Friday (09/21/2018)

CLASS 4A

District 7
Council Bluffs, Abraham Lincoln at Urbandale
Des Moines, North at Ames
Valley, West Des Moines at Council Bluffs, Thomas Jefferson

CLASS 3A

District 1
Denison-Schleswig at Spencer
Sergeant Bluff-Luton at Bishop Heelan Catholic, Sioux City
Storm Lake at LeMars

District 2
Boone at Humboldt
Dallas Center-Grimes at Perry
Webster City at Carroll

District 9
Harlan at ADM, Adel
Lewis Central at Creston-O/M
Winterset at Glenwood

CLASS 2A

District 9
Kuemper Catholic, Carroll at Atlantic
OABCIG at Red Oak
Shenandoah at Greene County

CLASS 1A

District 8
Clarinda at Panorama, Panora
Mount Ayr at West Central Valley, Stuart
Van Meter at AC/GC

District 9
East Sac County at Treynor
Missouri Valley at Cherokee, Washington
Underwood at MVAOCOU

CLASS A

District 2
Alta/Aurelia at Manson Northwest Webster
IKM-Manning at St. Edmond, Fort Dodge
Sioux Central, Sioux Rapids at Ridge View

District 9
Earlham at St. Albert, Council Bluffs
Nodaway Valley at Southwest Valley
Riverside, Oakland at AHSTW

District 10
Logan-Magnolia at Westwood, Sloan
West Monona at Lawton-Bronson
Woodbury Central, Moville at Tri-Center, Neola

CLASS 8

District 6
East Union, Afton at Southeast Warren, Liberty Center
Lamoni at Moravia
Lenox at Mormon Trail, Garden Grove
Seymour at Murray

District 7
Clarinda Academy at Essex
Fremont-Mills, Tabor at Griswold
Sidney at Bedford
Stanton at East Mills

District 8
Audubon at Boyer Valley, Dunlap
Coon Rapids-Bayard at West Harrison, Mondamin
Exira/Elk Horn-Kimballton at CAM, Anita
Glidden-Ralston at Woodbine

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

AMES, Iowa (AP) — The Iowa State community will close out a horrible week by coming together to watch the Cyclones at Jack Trice Stadium on Saturday. The game against Akron will be more about helping the school, alumni and fans remember one of their own than football. Former Big 12 champion golfer Celia Barquin Arozamena was found stabbed to death while playing golf at a local course earlier in the week and the team plans to honor her by wearing a helmet decal.

VILAMOURA, Portugal (AP) — Sergio Garcia dedicated his round in the Portugal Masters to the Spanish women’s college golfer killed in Iowa. Celia Barquin Arozamena, the Big 12 champion this year for Iowa State, was found stabbed to death Monday. Garcia shot a 5-under 66, leaving the Spanish star three strokes behind leader Lucas Herbert

UNDATED (AP) — The first Big Ten game of the season for No. 18 Wisconsin and Iowa could end up being the biggest one in the West division this season. The Badgers lost to BYU last weekend but still look like the class of the division. Iowa and its dominant defense looks like Wisconsin’s most dangerous threat. Saturday’s game in Iowa City could go a long way in determining who reaches the Big Ten title game.

DETROIT (AP) — Christin Stewart hit his first two big-league homers and drove in six runs Thursday night, leading the Detroit Tigers past the Kansas City Royals 11-8. Stewart, a September call-up playing in his 11th game, became the first Tigers rookie to drive in six runs in a game since Ryan Raburn had seven against the Chicago White Sox on July 25, 2007.

KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) — Chiefs quarterback Patrick Mahomes has already won three games on the road. Now, he’ll try to win one at Arrowhead Stadium. The young record-setting quarterback makes his home debut on Sunday against San Francisco, which boasts its own dynamic young signal-caller in Jimmy Garoppolo. It’s a meeting of two teams that appear to be on the rise.

KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) — The Chiefs have poured draft picks and free-agent money into building their offensive line, and so far it has paid off. Not only did the group help Kareem Hunt win the NFL’s rushing title last year, it has been nearly perfecting in protecting Patrick Mahomes. The group has allowed just two sacks through the first two weeks of the season.

Hawkeye Ten Conference

(3-0) St. Albert, Council Bluffs 25-25-25, Atlantic 11-7-14

Western Iowa Conference

(3-2) IKM-Manning 18-25-25-25-15, Missouri Valley 25-19-27-22-11
(3-0) Tri-Center, Neola 25-25-25, Underwood 7-22-18
(3-0) Treynor 25-25-25, Logan-Magnolia 14-14-23

Rolling Valley Conference

(3-0) Boyer Valley 25-25-25, Woodbine 6-13-11
(3-0) CAM, Anita 25-25-30, Ar-We-Va, Westside 10-11-28
(3-1) Coon Rapids-Bayard 20-25-25-25, Exira-EHK 25-12-18-16
(3-1) Paton-Churdan 25-23-25-25, Woodbine 7-25-17-16

Corner Conference

(3-2) East Mills 25-25-24-22-15, Mount Ayr 15-23-26-25-4
(2-0) Essex 25-25, South Page 22-22
(2-0) Lenox 25-25, Essex 15-16
(2-0) Lenox 25-25, South Page 16-12

AMES, Iowa (AP) — It was decades ago, but Sara Schwendinger remembers perfectly the panic she felt when she realized a car was following her as she ran along a country road at dusk, just outside her small Wisconsin hometown. She desperately tore into a cornfield and listened as the vehicle stopped. “I remember hiding in the cornfield and hearing them and then just running as fast as I could in the other direction and making it out of this cornfield and all the way to my house and being petrified,” she said. “That experience has never left me, and it’s 25 years ago.”

Now 41 and living in Des Moines, Schwendinger often recalls that evening as she hears comments yelled by passing motorists when she trains along city streets. It’s a disturbingly common part of life for female athletes, and it’s suddenly in the spotlight following the deaths of three women who were attacked while engaged in the sports they love. The killings raised alarms about how women can defend themselves and why they must be ready to fight off attackers in the first place.

“It’s not fair that they have a different situation than a man does,” said Steve Bobenhouse, the owner of a Des Moines-area running store and a longtime fixture in the city’s running community. “But it’s the way it is.” Iowa State University golf star Celia Barquin Arozamena was stabbed to death during a random attack while she was golfing by herself in broad daylight on a course not far from the campus, in Ames.

That attack came little more than a month after the body of University of Iowa student Mollie Tibbetts was found hidden among corn stalks near her small hometown of Brooklyn, Iowa. She had disappeared weeks earlier after going for a run. Police have charged men with murder in both of the Iowa killings. Tibbetts’ death prompted an outpouring from other runners, especially on social media under the hashtag #MilesforMollie.

Hundreds of women shared their experiences of being harassed and followed and vowed to keep running as a show of defiance. After Tibbetts’ death, Bobenhouse’s store set up a meeting to discuss safety issues and had to move the gathering to the city’s main library due to an overwhelming response. More than 200 women gathered that night to hear from police and share best practices on how to stay safe while running alone.

Kathleen Meek, who helped organize the event, said a key issue is situational awareness. “I’d be the first one to say that, even walking, I’ve had headphones in and I’ve thought ‘Oh my gosh. I don’t even know who’s around me,” Meek said. She urged women to “know what’s going around you so you can be confident in what you’re doing.”

Other suggestions included using the buddy system, joining a running/biking club and informing others of intended routes should something go wrong. Des Moines police spokesman Paul Parizek, who hosted the meeting, also warned women to know their abilities and understand their limitations should they find themselves in imminent danger. “There’s a lot of conversation now, especially since Mollie Tibbetts’ (death), about, do I need a gun? Do I need a stun gun? Pepper spray? What do I need? Well, that depends on what you’re willing to do, what you think you need to do and what you’re capable of doing,” Parizek said.

According to Joseph Giacalon, a retired New York City detective and sergeant who now teaches at the John Jay College of Criminal Justice, one of the ways that women can also put themselves in danger is when they share their whereabouts on social media. Giacalon says his warnings to his students not to announce their plans on Instagram, Twitter or Snapchat can “fall on deaf ears.” But he also tells his students to change up their routines as often as they can and make sure their headphones aren’t turned up too loud to for them to not know what’s happening around them.

“These guys are just looking for that opportunity,” Giacalon said. “Women, specifically, need to be mindful of their surroundings, unfortunately, when they’re going out.”
If there’s one thing Parizek, Giacalon and Schwendinger agree on, it’s that women shouldn’t have to face these issues to begin with. But they do, and Schwendinger, the cross country coach at Roosevelt High in Des Moines, said it happens to her so often that she’s “almost” unfazed when she’s harassed while running. Recently, a truck full of men yelled out lewd comments to her in the middle of the day on a busy main street between downtown and the airport.

To Schwendinger, the issue is less about women learning to protect themselves and more about changing the dialogue about women being objectified. “We shouldn’t have to arm ourselves against men who are making those decisions,” she said. “You teaching me how to throat punch a guy is all well and good. But why do I need to be in the position to throat punch a guy?”

The Exira-EHK Spartans (4-0) will travel to face the CAM Cougars (3-1) on Friday night in Anita for a huge 8-Man District 8 football contest. The Spartans are on a roll with an undefeated record through a very tough early season schedule. That run includes wins over Fremont-Mills, Audubon, and Glidden-Ralston; all teams that have spent time in the top ten rankings this season. CAM is off to a great start as well with their only hiccup coming on the road against Glidden-Ralston. Exira-EHK Head Coach Tom Petersen said this will be his team’s toughest test to date, and it will be tough trying to slow down the wealth of ball carriers for the Cougars.

The Spartans success has come through a number of guys that have played together for a long time. Quarterback Josh Pettepier has been efficient completing 67% of his passes for 1,042 yards and 11 touchdowns with just 2 interceptions. Coach Petersen said Josh has really improved his game this year.

Cole Burmeister has been a do-it-all weapon for the Spartans with 209 yards rushing and 7 scores along with 444 yards receiving and 6 more scores. CAM Head Coach Joe Wollum said his team will need to know where he is on the field and he reminds him of a special player the Cougars had last season.

The Cougars have been able to get a lot of guys involved on both sides of the ball and Coach Wollum said that continued growth of depth has been big for the Cougars. Three guys (Darien Burnison, Isaac Bower, and Mitchell Williamson) have carried the ball for over 200 yards for CAM.

Coach Wollum knows this matchup always has a big game atmosphere and the teams will be excited to get out there and compete.

We’ll have coverage of the game on KJAN with pregame at 6:30pm and kickoff at 7:00pm. Chris Parks and Mike Smith will have the call from Anita. Catch the game on-air, online, on the mobile app, or catch live video on our Facebook page. Catch our weekly pick ’em show Who’s Gonna Win? at 6:00pm. Stay tuned after the game as all the scores from around the state will come at you on the Iowa High School Scoreboard Show from 10:00pm-11:30pm.

The Atlantic Trojans football team is getting set to open up district play this week in Class 2A District 9. The Trojans (2-2) will begin the new district run by hosting the team that won the district last year, the Kuemper Catholic Knights (1-3). The Trojans are coming off a 56-14 loss at Harlan last week but despite the loss did take away some positives from the game. The run game showed some flashes of efficiency and the Trojans were able to break a couple big plays in the first half to stay tight with the Cyclones for a quarter and a half. Where the Trojans struggled was defending the deep ball and Head Coach Mike McDermott said they have been working on trying to win those jump ball battles this week in practice. The Knights are a team that will try to spread the defense out and Coach McDermott wants his defense to stop the run game first.

Nate Wendl leads the Knights on the ground with 345 yards and 1 touchdown so far this season against a tough schedule where the Knights have played up or against ranked opponents each week. Defensively Coach McDermott expects the Knights to be tough and the Trojans will need to take advantage of space they are given.

Chase Mullenix has thrown for 477 yards and 4 scores and rushed for 408 yards and 5 touchdowns. Coach McDermott said they are looking at more ways to use Chase’s talents but at the same time he said they are asking some of their other upperclassmen to step up their game down the stretch.

Tune in for a full interview with Coach McDermott on Trojan Preview on Friday afternoon at 4:45pm on KJAN.

The Trojans and Knights will kickoff at 7:00pm at the Trojan Bowl on Friday night.

The Atlantic Trojans volleyball team will play host to the St. Albert Saintes tonight and we’ll have coverage on KJAN. The Trojans are 6-16 on the season and have been off since a road loss to Harlan last Thursday. The Saintes are 11-4 on the season and also have been off since a big 3-2 upset of Kuemper Catholic last Thursday.

The Trojans and Saintes have met once already this season. That was a St. Albert 2-0 sweep at the Trojan Tournament in Atlantic on September 8th.

We’ll start our coverage at 6:50pm this evening with first serve at 7:00pm.

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

ATLANTA (AP) — The NL East-leading Atlanta Braves snapped a four-game skid with a 7-3 victory over the St. Louis Cardinals as Freddie Freeman hit a two-run homer and Touki Toussaint pitched into the sixth inning. The Cardinals, leading for the second wild-card spot, ended a three-game winning streak.

PITTSBURGH (AP) — Chris Archer pitched seven strong innings, and the Pittsburgh Pirates completed a three-game sweep of the Kansas City Royals with a 2-1 win. In his most impressive start since being acquired from the Tampa Bay Rays on July 31, Archer allowed one run on six hits with eight strikeouts and one walk. The right-hander made it out of the sixth inning for the first time in nine starts for the Pirates, who traded for him in hopes of making a playoff run.

AMES, Iowa (AP) — Teammates and others who knew an Iowa State University student-athlete who was killed this week while playing golf near the campus shared stories about her and lit candles in her memory. The vigil Wednesday evening to remember 22-year-old Celia Barquin Arozamena drew a large crowd to the Ames campus. Several speakers, including women’s golf coach Christie Martens, talked about the star golfer from Spain. Barquin, an engineering student, was the Big 12 women’s golf champion this year.

AMES, Iowa (AP) — Relatives of a star collegiate golfer from Spain who was stabbed to death by a stranger on an Iowa golf course say they are distraught. Miriam Arozamena says it was terrible fate that her 22-year-old daughter, Celia Barquin, crossed paths with her killer on Tuesday morning. Collin Daniel Richards has been charged with murder in Barquin’s death. Speaking from her residence near Torrelavega in northern Spain, Arozamena told broadcaster Tele 5 on Wednesday that her daughter had “such bad luck.”

KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) — The Chiefs were desperate for help at cornerback this offseason when general manager Brett Veach made the curious decision to spend what remained of his salary cap on Sammy Watkins. Well, that questionable move paid off last Sunday, when the full depth of the Chiefs’ offensive arsenal was on display in Pittsburgh. Now, the pressure is on opposing defense to figure out a way to stop it.

ATLANTA (AP) — Freddie Freeman spent the previous four seasons playing for an Atlanta team that averaged 90 losses a year.

Now that the Braves are back challenging for a division title, the All-Star first baseman knows his club can’t afford any long losing streaks.

“It’s been four days, so I thought this was a big win for our team,” Freeman said. “I thought we played a quality baseball game today and hopefully we can carry that into this Philly series.”

Freeman hit a two-run homer and drove in three runs, Touki Toussaint pitched into the sixth inning and the NL East-leading Braves snapped a four-game skid with a 7-3 victory over the St. Louis Cardinals on Wednesday.

It was a big win for Atlanta, which began the day with a 5½-game lead over Philadelphia and opens a four-game home series against the Phillies on Thursday.

The Braves need any combination of six victories or Philadelphia losses to clinch their first division title since 2013.

St. Louis, which had won three straight, began the day leading Colorado by 1½ games for the second wild-card spot.

Closer A.J. Minter, working in a non-save situation in the ninth, walked two to load the bases, but he ended it by striking out Jose Martinez and getting Paul DeJong to pop up.

Freeman’s 23rd homer, an opposite-field shot to left-center, put the Braves up 2-0 in the fourth against Jack Flaherty. Freeman went 3 for 3 and is hitting .405 over his past 11 games.

“He’s getting the ball in the air, and it’s carrying, and that’s always a good thing,” manager Brian Snitker said. “That’s a welcomed sight if we can get him going.”

Toussaint (2-1) allowed five hits, two runs, three walks and struck out eight in 5 2/3 innings. A rookie making his fourth career start, Toussaint was chased after Yadier Molina’s RBI single cut the lead to 5-2 in the sixth.

“We survived the first couple of innings with essentially zero fastball command, then suddenly we had some decent command of it and were able to flip the script and challenge guys with some early contacts,” Braves catcher Tyler Flowers said. “If he gets ahead of guys, it’s a tough arsenal to defend.”

Flaherty (8-8) gave up five hits, a season-high five runs and two walks with six strikeouts in 4 2/3 innings. Facing the Braves for the first time, Flaherty began the game as the NL rookie leader in strikeouts, winning percentage and opponents’ batting average. He had gone 4-1 with 1.69 ERA in his previous eight starts.

Flowers doubled to begin the three-run fifth and scored on a wild pitch. Freeman chased Flaherty with an RBI single, and the lead swelled to four runs on a double steal by Ender Inciarte and Freeman. The Braves successfully challenged to get the call overturned that Freeman had been tagged out.

“I thought things went well early, then Freeman put a good swing on a ball and then in that one inning things kind of got away,” Flaherty said. “I put a couple of guys on base with walks and then Freeman put another good swing on the ball.”

Atlanta added a run to make it 6-2 in the seventh. Inciarte doubled and scored when second baseman Kolten Wong threw errantly to first on a potential double play grounder.

Jedd Gyorko’s sacrifice fly in the eighth cut the lead to 6-3. Flowers’ eighth homer in the bottom half of the inning made it 7-3.

At least for one game, Atlanta played well at home, where it had dropped 14 of 18 and has won just one of its past seven series.

Freeman, who became the first Braves first baseman with 20 homers and 10 stolen bases in a season since Dale Murphy in 1978, wants his teammates to enjoy the pennant race and not press.

“It’s fun. It really is,” Freeman said. “This is what you work for six, seven months. To be in this situation this year, it’s the greatest feeling there is.”

UP NEXT

Cardinals: RHP John Gant (7-6, 3.53 ERA) will start when St. Louis, following a day off, opens a three-game home series against San Francisco. He allowed six hits and six runs in his previous start, a 17-4 loss to the Dodgers.

Braves: RHP Kevin Gausman (10-10, 3.92 ERA) will make his ninth start since being acquired in a trade with Baltimore as Atlanta tries to pad its lead on the Phillies. He is 3-0 with a 2.45 ERA in four starts at SunTrust Park.