The AC/GC Chargers baseball team is coming off a 7-6 loss to Lenox in the Class 1A Region 6 playoff bracket last season. The Chargers are coached by Taylor Morris this season.

The Chargers season have started their 2023-2024 season trying to find their first win of the season. Their losses have come to the hands of Exira-EHK, Coon Rapids-Bayard and Earlham. The Chargers currently have a 0-5 record and 0-2 record in the West Central Conference.

Chargers coach Taylor Morris had this to say about their last years season ending loss to Lenox

The Chargers have been working hard on the first part of their season.

Coach Morris elaborated on who will be his top athletes on this years team.

Coach Morris talked about his upcoming busy schedule for this week.

The Chargers next baseball game will be Monday June 3rd, when they will travel and take on Panorama in a West Central Conference regular season game. That game will get underway at 5:00 p.m.

IOWA CITY, Iowa – University of Iowa men’s basketball All-American Carl Cain passed away on Sunday.  He was 89.

Cain played for the Hawkeyes from 1954-56, where led the program to back-to-back Final Fours in 1955 and 1956.  The Freeport, Illinois, native earned first-team All-America honors during his senior season in 1956 when he was part of the “Fabulous Five” – a group that led the Hawkeyes to an NCAA runner-up finish.

Cain was named to the all-tournament team at NCAA Regionals and at the Final Four both seasons.

During his three seasons as a Hawkeye, Cain helped the program to 56 wins, including 35 Big Ten victories and two Big Ten regular season titles (1955, 1956).  The team was the league runner-up in 1954.

Cain was a three-time All-Big Ten honoree, earning first-team honors in 1956, and he was twice named Iowa’s Most Valuable Player (1954, 1956). He finished his career with 1,054 points and 501 rebounds.

Following the 1956 season, Cain was a member of the United States National Team that won a gold medal in Melbourne, Australia.  He was also selected in the 1956 NBA Draft by Rochester with the 49th overall pick.

Cain, whose No. 21 is retired in the Iowa men’s basketball program, is a member of the Iowa Athletics Hall of Fame (1989) and the Des Moines Register State of Iowa Sports Hall of Fame.

Funeral arrangements are pending.

BOYS 

CLASS 1A ALL-STATE

Chase Jahde, Junior, CAM, 38.06 CAAVG, 2nd at State

Keith Thompson, Sophomore, Hamburg, 36.65 CAAVG 1st at State

CLASS 2A ALL-STATE

Maverick Schwabe, Senior, Kuemper Catholic (37.62 CAAVG, 11th at State)

Girls

Class 1A All State

Jaylee Shaffer, Freshman, Mount Ayr, 40.29 CAAVG, 2nd at State

Ernie Els broke a logjam at the top with an eagle on the par-five 13th hole to take the lead for good as the South African won the Principal Charity Classic at the Wakonda Club in Des Moines. Els finished with a final round of seven under 65 to close the tournament at 21 under.

For Els it was his fourth win on the PGA Tour Champions and his first this season.

After holding the final day lead and coming up short in his last two tournaments Els finally got over the hump.

While Els eagled the 13th, defending champ Stephen Ames missed the green on the par three 14th. He saved par but it was a big turning point as he finished two strokes back in second place.

It was another successful week at Wakonda for Ames. The native of Canada was in search of his third win in four years. *

In his first season in the tour Heath Slocum enjoyed his best finish. He shot a final round of five under 67 to finish in a tie for sixth.

Slocum could have challenged for the lead but missed birdie putts on 14 and 17.

Atlantic Invite

• Atlantic 11 Riverside 1
• Atlantic 12 Tri-Center, 0
• Carroll 8 Atlantic, 5
• Audubon 7 Carroll, 4
• Audubon 8 Abraham Lincoln 4
• Audubon 1 Harlan 0
• Estherville Lincoln Central 4 Griswold 0
• Estherville Lincoln Central 9 Riverside 3
• Estherville Lincoln Central 5 Earlham, 3
• Carroll 12 Harlan, 0
• Earlham 12 Harlan, 0
• Earlham 15 Tri-Center 3
• Griswold 3 Lewis Central 2
• Griswold 6 Underwood 3
• Underwood 9 Abraham Lincoln 6
• Underwood 7 Lewis Central 3
• Riverside 5 Lewis Central 2
• Abraham Lincoln 7 Tri-Center 0

Storm Lake Tournament

• Denison-Schleswig 3, AHSTW 2 – 8 innings
• AHSTW 7, Harris Lake Park 6

Murray Tournament 

• Consolation Semifinal – Central Decatur 13, Lamoni 4
• Consolation Semifinal – Lenox 14, East Union 2
• Semifinal – Clarinda 13, Orient-Macksburg 3
• Semifinal – Murray 12, Melcher-Dallas 2
• 7th Place – Lamoni 12, East Union 0
• 5th Place – Lenox 12, Central Decatur 3
• 3rd Place – Orient-Macksburg 10, Melcher-Dallas 9
• Championship – Clarinda 5, Murray 1

Missouri Valley Tournament 

• Missouri Valley 12, Fremont-Mills 0
• Missouri Valley 7, MVAOCOU 5
• Fremont-Mills 11, MVAOCOU 7

West Central Valley Tournament 

• West Central Valley 7, Coon Rapids-Bayard 4
• Ankeny Christian 16, Coon Rapids 0
• AC/GC 4, Ankeny Christian 1

Non-Conference Games

• Bondurant-Farrar 13, Thomas Jefferson 0
• Bondurant-Farrar 10, Thomas Jefferson 0

CYO Tournament @ Carroll

• Remsen St. Mary’s 6, Kuemper Catholic 1
• Remesen St. Mary’s 5, Bishop Heelan
• Bishop Heelan 10, Kuemper Catholic 1

MVAOCOU Tournament @ Mapleton

• IKM-Manning 7, MVAOCOU 0
• Woodbine 7, MVAOCOU 6
• Woodbine 11, IKM-Manning 1

Coon Rapids-Bayard Tournament 

• Coon Rapids-Bayard 6, Bedford 0
• Pleasantville 8, Bedford 7
• Kee 12, Coon Rapids-Bayard 6

Boone Invitational 

• Des Moines Lincoln 7, ADM 3
• ADM 4, Algona 0
• Boone 2, Algona 1
• Boone 7, Des Moines Lincoln 0

Non-Conference Games

• Treynor 7, Red Oak 1
• Van Meter 8, Carlisle 2
• Clarinda 7, Missouri Valley 2

Boys

Class 1A Championship – North Fayette Valley 2, Van Meter 0

Class 2A Championship – Bishop Heelan 3, Assumption 2

Class 3A Championship – Dallas Center-Grimes 3, Des Moines-Hoover 0

Class 4A Championship – Johnston 3, Dowling Catholic 0

Girls 

Class 1A Championship – Nevada 2, Denver 0

Class 2A Championship – Dallas Center-Grimes 6, North Polk 1

Class 3A Championship – Bettendorf 3, Valley 1