The Atlantic Trojans hung around on Friday night against the Creston Panthers and seized their opportunity in their last at bat. With the bases loaded and one out Nile Petersen came up with a big drive to left center field to bring home two runs and win the game for Atlantic 6-5.

The Trojans were down two runs heading into their final frame. Grant Sturm got the rally started with a single, Chase McLaren was hit by pitch, and Brody O’Brien was walked to load up the bases. Gunner Kirchoff drew a walk to bring home Sturm and the Trojans were within a run. Petersen then came through with the big double to give Atlantic their second win of the year.

After the game Petersen said, “It felt good to be in that position and get it done. We have been doing this all year, hanging close in games, and it feels great to get the win. This should give us some mojo going into next week.”

Chase McLaren started the game for Atlantic on the mound. He went 3 2/3 innings and struck out 6. Colin Mullenix came on to finish the game and struck out 5.

Atlantic improves to 2-5 on the season. Creston falls to 1-7 on the year. The Trojans will start next week with two home games on Monday and Tuesday.

The Atlantic baseball team will play host to the Creston Panthers tonight and we’ll have coverage on KJAN. The Trojans are 1-5 on the season and the Panthers come in at 1-6. Atlantic is coming off a close loss on Thursday night 4-3 to Shenandoah.

The game is set for an approximate 7:30pm first pitch and we’ll get on the air 10 minutes prior on KJAN. Tune in on AM 1220, FM 101.1, and online at kjan.com.

The 2019 Girls State Soccer Tournament continues today at Cownie Soccer Complex in Des Moines with Semifinal games being played. Here’s the schedule.

Class 1A

11:00am- Davenport Assumption (18-1) vs. Gilbert (19-0)
11:15am- North Polk (16-4) vs. Center Point-Urbana (17-2) 11:15am

Class 2A

1:30pm- ADM (18-1) vs. Cedar Rapids Xavier (15-4)
1:45pm- Waverly-Shell Rock (16-1) vs. Dallas Center-Grimes (14-2)

Class 3A

4:00pm- Waukee (16-3) vs. Ankeny Centennial (16-3)
4:15pm- Dowling Catholic (14-3) vs. Ankeny (17-3)

Scores from the 2019 State Girls Soccer Tournament Quarterfinals on Thursday, June 6th

Class 1A

Davenport Assumption 10, St. Albert 0
Gilbert 1, Union 0
North Polk 2, Bishop Heelan Catholic 1
Center Point-Urbana 1, Nevada 0

Class 2A

Waverly-Shell Rock 2, Lewis Central 1 (OT)
ADM 1, Notre Dame/West Burlington/Danville 0
Cedar Rapids Xavier 3, Spencer 0
Dallas Center-Grimes 1, Pella 0 (2OT)

Class 3A

Waukee 2, Pleasant Valley 0
Ankeny Centennial 3, CB Abraham Lincoln 2
Dowling Catholic 2, WDM Valley 1
Ankeny 3, Linn-Mar 0

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Hawkeye Ten Conference

Shenandoah 4, Atlantic 3
Harlan 12, Clarinda 2 (5 innings)
Harlan 5, Clarinda 1
Kuemper Catholic 7-13, Creston 5-8
Lewis Central 10, Glenwood 7 (8 innings)
St. Albert, Council Bluffs 16, Red Oak 3

Western Iowa Conference

AHSTW, Avoca 12, IKM-Manning 2 (5 innings)
Treynor 9, Missouri Valley 0
Tri-Center 5, Audubon 3
Underwood 12, Sidney 0

Rolling Valley Conference

CAM 11, Lenox 0
Exira-EHK 12, Boyer Valley 4

Other Scores

ADM, Adel 7, Dallas Center-Grimes 1
CAM, Anita 11, Lenox 0 (6 innings)
Carroll 10, Greene County 8
Earlham 7, Madrid 2
Madrid 9, Earlham 1
Sioux City, West 17, Council Bluffs, Abraham Lincoln 8
Van Meter 11, West Central Valley, Stuart 1
Van Meter 21, West Central Valley, Stuart 1

Hawkeye Ten Conference

Atlantic 9, Shenandoah 2 (Alyssa Derby, 2 home runs)
Atlantic 10, Shenandoah 4
Harlan 14-9, Clarinda 0-6
Red Oak 12-3, St. Albert 2-5
Glenwood 7, Lewis Central 3
Creston 14-5, Kuemper Catholic 4-8 (8 innings in Game 2)

Western Iowa Conference

AHSTW 10, IKM-Manning 0
Audubon 20, Tri-Center 10
Logan-Magnolia 3, Riverside 1
Treynor 4, Missouri Valley 1
Sidney 7, Underwood 6

Rolling Valley Conference

Exira-EHK 9, Boyer Valley 8
Grand View Christian 11, CAM 4
Greene County 14, Glidden-Ralston 3
West Harrison 14, Fremont-Mills 1

Other Scores

ADM 3, Dallas Center-Grimes 0
Carlisle 8, Winterset 2
Interstate 35 13, ACGC 4
Interstate 35 9, ACGC 2
Lenox 10, East Mills 0
Moravia 10, Orient-Macksburg 2
Mount Ayr 13, East Union 0
Van Meter 12, West Central Valley 0
Van Meter 14, West Central Valley 1
West Monona 10, OABCIG 2

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

ST. LOUIS (AP) — Paul DeJong homered and St. Louis tied its season high with four stolen bases in a 3-1 win over the Cincinnati Reds to complete a successful homestand that cut the Cardinals’ NL Central deficit. DeJong hit a tiebreaking, two-run homer off Michael Lorenzen (0-1) in the seventh inning, DeJong’s ninth home run this season and first since May 18. He had been is a 3-for-43 slide with no extra-base hits. Matt Carpenter, Kolten Wong, Marcel Ozuna and Dexter Fowler swiped bases for the Cardinals.

KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) — Mookie Betts hit a two-run homer off Danny Duffy in a four-run third inning and the Boston Red Sox defeated the Kansas City Royals 7-5 to complete their first series sweep in nearly a month. Boston outscored the Royals 23-8 over three games and swept a series for just the fourth time this year, the first since May 10-12 against the Chicago White Sox. The World Series champions are 27-16 following a 6-13 start. Betts is 7 for 11 with five home runs against Duffy.

BOSTON (AP) — The St. Louis Blues are one win away from their first Stanley Cup championship. Jordan Binnington stopped 39 shots, and Ryan O’Reilly and David Perron scored for St. Louis in a 2-1 victory over Boston for a 3-2 lead in the best-of-seven series. Game 6 is Sunday night.

The CAM Cougars softball team rallied to take a lead into the fifth inning against Grand View Christian on Thursday night but eventually lost the game 11-4.

The Thunder scored 3 runs in the 1st inning to grab the early lead. CAM rallied back with 3 of their own in the 3rd on a bases clearing double by Taylor Bower. The Cougars then grabbed the lead by scoring once more in the 4th.

It was all Thunder after that. They took the lead back at 5-4 by bringing home two in the 5th and then brought across 5 more in the 6th. They would tack on one more in the 7th for the final margin.

Grand View Christian improves to 8-1 on the season. The Thunder piled up 12 hits by the end of the night compared to the Cougars 6. CAM falls to 1-6.

Check out the video replay of the game on the CAM Cougar Channel HERE

The CAM Cougars (1-5) softball team plays host to the Grand View Christian Thunder (7-1) tonight in Anita and we’ll have the game on KJAN. The Cougars are coming off a 7-3 loss last night to Exira-EHK and the Thunder won their last outing on Tuesday 3-1 over Nevada.

CAM has been led by the hitting of Grace Kauffman, Marissa Spieker and Macy Ticknor who all are hitting .375 on the season. Kaufmann and Spieker have 6 hits apiece on the young season.

The Thunder have had a strong start with 4 players hitting above a .400 average, led by Karlee Knode at .500 with 8 hits on the year.

First pitch is scheduled for 5:30pm and we’ll have coverage on KJAN beginning at about 5:20pm. We also plan to have live video available on the CAM Cougar Channel at kjan.com