLASS 1A

District 2
IKM-Manning at South Central Calhoun ( (ND))

District 7
Earlham at Pleasantville
Interstate 35 at Panorama
Martensdale-St. Marys at Woodward Academy
Regina, Iowa City at Pella Christian
Wayne at Colfax-Mingo
Woodward-Granger at South Hamilton

District 8
ACGC at Nodaway Valley
Atlantic at Clarinda- ON KJAN
Central Decatur at Mount Ayr
Interstate 35 at Panorama
Madrid at Van Meter
Southwest Valley at West Central Valley

District 9
Cherokee, Washington at OABCIG
East Sac County at Ridge View
Riverside at Missouri Valley
Shenandoah at Treynor
Underwood at Tri-Center
West Monona at MVAOCOU

CLASS A

District 9
ACGC at Nodaway Valley
Earlham at Pleasantville
Logan-Magnolia at St. Albert, Council Bluffs
Riverside at Missouri Valley
Southwest Valley at West Central Valley
Westwood at AHSTW

District 10
Lawton-Bronson at Hinton
Logan-Magnolia at St. Albert, Council Bluffs
Underwood at Tri-Center
West Monona at MVAOCOU
Westwood at AHSTW
Woodbury Central at Gehlen Catholic, LeMars

CLASS 8

District 6
East Union at Mormon Trail
Murray at Lamoni
Seymour at Lenox
Southeast Warren at Moravia

District 7
East Mills at Griswold
Stanton-Essex at Bedford

District 8
Boyer Valley at West Harrison
Exira/Elk Horn-Kimballton at Audubon
Glidden-Ralston at CAM – ON CAM COUGAR CHANNEL
Woodbine at Coon Rapids-Bayard

Here is the latest Mid-America sports news from The Associated Press

DENVER (AP) — Dexter Fowler and Kolten Wong opened the game with successive home runs and the St. Louis Cardinals connected five times in all to beat the Colorado Rockies 10-3. Marcell Ozuna, Rangel Ravelo and Harrison Bader also homered for St. Louis, which holds a four-game lead over Chicago and Milwaukee atop the NL Central. Held to a total of two runs in losing the first two games of the series at Coors Field, the Cardinals quickly bounced back. Fowler homered on the first pitch of the game.

CHICAGO (AP) — Hunter Dozier hit a tie-breaking, three-run home run in the sixth, Jorge Soler had his third homer in two days and the Kansas City Royals beat the Chicago White Sox 6-3. Whit Merrifield walked and Soler singled off Chicago starter Lucas Giolito in the decisive inning. Then Dozier drove a 1-2 pitch into the left-field bleachers for a 5-2 lead. The homers spoiled a record performance by Giolito, who set a team mark with eight consecutive strikeouts.

KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) — Despite an offseason overhaul of the Chiefs defense, Week 1 proved that there is still plenty of room for improvement. Kansas City was sliced to shreds by a sixth-round pick, Gardner Minshew, despite rolling to a 40-26 victory over the Jaguars.

OAKLAND, Calif. (AP) — When AFC West rivals Kansas City and Oakland meet both teams will be without the receivers they thought would be major parts of their offense. Tyreek Hill of the Chiefs got injured in Week 1, while the Raiders released Antonio Brown two days before their opener. Sammy Watkins stepped up last week for Kansas City. Oakland got big contributions from Tyrell Williams and Darren Waller.

ALAMEDA, Calif. (AP) — It will be the end of an era of sorts this weekend in Oakland. Not that anyone figures to be mourning what should be the final NFL game ever played on a field with infield dirt, especially the players who have had to deal with the bad footing, ripped jerseys, scraped arms and legs and hard falls onto a surface with no cushion.

MANHATTAN, Kan. (AP) — Kansas State heads to Mississippi State for its first road game under Chris Klieman, while Kansas hits the road to Boston College for the first time under Les Miles. West Virginia has a home game against North Carolina State and Texas Tech heads to Arizona. What do they all have in common? The four Big 12 programs have a chance to make Power Five statements this weekend for their new head coaches.

DENVER (AP) — The St. Louis Cardinals had the upper hand from the start on a day the ball was flying out of Coors Field.

Dexter Fowler and Kolten Wong opened the game with successive home runs and the Cardinals connected five times in all, beating the Colorado Rockies 10-3 on Thursday.

Marcell Ozuna, Rangel Ravelo and Harrison Bader also homered for St. Louis, which holds a four-game lead over Chicago and Milwaukee atop the NL Central.

“A day game here, the ball always flies, but you’ve still got to put the barrel on it,” said Fowler, who spent the first six years of his career with Colorado. “It was good to get us started like that.”

Limited to a total of two runs in losing the first two games of the series at Coors Field, the Cardinals quickly bounced back.

Fowler drove the first pitch of the game from Tim Melville into the second deck and Wong followed with a drive that soared over the center field wall.

“I knew he wasn’t going to throw me many fastballs,” Fowler said. “I looked at some video and he was throwing a lot of sliders, so I just hit the first one (fastball).”

Nolan Arenado homered and doubled to drive in a pair of runs for Colorado. Josh Fuentes hit his first big league home run.

Miles Mikolas (9-13) went five innings and allowed three runs on five hits. He struck out five and walked one.

UP NEXT

Cardinals: Return home for a key series against NL Central Division rival Milwaukee with RHP Adam Wainwright (11-9, 4.16 ERA) slated to pitch Friday night’s opener. Wainwright’s 16 career wins against the Brewers are the most among active pitchers.

Rockies: RHP Jeff Hoffman (1-6, 7.06 ERA) is making his sixth start this season at home, where he has gone 1-3 with a 7.33 ERA as Colorado opens a series against San Diego. He’s bidding for his first win since May 29 against Arizona.

The Atlantic Trojans (1-1) football team goes on the road for the second straight week, this time to face the Clarinda Cardinals (2-0). The Trojans will be looking to bounce back after giving up 35 unanswered points last week in a 35-13 loss at Creston. It was a mix of good and bad for the Trojans last week and Head Coach Mike McDermott said they need to eliminate mistakes and be more consistent to have success.

The Trojans face a Clarinda team that is off to strong start under new Head Coach Collin Bevins. The Cardinals shut out Red Oak 40-0 in week 2 and have gotten strong play from quarterback Michael Shull. He has thrown for 199 yards and 2 touchdowns, and also rushed for 52 yards and 5 more scores. Coach McDermott said they will need to be ready to face another confident quarterback like they faced last week against Eli Loudon.

The Cardinals have also gotten a nice season from running back Conner Brown who has rushed for 170 yards and 2 touchdowns so far this season. Atlantic will counter with strength at the running back spot as well. Senior Tyler Moen has rushed for 428 yards and 5 touchdowns already this season. Coach Mullenix said the Trojans missed some opportunities on offense last week and they need to make sure they execute when they get strong chances.

The Trojans and Cardinals are set for a 7:00pm kickoff on Friday night and we’ll have full coverage on KJAN. Chris Parks and Mike Smith will have the call from Clarinda starting with the Dvorak Tire and Service Pregame Show at 6:30pm. Catch our weekly pick ’em show “Who’s Gonna Win?” at 6:00pm. You can hear a full interview with Coach McDermott on “Trojan Preview” at 4:45pm. Catch all the action on AM 1220, FM 101.1, online on kjan.com and you can watch the game on KJANTV.