INDIANAPOLIS (AP) — Former Butler and Iowa coach Todd Lickliter is returning to his Indianapolis roots. Marian University, an NAIA school located just a few miles from the Butler campus, has called a Wednesday afternoon news conference to announce that it has hired Lickliter, a person with knowledge of the hire told The Associated Press. The person requested anonymity because the announcement hasn’t happened. Lickliter enjoyed his greatest basketball success in Indy, leading Butler to the NCAA tournament’s regional semifinals in 2003 and 2007 and was chosen the 2006-07 national coach of the year by the National Association of Basketball Coaches. He went 38-57 over the next three seasons at Iowa, a tenure that included health problems. He sat out 2010-11, then returned last season as an assistant at Miami (Ohio).

DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) — The Florida men’s track and field team has seemingly accomplished everything but a national outdoor title. The star-crossed Gators have finished in second place four times since 2004, and last season they wound up third after losing in the final race of the meet. But Florida has three straight indoor national titles to its credit and is once again among the favorites to win this year’s meet, which starts Wednesday at Drake Stadium in Des Moines, Iowa. Texas A&M’s men and women have won the last three national outdoor titles, but most expect that streak of pulling off double titles to end in 2012. The Aggie men appear to stack up equally with Florida State and Florida, which can’t afford to focus on their past inability to break through at the outdoor meet like they have indoors. Texas A&M’s women’s team is expected to finish behind Oregon, LSU and Kansas.

Listen for the Atlantic @ Harlan baseball game tonight on KJAN!  We’re on the air at 7:30 and the first pitch is at 7:45.  Jim Field will have the action from tonight’s Hawkeye 10 Conference showdown on AM 1220 and FM 101.1.

First Team, 2012
Trenton McNeel, Glenwood, SR, Forward
Devon McClain, Harlan, SR, Forward
Troy Mahood, Lewis Central, SR, Mid
Blake Beier, Glenwood, SR, Mid
Cesar Estrada, Denison, SR, Mid
Jordan Voge, Harlan, SO, Mid
Miguel Ramos, Lewis Central, JR, Mid
Kyle Nolan, Glenwood, SR, Def
Zach Shelton, Harlan, SO, Def
Zac Johnson, Denison, JR, Def
Nick Frazee, Glenwood, JR, Goalie

Second Team, 2012
Marcos Rodriguez, Denison, SR, For
Tyler Jensen, Glenwood, JR, For
Alex Hillers, Lewis Central, JR, Mid
Ben Landers, Creston, SR, Mid
Colton McNeel, Glenwood, SO, Mid
Cooper Kanne, Kuemper, SO, Mid
Dakota Watson, Atlantic, SR, Def
Greg Conry,  Harlan, SR, Def
Quintin O’Toole, Lewis Central, JR, Def
Josh Whitmore, Lewis Central, SR, Def
Jaden Brouse, Lewis Central, SR, Goalie

Honorable Mention, 2012
Alex Guerrero, Denison, JR, Def
Justin Kahl, Denison, JR, Mid
Nolan Gillespie, Lewis Central, SR, For
Connor Pals, Creston, FR, For
Thomas Devine, Harlan, JR, Mid
Derek Von Seggern, Atlantic, SR, For
Harrison Hoegh, Atlantic, JR, Mid
Kolby Shaw, Creston, SR, Def
Scout Crow, Glenwood, SO, Mid
Carter Daniel, Kuemper, SR, Mid
Joshua Ahrens, Kuemper, FR, Goalie

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BELLEFONTE, Pa. (AP) – A former Penn State wrestler faces jail time after pleading guilty to aggravated indecent assault involving the mother of a fellow student.  Twenty-three-year-old Andrew Long will serve a sentence of at least one year minus a day for the assault last August on a 55-year-old woman. The Centre Daily Times of State College reports Long avoided a trial on charges including attempted rape by pleading guilty Monday.

Police say Long got into bed with the woman while she slept, removed her clothing and touched her.  The 23-year-old Creston, Iowa man was a key member of the Nittany Lions team that won the 2011 NCAA championship, finishing third at 133 pounds.

Sentencing is scheduled for Aug. 30.

Class 1-A Regional Finals

• St. Albert 9, Tri-Center 2
• Gilbert 2, Bondurant-Farrar 1
• Davenport Assumption 9, Mid-Prairie 1
• Waterloo Columbus Catholic 7, Clear Creek-Amana 0
• Center Point-Urbana 5, Denver 0
• Iowa City Regina 3, Dubuque Wahlert 0
• Nevada 4, Gladbrook-Reinbeck 1
• Sioux City Bishop Heelan 5, Unity Christian 0

Class 2-A Regional Finals

• ADM 2, Lewis Central 1 (3-2 PK’s)
• Glenwood 3, Nodaway Valley/WCV/AC 0
• Cedar Rapids Xavier 4, Cedar Rapids Prairie 0
• Dallas Center-Grimes 2, Des Moines Hoover 1
• Union 1, Waverly-Shell Rock 0
• Pella 10, Mount Pleasant 0
• North Scott 2, Pleasant Valley 0
• Sioux City East 3, Spencer 1

Class 3-A Regional Finals

• Dowling Catholic 10, CB Abraham Lincoln 0
• Ankeny 6, Southeast Polk 0
• Bettendorf 3, Muscatine 2 (4-3 PK’s)
• Cedar Rapids Kennedy 1, Dubuque Hempstead 0
• Iowa City West 3, Cedar Rapids Jefferson 0
• Johnston 1, Urbandale 0 (3-1 PK’s)
• Linn-Mar 2, Cedar Falls 1
• Waukee 2, West Des Moines Valley 1 (3-0 PK’s)

Hawkeye 10:

• Atlantic 6, Clarinda 1 (Gunnar Blum 2 HR’s, Tyler Hovey complete game)
• Denison-Schleswig 8, Lewis Central 6
• Creston 15, Shenandoah 7
• Glenwood 19, Red Oak 0 (5 inn)
• Harlan 7, Kuemper Catholic 1

Western Iowa:

• A-H-S-T 13, Underwood 1
• Missouri Valley 11, Tri-Center 9
• Riverside 12, Griswold 2

Rolling Hills:

• CAM 3, East Greene 2
• EHK-Exira 2, Walnut 1
• Iowa Christian Academy 12, Adair-Casey 7
• Orient-Macksburg 13, Glidden-Ralston 3

Others:

• Coon Rapids-Bayard 6, Earlham 4
• Des Moines Christian 22, Guthrie Center 1
• Lenox 13, Essex 12
• Logan-Magnolia 16, Maple Valley-Anthon-Oto 2
• Murray 15, Mount Ayr 0 (4 innings)
• Panorama 6, Madrid 3
• St. Albert 16, Bedford 0
• Dallas Center-Grimes 10, Carroll 0

Hawkeye 10:

• Creston 10, Shenandoah 0
• Harlan 14, Kuemper Catholic 1
• Glenwood 13, Red Oak 0

Western Iowa:

• Treynor 13, Audubon 3
• Tri-Center 2, Missouri Valley 1
• Underwood 8, A-H-S-T 0

Others:

• Charter Oak-Ute 15, West Harrison 4
• Des Moines Christian 15, Guthrie Center 1
• Earlham 12, Coon Rapids-Bayard 0
• IKM-Manning 5, River Valley 2
• Madrid 6, Panorama 4
• Wayne 11, Nodaway Valley 0
• West Monona 7, Boyer Valley 6
• Westwoodn 8, Ar-We-Va 1
• Maple Valley-Anthon-Oto 4, Logan-Magnolia 7
• Dallas Center-Grimes 4, Carroll 0
• Nishnabotna 9, Bedford 4