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

TORONTO (AP) — Freddy Galvis hit a pair of solo home runs, rookie Cavan Biggio had four RBIs and the Toronto Blue Jays beat the Kansas City Royals 11-4. Randal Grichuk had four hits and four RBIs and Teoscar Hernández added a solo home run as the Blue Jays won for the 15th time in 19 regular-season home meetings with the Royals. Wearing red caps and jerseys in honor of Canada Day, the Blue Jays scored in each of the first four innings and finished with a season-high 18 hits.

CINCINNATI (AP) _ Christian Yelich singled with the bases loaded and belted his major league-leading 30th homer as the Milwaukee Brewers downed the Reds, 8-6 at Cincinnati. Milwaukee sent 10 batters to the plate for five runs in the seventh inning before Yelich added a two-run blast in the ninth. The Reds led 3-1 until the seventh-inning eruption.

PITTSBURGH (AP) _ The Brewers lead the NL Central by one game over Chicago after Josh Bell slammed three more homers in the Pittsburgh Pirates’ 18-5 thrashing of the Cubs. Bell belted a three-run shot off Adbert Alzolay in the first, added a two-run shot off the Cubs rookie in the second and finished off a four-hit, seven-RBI night by going deep against newly-signed Chicago closer Craig Kimbrel in the eighth. Adam Frazier finished 5 for 6 and tied a major-league record with four doubles. Colin Moran collected a career-high five hits for the Pirates.

ARLINGTON, Texas (AP) _ Los Angeles Angels pitcher Tyler Skaggs has died during a team road trip at age 27, leading to the postponement of Monday’s game against the Texas Rangers. Skaggs was with the team in Texas when he was found unresponsive in his hotel room and pronounced dead at the scene. Police said they are investigating, but no foul play is suspected at this time. Skaggs had been a regular in the Angels’ starting rotation since late 2016, when he returned from Tommy John surgery.

SPRINGFIELD, Mo. (AP) — Former NFL wide receiver Dorial Green-Beckham has been charged with jumping out of a window with marijuana in his pocket as officers served a search warrant at a Missouri home late last year. The Springfield News-Leader reports that the misdemeanor marijuana possession and resisting arrest charges were filed Thursday. Police say Green-Beckham was shocked with a stun gun and then arrested during the December raid in Springfield. Another man was the target of the search.

WIMBLEDON, England (AP) _ Fifteen-year-old American Coco Gauff pulled off one of the two biggest stunners on opening day at Wimbledon by defeating seven-time Grand Slam champion Venus Williams. The youngest competitor to qualify at the All England Club in the professional era pulled off a 6-4, 6-4 victory over the 39-year-old Williams, the oldest player in the women’s field. Women’s second seed and defending U.S. Open and Australian Open champion Naomi Osaka dropped a 7-6, 6-2 decision to Yulia Putintseva.

Hawkeye Ten Conference

Creston 10, Clarinda 6
Denison-Schleswig 8, IKM-Manning 2
Glenwood 6, Atlantic 2
Harlan 12, Lewis Central 6
Lewis Central 16, Red Oak 6

Western Iowa Conference

Audubon 4, Southwest Valley 0
Treynor 7, South Central Calhoun 4
South Central Calhoun 17, Treynor 12
Tri-Center 15, Shenandoah 5
Underwood 11, St. Albert, Council Bluffs 5

Rolling Valley Conference

Ar-We-Va 4, East Sac County 2
Boyer Valley, Dunlap 16, Riverside, Oakland 1 (4 innings)
Coon Rapids-Bayard 5, Nodaway Valley 1
West Harrison 13, Whiting 0
Woodward-Granger 11, CAM 6

Corner Conference

Essex/South Page 9, Griswold 5
Fremont-Mills 14, East Mills 12
Stanton 13, Sidney 6 (Stanton clinches Regular Season Conference Title)

Other Scores

Boone 9, Winterset 1
Carroll 13, Perry 3 (Final 5 innings)
Mount Ayr 11, Bedford 2 (Completion of Suspended Game)
Mount Ayr 6, Bedford 2

Hawkeye Ten Conference

Atlantic 3, Red Oak 1
Atlantic 7, Red Oak 3
Clarinda 10, Southwest Valley 0
Creston 8, Lewis Central 7
Harlan 4, Bishop Heelan 2 (8 innings)
Shenandoah 17, Tri-Center 0
West Monona 12, St. Albert 0

Western Iowa Conference

AHSTW 4, Logan-Magnolia 3
Audubon 12, Glidden-Ralston 7
Riverside 5, Underwood 0

Rolling Valley Conference

Exira-EHK 3, Ar-We-Va 0
Lenox 4, CAM 1
West Harrison 13, Whiting 0

Corner Conference

Fremont-Mills 7, East Mills 1
Sidney 12, Stanton 5

Pride of Iowa Conference

Lenox 11, Southwest Valley 0
Grand View Christian 4, Nodaway Valley 2
Mount Ayr 11, Bedford 1
Mount Ayr 16, Bedford 3

Other Scores

ADM 3, Van Meter 0
Carroll 10, Perry 0
East Sac County 4, OABCIG 0
Saydel 9, Panorama 7
Sioux City East 16, Council Bluffs Thomas Jefferson 4
South Central Calhoun 6, MVAOCOU 3

Seattle enters their home game tonight (Tuesday night) against St. Louis, as losers of their last four games. The Mariners are 17-25 in home games. Seattle has hit 150 home runs this season, second in the MLB. Daniel Vogelbach leads them with 20, averaging one every 12.9 at-bats. The Cardinals are 17-23 in road games. The St. Louis pitching staff as a whole has an ERA of 4.15. Dakota Hudson leads the team with a 3.40 earned run average. This is the first meeting of the season for these two teams. Game time is 9-p.m. Central Time. Pre-game coverage on KJAN begins at 8:15-p.m.

TOP PERFORMERS: Vogelbach leads the Mariners with 20 home runs and is batting .244. J.P. Crawford is 17-for-42 with three doubles, two triples, two home runs and 12 RBIs over the last 10 games for Seattle.

Paul DeJong leads the Cardinals with 80 hits and is batting .260. Tommy Edman is 8-for-27 with a triple, two home runs and three RBIs over the last 10 games for St. Louis.

The Atlantic softball team picked up two wins over the Red Oak Tigers on Monday night at Darrell Eblen Field. The Trojans won the first half of the double-dip 7-3 and took the second game 3-1.

The first game began with a large number of flyouts and quick moving innings until the fourth when Atlantic finally got a rally going. Olivia Engler got it started with a base hit and Madison Botos and Alyssa Derby followed with hits to load up the bases. Kennedy Goergen was hit by a pitch to bring a run home and Mackenzie Waters later brought two more home on a 2 RBI single.  The Trojans backed that inning up with three more runs in the 5th thanks to a couple of fielding errors from the Tigers and some opportunistic base-running by the Trojans. The Tigers scored all three of their runs in the 6th off of back to back hits from Chloe and Lexi Johnson. Atlantic tacked on one more in the 6th on an RBI double by Engler to bring the final margin. Engler got the win in the circle, allowing three runs on 7 hits with 7 strikeouts and no walks.

Kennedy Goergen got the start in the circle in the second game and had a nice outing. She went 5 innings, allowing 1 run on 7 hits with 1 strikeout and no walks. Engler came on in the 6th to finish up the game. Atlantic grabbed two runs in the first, taking advantage of 5 walks from Emma Bierbaum who got the start in game 2 for the Tigers. Atlantic tacked on one more in the 4th but left the bases loaded in that frame and the 5th. Red Oak’s lone run came in the 5th on an RBI double from Kendall Kells.

At the end of the night Goergen said she felt really good in the circle and the team played together well.

Atlantic Head Coach Terry Hinzmann thought the pitching was some of the best Atlantic has had all season.

Atlantic improved to 25-8 on the season. Red Oak falls to 9-19.

The Atlantic Trojans (22-8) softball team hosts the Red Oak Tigers (9-17) for a double-dip tonight and we’ll have coverage on KJAN.

The Trojans will be trying to build on a couple of wins over the weekend at the Tiger-Knight Tournament in Carroll. The Trojans had lost 5 in a row prior to those weekend wins.

Red Oak split a doubleheader with Kuemper Catholic this past Friday and were on a 9 game slide prior to that.

First pitch is slated for 5:30pm for game 1 tonight and we’ll start pregame coverage at 5:15pm tonight.

HERAKLION, Greece – Iowa State’s Tyrese Haliburton scored a team-high 21 points and dished out eight assists in leading USA Basketball to a 102-84 win Sunday against Lithuania at the FIBA U19 World Cup in Greece.

Haliburton was a perfect 7-for-7 from the field in the first half and finished with 19 points as the United States opened up a 51-41 lead at the break.

In the game, Haliburton was 8-for-9 from the field and 4-for-5 behind the arc. He also had five steals in 35 minutes as the Americans improved to 2-0 in Group A.

The United States faces Senegal in the final game of group action Tuesday at 8 a.m. (CT). The game can be streamed on FIBA’s YouTube channel.

2019 IHSBCA Baseball Rankings
Week 6 Rankings (Released June 30, 2019)

Class 4A (Record)

1.      Johnston (22-3)
2.      Iowa City West (21-6)
3.      Epworth, Western Dubuque (21-5)
4.      Des Moines, Roosevelt (20-4)
5.      Linn-Mar, Marion (20-5)
6.      Urbandale (18-9)
7.      Ankeny Centennial (19-8)
8.      Southeast Polk (21-9)
9.      Dowling Catholic (17-9)
10.    Mason City (18-8)

Others: Ankeny; Iowa City High; Marshalltown; Sioux City East; Waukee

Class 3A (Record)

1.      Xavier, Cedar Rapids (24-2)
2.      Davenport, Assumption (21-3)
3.      Central DeWitt (22-0)
4.      Marion (20-3)
5.      Harlan (18-4)
6.      Ballard (17-3)
7.      Gilbert (19-2)
8.      Bishop Heelan, Sioux City (20-6)
9.      Centerville (17-3)
10.    Fairfield (16-3)

Others: MOC-Floyd Valley; Mt. Pleasant; North Polk; Oskaloosa; Waverly-Shell Rock

Class 2A (Record)

1.      Wilton (17-1)
2.      Dike-New Hartford (23-2)
3.      North Linn (31-4)
4.      Treynor (22-3)
5.      West Lyon (23-0)
6.      Van Meter (21-3)
7.      New Hampton (23-4)
8.      Beckman Catholic, Dyersville (21-8)
9.      Hinton (22-1)
10.    Estherville, Lincoln Central (22-2)

Others: Cascade; MVAOCOU; Pochantas; Underwood; West Marshall

Class 1A (Record)

1.      Newman Catholic, Mason City (21-3)
2.      Martensdale-St. Mary’s (25-3)
3.      Alburnett (24-4)
4.      Calamus-Wheatland (24-3)
5.      Southeast Warren (22-2)
6.      Don Bosco (21-4)
7.      Saint Ansgar (19-6)
8.      Kingsley-Pierson (21-4)
9.      Coon Rapids-Bayard (21-3)
10.    St. Mary’s, Remsen (18-6)

Others: CAM; HLV; Kee; St. Albert, Council Bluffs; South Winneshiek; West Fork; Woodbury Central

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