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Boys State Singles and Doubles Tennis Tournaments begin play today and will finish on Saturday. The Class 1A Tournament is being played at Byrnes Park in Waterloo. The Class 2A Tournament is beginning singles play indoors at the University of Iowa’s HTRC at 9:30 a.m. with doubles play still scheduled to play at Veterans Memorial Tennis Center in Cedar Rapids with Coe College on standby as a rain site.
In Class 1A Atlantic’s Grant and Ethan Sturm will be in doubles competition. Their first match will begin around 9:30 a.m. and will be against the duo of Luke Hicks & Carter Soppe of Kuemper Catholic. Other area doubles teams competing include Harrison Dahm & Colin Reis of Denison-Schleswig, Reed Finnegan & Josh Schuster of Shenandoah.
Area singles competitors in 1A are: Nathan Brown of Clarinda, Jeff Miller of St. Albert, Andrew Lawrence of Shenanodah, and Brock Bruns of Harlan.
In Class 2A CB Abraham Lincoln’s Dalton Pregon will compete in singles play.
The first round of play for Class 2A and 3A girls soccer teams is Friday. Winners will advance to regional semifinals next Wednesday, June 2nd. Here’s a look at tonight’s area schedule.
CLASS 2A
Region 1
Spirit Lake @ Sheldon Sibley-Ocheyedan 5:00 p.m.
Storm Lake @ Carroll 6:00 p.m.
Region 2
Denison-Schleswig @ Harlan 5:30 p.m.
Atlantic @ Panorama 6:00 p.m.
CLASS 3A
Region 1
Sioux City West @ Sioux City North 6:00 p.m.
SOFTBALL
Hawkeye Ten Conference
Atlantic @ Denison-Scleswig PPD
Clarinda 8, Shenandoah 6
Creston 12, Red Oak 0
St. Albert 3, Lewis Central 2
Western Iowa Conference
AHSTW 7, Riverside 6
Treynor @ Audubon PPD
Tri-Center 12, IKM-Manning 7
Underwood 6, Logan-Magnolia 5
West Monona 11, Missouri Valley 1
Rolling Valley Conference
CAM 16, East Mills 4
Exira-EHK 8, Kuemper Catholic 4
River Valley 8, West Harrison 4
Woodbine 2, Sidney 0
Pride of Iowa Conference
Lenox 4, Nodaway Valley 1
Southeast Warren 11, East Union 0
Southwest Valley 7, Bedford 4
Wayne 7, Central Decatur 3
Other Scores
CB Abraham Lincoln 3, LeMars 2 (Game 1)
LeMars 6, CB Abraham Lincoln 1 (Game 2)
Melcher-Dallas 3, Twin Cedars 2
Moravia 13, Lamoni 5
Orient-Macksburg at Murray PPD
Sergeant Bluff-Luton at CB Thomas Jefferson (DH) PPD
BASEBALL
Hawkeye Ten Conference
Atlantic @ Denison-Schleswig PPD
Clarinda 9, Shenandoah 2
Creston 6, Red Oak 2
Lewis Central 6, St. Albert 1
Western Iowa Conference
AHSTW 7, Riverside 6
Missouri Valley 25, West Monona 1
Treynor at Audubon PPD
Tri-Center 22, IKM-Manning 0
Underwood 10, Logan-Magnolia 1
Rolling Valley Conference
CAM 10, East Mills 0
Exira-EHK 14, Griswold 4
Woodbine 7, Sidney 5
Pride of Iowa Conference
Central Decatur 6, Wayne 5
Nodaway Valley 5, Lenox 1
Southeast Warren 11, East Union 1
Southwest Valley 18, Bedford 13
Other Scores
Lamoni 5, Moravia 0
LeMars 13, Abraham Lincoln 1 (Game 1)
LeMars 8, Abraham Lincoln 2 (Game 2)
Melcher-Dallas 11, Twin Cedars 6
Orient-Macksburg at Murray PPD
Sergeant Bluff-Luton at Thomas Jefferson (DH) PPD
Class 1A @ Westwood Golf Course in Newton
Individual Leaders
T1 | Hogan Henrich Newell-Fonda, 12 | +5 | – | – | |
T1 | Lucas Gunderson Harris-Lake Park, 12 | +5 | – | – | |
3 | Trey Johnson East Buchanan, Winthrop, 12 | +6 | – * | – | |
4 | Clayton Phillips New London, 12 | +7 | – | – | |
5 | Michael Bell North Tama, Traer, 11 | +8 | – | – | |
T6 | Trey Lashbrook AGWSR, Ackley, 12 | +9 | – | – | |
T6 | Ben Macy AGWSR, Ackley, 12 | +9 | – | – | |
T6 | Daniel Stahl AGWSR, Ackley, 11 | +9 | – | – | |
T6 | Jaydon Nabb North Cedar, Stanwood, 9 | +9 | – | – | |
T10 | Drew Schaeffer St. Edmond, Fort Dodge, 12 | +10 |
Team Leaders
1 | AGWSR, Ackley | +49 | – | – | |
2 | Newell-Fonda | +54 | – | – | |
3 | North Tama, Trear | +60 | – | – | |
4 | East Buchanan, Winthrop | +62 | – | – | |
5 | Fremont-Mills, Tabor | +66 | – | – | |
6 | Newman Catholic, Mason City | +69 | – | – | |
7 | St. Edmond, Fort Dodge | +76 | – | – | |
8 | St. Albert, Council Bluffs | +86 | – | – | |
9 | North Cedar, Stanwood | +91 | – | – |
Class 2A @ Lakeside Municipla Golf Course @ Fort Dodge
Individual Leaders
POS
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PLAYER
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THRU
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TOTAL
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1 | Drew Van Roekel Boyden-Hull, 11 | F * | +1 | |
T2 | Axton Miller OABCIG, 9 | F | +4 | |
T2 | Bob Ryan Tipton, 11 | F | +4 | |
T2 | Bennett Berger Lake Mills, 11 | F * | +4 | |
T5 | Dexter Whitehill Grundy Center, 11 | F | +5 | |
T5 | Jake Weissenburger Des Moines Christian, 11 | F | +5 | |
T7 | Ashton Martens Grundy Center, 11 | F | +6 | |
T7 | Will Bridges West Branch, 10 | F | +6 | |
T9 | Dylan Countryman West Branch, 11 | F | +7 | |
T9 | Grant Caltrider West Central Valley, Stuart, 11 | F | +7 |
Team Leaders
1 | Lake Mills | F | +31 | |
2 | West Branch | F | +33 | |
3 | Grundy Center | F | +34 | |
4 | Hudson | F | +44 | |
5 | Boyden-Hull | F | +45 | |
6 | Kuemper Catholic, Carroll | F | +53 | |
7 | Beckman Catholic, Dyersville | F | +54 | |
T8 | Emmetsburg | F | +55 | |
T8 | Western Christian, Hull | F | +55 |
Class 3A @ Elmwood Country Club in Marshalltown
Individual Leaders
1 | Hogan Hansen Waverly-Shell Rock, 11 | F | +2 | |
T2 | Jack McCarty Solon, 9 | F | +5 | |
T2 | Jackson Laven Spirit Lake, 12 | F | +5 | |
T2 | Brock Snyder Gilbert, 10 | F | +5 | |
5 | Mason Weeks Spirit Lake, 12 | F | +6 | |
6 | Davis Korver MOC-Floyd Valley, 10 | F * | +7 | |
T7 | Joe Currans Gilbert, 9 | F | +8 | |
T7 | Will Simpson Pella, 11 | F | +8 | |
T9 | Sawyer Hansen Gilbert, 11 | F | +9 | |
T9 | Bryce Malchow Gilbert, 12 | F | +9 |
Team Leaders
1 | Gilbert | F | +31 | |
2 | Solon | F | +45 | |
3 | Spirit Lake | F | +48 | |
4 | Monticello | F | +59 | |
5 | MOC-Floyd Valley | F * | +63 | |
6 | Knoxville | F * | +67 | |
7 | Clear Lake | F * | +68 | |
8 | ADM-Adel | F * | +71 | |
9 | Oskaloosa | F * | +86 | |
10 | Winterset | F * | +87 |
(Radio Iowa) – The Powerball and Lucky for Life games are adding more drawings later this year. Iowa Lottery spokesperson, Mary Neubauer says Powerball is going to add a Monday drawing along with the Wednesday and Saturday drawings — while the Lucky For Life game will move from two drawings to a drawing every night.” Powerball is nationwide, while the Lucky For Life game involves Iowa and 15 other states. Neubauer says the changes are in response to the feedback they’ve been getting. “Players are looking for bigger, faster-growing jackpots in games like Powerball and MegaMillions. And so, the change in Powerball is designed to help deliver those bigger, faster-growing jackpots,” Neubauer says. “When you have another drawing in the mix every week it would mean more tickets being sold and that way the jackpot would grow more quickly.”
The big jackpots in the games have lagged since the pandemic.”We’re an instant gratification society — and this is a way to speed up the pace of the games a little bit,” she says. Neubauer says more drawings don’t change your odds of winning a jackpot. “Even though extra drawings are being added in the game — it does not change the rest of the specifics in the game, ” according to Neubauer. “So the prize levels are staying the same, the odds of winning, the ticket price is all the same, it’s just that there will be more drawings per week.”
The Lucky for Life game will change first. “The first daily drawings in that game begin on July 19th. And then the changes in Powerball will occur in August — with Powerball moving to three drawings a week. The first Monday drawing in that game will happen on August 23rd,” she says.
You can win the Powerball jackpot by matching all six numbers selected in the drawing, while the Lucky for Life game gives players a daily shot at winning its top prize of one-thousand dollars a day for the rest of their lives.
(Radio Iowa) – An Iowa State University study finds a recent federal court decision forcing the line speeds at meat processing plants to slow down could result in a two-and-a-half percent loss in pork packing capacity nationwide. I-S-U economist Dermot Hayes says without any changes, the ruling will lead to a cut of more than 80-million dollars in income for small pork producers. “We were expecting those plants to be at capacity this fall so those extra hogs are going to have to find a home,” Hayes says. “Packers will have to cancel contracts with producers and push those hogs out and they’ll be transported a couple hundred miles to a plant that is willing to take those hogs, but of course, at a discount.”
Hayes says the new regulations go into effect July 1st, but plants won’t start reaching capacity until September, October or November — which is when the forced slowdowns will hit. “Four or five of the plants have been running at these line speeds for 20 years,” Hayes says, “so it’s not a short-term decision that caused this. It’s one of those laws of unintended consequences. We’ll see it this fall when we traditionally get the most hogs going through the pipeline.” Hayes says if the agency plans to appeal the court’s decision, it’ll need to act quickly.
“The decision that the U.S. Department of Agriculture made to allow higher line speeds under the Clinton administration, the judge just didn’t think they had done a good enough job documenting the impact on worker safety,” Hayes says. “One outcome would be for the USDA to appeal and ask for some time to document the impact on worker safety, if any.”
The National Pork Producers Council is urging the U-S-D-A to appeal the decision. N-P-P-C president Jen Sorenson says the lives of many hog farmers will be upended if the ruling takes effect.
PAUL DORY, 91, of Bridgewater, died Sept. 2020. A Memorial service for PAUL DORY will be held 11-a.m. Saturday JUNE 5TH, at Trinity Christian Church in Bridgewater.
A luncheon will be held after the service.
JOHN EDWIN SHEER, 73, of Bayard died Thursday, May 27th at home. A graveside service for JOHN SHEER will be held on Tuesday, June 1, 2021 at 10:00 A.M. at Highland Township Cemetery near Bayard. Dahn and Woodhouse Funeral Home in Coon Rapids is handling the arrangements.
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Memorials may be mailed to: The family of John Sheer, P.O. Box 20, Bayard, IA 50029.
Online condolences may be left for the family at www.dahnandwoodhouse.com
JOHN EDWIN SHEER is survived by:
Wife: Diana of Bayard.
Daughter: Jennifer Lloyd of Bayard
Brother: Wayne Sheer of Davenport.
Sisters-in-law: Janet Sheer of Kempner, TX and Debbie Smouse of Carroll.
Brother-in-law: Robert Kinnick of Grand Junction
3 Grandchildren
and several aunts, uncles, nieces, nephews, and cousins.
Today: Mostly cloudy w/areas of drizzle this morning. High 59. N @ 10-20.
Tonight: Clearing skies & diminishing winds. Low 35.
Tomorrow: Mostly sunny. High 68. E @ 5-10.
Sunday: Mo. Cloudy. High 66.
Monday (Memorial Day): Mo. Cldy w/a chance of rain. High 68.
Thursday’s High in Atlantic was 73. Our Low this morning (as of 4:55-a.m.,) was 45. We received a trace of precipitation this morning, in the form of drizzle. Last year on this date, the High in Atlantic was 81 and the Low was 47. The Record High was 97 in 2018. The Record Low was 29, in 1894.