Iowa State backup point guard Tre Jackson has entered the transfer portal. Jackson averaged 3.7 points this season for the Cyclones, averaging 12.8 minutes in 28 games.
Jackson’s playing time was up and down this season but he was part of the rotation during the Cyclones NCAA Tournament run. Jackson appeared in 74 games over three seasons at Iowa State.
The 6-foot guard from Columbia, SC will have two years of eligibility remaining.
ST. LOUIS, MO., March 28, 2022 – The St. Louis Cardinals announced today that they have reached an agreement with Albert Pujols on a one-year contract for 2022, re-uniting the franchise with one of its most decorated players of all-time. Pujols, 42, was drafted by St. Louis in 1999 (13th round) and played his first 11 seasons with the Cardinals, nine of those as a National League All-Star.
“We are pleased and excited to have Albert return to the Cardinals for the upcoming season,” stated Cardinals Chairman Bill DeWitt, Jr. “This reunion with Albert is a wonderful opportunity for not only him and the Cardinals, but also for our great fans, the St. Louis community, our players and staff, and everyone connected to the St. Louis Cardinals organization. “We look forward to seeing Albert in the “Birds on the Bat” once again, and wearing his familiar uniform number 5.”
A member of the Cardinals 2006 and 2011 World Series Champions, Pujols compiled a .328 batting mark, 445 home runs and 1,329 RBI in his 11 seasons (2001-11) with the Cardinals, earning National League MVP honors in 2005, 2008 and 2009.
“Seldom does one get to share in watching or being a part of ‘living’ history,” said Cardinals’ President of Baseball Operations John Mozeliak. “From the day we called Albert’s name in the draft room back in 1999, to now, as we set our sights on 2022, this reunion just makes sense in so many ways. We are all looking forward to reuniting Albert with his Cardinals family, and for the fan in all of us, including myself, this feels like looking through the pages of a favorite scrapbook or baseball card album and seeing those images and memories jump off the pages.”
Pujols currently ranks among the top-10 in Major League Baseball’s all-time career leaders in RBI (2,150, 3rd), home runs (679, 5th), doubles (672, 5th), extra base hits (1,367, 4th), total bases (6,042, 4th) and at-bats (11,114, 8th) and his 3,301 career hits rank 12th.
In his 11 seasons with the Cardinals, “El Hombre” posted franchise career top-10 totals for slugging pct. (.617, 1st), on-base pct. (.420, 2nd) home runs (445, 2nd), RBI (1,329, 2nd), doubles (455, 2nd), walks (975, 2nd), games (1,705, 8th), runs (1,291, 3rd) and batting average (.328, 6th).
Albert is a 10-time All-Star, six-time Silver Slugger, two-time Rawlings Gold Glover, 2001 N.L. Rookie of the Year, 2004 N.L. National League Championship Series MVP, 2003 National League batting champion (.359), and 2008 Roberto Clemente Award honoree.
Pujols led the National League in runs scored five times, hits once (212 in 2003), home runs twice, and RBI once (118 in 2010). He holds the 2000s decade (2000-09) National League “Triple Crown” for batting (.334), home runs (366) and RBI (1,112) despite the fact he didn’t debut until 2001.
Pujols has appeared in 74 career postseason games for the Cardinals, hitting a franchise postseason record 18 home runs with 52 RBI, including a World Series record-tying 3 HR’s in Game 3 of the 2011 Fall Classic.
Pujols ranks among the all-time Busch Stadium III leaders in games played (462, 5th), home runs (112, 1st), RBI (358, 2nd), runs scored (314, 3rd) and hits (544, 2rd).
The St. Louis fan-favorite spent the 2012-21 seasons in Los Angeles with the Angels and Dodgers, earning an All-Star selection in 2015 with the Halos. Pujols had six seasons with 20 or more homers for the Angels and four 100-plus RBI seasons. He batted .254 with 12 HR’s and 38 RBI in 85 games with the Dodgers last season, and hit .294 with 13 HR’s and 34 RBI with a .939 OPS in his 146 plate appearances versus left-handed pitching in 2021.
Pujols will wear his iconic uniform no. 5, which the team never re-issued after its 2011 World Series Championship season.
(Atlantic, Iowa) – The Trevor Frederickson Memorial Fund has donated a set of 3D shooting targets to the Atlantic Community Schools’ archery program. The program which continues to grow each year offers students in 6th through 12th grade the opportunity to shoot at both bullseye and 3D tournaments. This year the Atlantic High School became the State Champions and several students from both the middle school and high school division will be traveling to Salt Lake City, UT at the end of April to compete in the NASP Western Nationals.
Frederickson Fund spokesperson Melanie Petty (Trevor’s mom), said “We look forward to watching this group continue to grow in the sport for years to come.”
Pictured: Grant Petty and Coach Clint Roland (Photo & info. courtesy Melanie Petty)
Jim Field visits with Paige Jensen about her role as Cass County Pork Queen.
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(Johnston, Iowa) – Two law enforcement officers from Cass County are set to graduate Friday morning from the 46th DPS (Dept. of Public Safety) Basic Academy. The ceremony for recruits takes place in Johnston. According to Iowa State Patrol Sgt. Alex Dinkla, for the past 10-weeks, the 17 recruits – including Dustin Gelner and Tyler Shiels, from Cass County – have completed courses on the laws of arrest, search and seizure, defensive tactics, arrest techniques, precision driving, firearms, emergency management services, criminal law, human relations, physical fitness, human trafficking, motor vehicle law and many other law enforcement-related courses.
Following graduation, Dustin Gelner, a former Atlantic Police Officer, and Tyler Shiels, formerly with the Cass County Sheriff’s Department, will both become members of the Iowa State Patrol.
Guests speaker for the ceremony is IDPS Commissioner Stephen K. Bayens. The event is open to family members of the recruits.
GIRLS TRACK
Bondurant-Farrar Invitational
Creston finished 7th with 38 points and Winterset was 3rd with 108. Creston’s Brianna Fields went 5th in the Shot Put and 3rd in the Discus.
BOYS TRACK
Creston finished 5th with 82 points and Winterset was 4th. Creston’s top finishes were a win by Brandon Bailey in the 800M, 5th place run for Casen Dryden in the 200M, Jayden Pettegrew was 5th in the 400M and 3rd in the 400M Hurdles. The Panthers were 3rd in the 4x200M, 2nd in the 4x400M and 4x800M,
Girls Golf
St. Albert 213, Logan-Magnolia 235, Tri-Center 245
Medalist: Lainey Sheffield, St. Albert, 49
Runner-Up: Alexis Narmi, St Albert 53
Boys Golf
Tri-Center 202, St. Albert 222
Medalist: Grant Way, Tri-Center, 43
Runner-Up: Jaxon Johnson, Tri-Center, 50
Girls Soccer
Glenwood 3, Sioux City West 1
Lewis Central 10, Sergeant Bluff-Luton 0
Tri-Center3, Harlan 1
Boys Soccer
Riverside 3, Atlantic 2 OT (R: Rhett Bentley 2 goals, Mikey Casson game-winner in 2nd OT. A: Gershon Segura and Tristan Mathisen each had a goal.)
(Radio Iowa) – There are some students at Iowa State University who can actually say beer is helping them get their degree. I-S-U professor Robert Brown has been brewing beer on his own for years and was approached by the Center for Crops Utilization Research to develop a class on the subject. “So I scrambled working with the folks that approve courses at Iowa State and got it approved last November, and here we are teaching it,” Brown says. He got help from an I-S-U Alum who donated brewing equipment his company makes to get them going, and the crop center found space for the brewing lab.
“The students get a lecture once a week, and then they spend the whole afternoon in the laboratory,” Brown says. “And they are introduced to different kinds of equipment appropriate to whether it’s home brewing they are interested — or to look at commercial brewing of beer.” He admits some people question a beer brewing course on campus — but he says there’s a lot to it. “The course is called the science and practice of brewing. And I put science first because the students are asked to reach back to what they learned their freshman and sophomore years in chemistry and biology and microbiology, and things that they learned — especially those who are engineers — to heat transfer, thermal dynamics, and apply that to the brewing of the beers,” according to Brown.
Robert C. Brown (left) works alongside Jessica Brown (no relation) while brewing their Capsaicin Sour ale. (2021 photo via ISU Engineering News)
He says you can’t just throw the ingredients together and expect to get a good beer. It takes some time. “Working out how much grain and how much water to work into it,” he says. “So it really is for many of them I think a culmination of their studies at the university — whether it was food science or mechanical engineering.” Brown says the industry has changed so much in the last several years and there’s more happening now as well. “There’s talk about hard seltzers for example and non-alcoholic beers, so there’s a revolution that’s technology driven,” he says.
Brown says the talk also centers on whether to brew large batches of beer you can market nationwide, or focus on smaller batches to be sold locally. Students in the class do have to be 21. Brown says he takes a team approach to the brewing process. There are five students assigned to each of the four identical brew stations, and sometimes they are trying to determine if one brew was better than the other with the same recipe.
He started the brewing class in January and says the batches of beer have been improving.
(Radio Iowa) – Iowa farmers could inadvertently find new markets for their commodities because of the Russian invasion of Ukraine. Chad Hart, an agricultural economist with Iowa State University, explains….”If Russia and Ukraine aren’t able to export, that means the rest of the world is searching for another place to buy grain from,” Hart says, “and it tends to drive actually more sales for us here out of the U.S.”
When Russia invaded Afghanistan in 1980, then-President Jimmy Carter imposed a grain embargo on Russia. Hart doubts the effectiveness of a similar embargo today. “Global markets have changed quite a bit since then and we won’t see the same impacts with the same policy moves,” Hart says, “given how time has changed agriculture over the last 40-some years.”
Agricultural exports from Russia and Ukraine have ground to a halt and the invasion is going to have certain impact on what Ukrainian farmers can produce this year. “On the wheat side, I would say the planting is already done, so it’s impacting the crop that was planted last fall that would be growing later on this spring, they plant a lot of winter wheat,” Hart says. “The corn that they would produce would be planted here when we plant our crops coming up in the next month or two and it’s that planting that is most in jeopardy.”
The Russian invasion of Ukraine began on February 24th, so it’s already been a little over a month.
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