Girls:

• Atlantic 1, Creston 0 (shoot out @ Atlantic 5/07/12)  Atlantic & Creston remained scoreless after regulation play & 2 10 minute overtimes.  The game goes to a shoot out where Emily Mitchell, Ali Hosfelt & Cassie Long make their PKS and Maren McNees saves 3 penalty shots to notch the win over Creston.  The Trojanns  travel to Denison on Thursday.
• Sioux City East 6, Denison 0

Team Scores:

1. Mt. Ayr Community 85
2. Nodaway Valley 75
3. Martensdale-St. Marys 68
4. Griswold 65
5. Interstate 35 59
6. Central Decatur 48
7. Melcher-Dallas 33
8. Pleasantville  22
9. Bedford  22
10. Adair-Casey 21
11. West Central Valley 20
12. Clarinda Academy 16
13. East Union  9
14. Corning  9
15. Southeast Warren 6

Event Winners:

• 100:  Cory Harding (MSM)
• 200:  Cory Harding (MSM)
• 400:  Nick Petersen (I-35)
• 800:  Trent Verwers (MSM)
• 1600:  Trent Verwers (MSM)
• 3200:  Colton Graham (NV)
• 110 Hurdles:  Shawn Harrah (CD)
• 400 Hurdles:  Nick Petersen (I-35)
• 4 x 100:  Bedford
• 4 x 200:  Griswold
• 4 x 400:  Griswold
• 4 x 800:  Griswold
• Sprint Medley:  Central Decatur
• Shuttle Hurdle:  Martensdale-St. Marys
• Shot Put:  Dustin Pritchett (MA)
• Discus:  Dustin Pritchett (MA)
• High Jump:  Braydee Poore (MA)
• Long Jump:  Briar Vogel (I-35)

Team Scores:

1. Treynor 123
2. Tri-Center 78
3. IKM-Manning  69.5
4. Audubon 69
5. Exira/EHK 49
6. Boyer Valley 39
7. Maple Valley 34
8. A-H-S-T 29
9. Underwood 23
10. Missouri Valley 22
11. St. Albert 21
12. West Harrison 12
13. Logan-Magnolia 11
14. Nodaway Valley 9
15. CAM 50

Event Winners:

• High Jump:  Chaley Rath (T)
• Long Jump:  Morgan Koenings (MAV)
• Shot Put:  Kaylee Blake (IKM/M)
• Discus:  Kaylee Blake (IKM/M)
• 3000:  Dana Johnson (A)
• 4 x 800:  Tri-Center
• 100:  Emma Konkler (A)
• Shuttle Hurdle:  Audubon
• 400:  Sarah Schlichte (IKM/M)
• Distance Medley:  St. Albert
• 100 Hurdles:  Chaley Rath (T)
• 4 x 200:  A-H-S-T
• 200:  Emma Konkler (A)
• 800:  Ashtyn Alfers (T-C)
• 400 Hurdles:  Chaley Rath (T)
• Sprint Medley:  Exira/EHK
• 1500:  Ashtyn Alfers (T-C)
• 4 x 100:  Audubon
• 4 x 400:  Tri-Center

DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) – Iowa says that tickets for its season opener against Northern Illinois at Chicago’s Soldier Field are now available to the general public. The Hawkeyes say tickets range from $60-80 for the neutral site game, which will be held on Sept. 1.  Iowa says nearly 15,000 of its season-ticket holders have already purchased tickets.  The Hawkeyes finished 7-6 a year ago, while Northern Illinois won its last nine games. But Iowa is 7-0 against the Huskies, including a 16-3 win at Soldier Field in 2007.

PHOENIX (AP) — Lance Lynn gave up three hits through five scoreless innings to become the majors’ first six-game winner and the St. Louis Cardinals held on for a 9-6 victory over the Arizona Diamondbacks on Monday night. Rafael Furcal hit the 30th leadoff home run of his career for St. Louis, the first of five homers for the Cardinals on the night. Carlos Beltran and Matt Holliday hit consecutive homers to open the third off Joe Saunders (2-2). Allen Craig and David Freese homered to start the seventh after Arizona had scored six times in the sixth to cut the lead to 7-6. Lynn (6-0), the first St. Louis pitcher to start the season with six wins since Bob Tewksbury in 1994, left with a 7-0 lead. Cody Ransom hit a two-run homer in the Diamondbacks’ rally.

DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) – An Iowa family’s collection of baseballs signed by slugger Babe Ruth just before he died has sold at auction for more than $200,000.  Heritage Auctions director Chris Ivy says eight balls signed by Ruth during a trip to Spencer in 1948 sold for just over $216,000 on Friday.  One ball in near-mint condition went for $77,000, while two others sold for just over $13,000.  Ivy says Ruth visited a Ford dealership in Spencer owned by John Hart 64 years ago. Hart’s family kept eight of the dozens of balls Ruth signed in a safe deposit box for more than six decades until deciding recently to put them up for auction.

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Jim Field and Tom Thomsen have the call of the game played Saturday, May 5th at Atlantic High School.  Final score — Abraham Lincoln 3, Atlantic 0.  (NOTE:  we broadcast using 3G technology and unfortunately there was an internet outage in western Iowa Saturday afternoon during our broadcast which affected our connection.  We are sorry, but it was out of our control.)

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(5/5/12 Carroll Golf and Country Club)

1. Kuemper  307
2. Harlan  316
3. Carroll  316
4. Spencer  318
5. Atlantic  320
6. Storm Lake  320
7. Prairie Valley  322
8. Humboldt  327
9. Denison  340
10. Ballard  349
11. Webster City  352
12. Lewis Central  353
13. Shenendoah  356
14. Red Oak  394

Individual Scores:

1. John Bral (Storm Lake) 68
2. Tanner Ludwig (Kuemper) 73
3. Nicholas Anderson (Prairie Valley) 74
4. Sam Wilkie (Carroll) 74
5. John Labernik  (Spencer) 75
6. Ross Martens (Harlan) 75
7. Tanner Peterson (Denison) 76
8. Brad Christiansen (Carroll) 77
9. Josh Sapp (Kuemper) 77
10. Matt Gute (Kuemper)  78

HOUSTON (AP) – Tyler Greene hit a career-high two homers and drove in four runs, Adam Wainwright continued his dominance of the Astros and the St. Louis Cardinals got an 8-1 win over Houston on Sunday. The victory breaks a season-long five-game winning streak for the Astros and ends a three-game skid for the Cardinals.  Allen Craig also homered for St. Louis, getting things going with a two-run shot in the first inning. Greene’s two-run home run in the fourth pushed the lead to 6-0 and his solo homer in the eighth made it 8-1.  Wainwright (2-3) allowed seven hits and one run with seven strikeouts in seven innings. He improved to 10-1 in 17 career appearances against the Astros – his most wins against any team. Houston starter J.A. Happ (2-2) allowed six hits and a season-high six runs – five earned – in five innings.

The Cards are in action Monday night against the Arizona Diamondbacks. Pre-game coverage begins at 7:45-p.m., on AM 1220 and FM 101.1, KJAN.