AMES, Iowa – Iowa State has signed Penn State transfer Rasir Bolton (RAHJ-sheer BOWL-ton), head coach Steve Prohm announced Wednesday.

“We are really excited to add Rasir to our program,” Prohm said. “He had a tremendous freshman year at Penn State and we are looking forward to seeing him continue to grow here at Iowa State. Rasir has a chance to be a terrific player for our program. We can’t wait to get him on campus and get to work this summer.”

Bolton, a 6-2 guard who recently completed his freshman season, will have three seasons to play at Iowa State. He was second in scoring for the Nittany Lions, averaging 11.6 points in 2018-19. The Petersburg, Virginia native shot 36.1 percent behind the arc, connecting on 52 three-pointers. He was the Big Ten Conference’s top free-throw shooter at 87.6 percent, making 92 of his 105 free throw attempts.

Bolton scored a career-high 27 points against Colgate and topped 20 points four times. Against Colgate, he connected on 7-of-9 three-pointers.

Bolton was honored with Penn State’s Academic Achievement Award.

He played his high school ball at Massanutten Military Academy (Va.), where he led the team to the nation’s No. 1 prep school ranking. He scored more than 2,000 career points as a prep and was a four-star player according to ESPN.

The Iowa High School Athletic Association announced on Wednesday that the 2019 Boys State Soccer Tournament is going to start on Friday instead of Thursday. The change is due to poor field conditions at Cownie Soccer Park in Des Moines due to the recent heavy rains.

Play is now set to take place May 31st, June 1st, and June 4th. Brackets are currently set for the same game times and field assignments as Wednesday.

Lewis Central is in the Class 2A field and is set to face Storm Lake at 2:45pm, now on Friday.

Take a look at the brackets here:

Class 3A | Class 2A | Class 1A

Baseball

MVAOCOU 7, Missouri Valley 1

Softball

Coon Rapids-Bayard 20, Glidden-Ralston 8
Des Moines Christian 14, Martensdale-St Marys 7
Grand View Christian 13, Moravia 1
Shenandoah 12, Griswold 2

Class 3A

Region 1

CB Thomas Jefferson 1, Sioux City North 0

Region 2

CB Abraham Lincoln 3, Sioux City East 1

Class 2A

Region 2

Winterset 8, Carlisle 2 (@ Earlham)

Class 1A

Region 2

St. Albert 8, Underwood 2

Region 3

North Polk 14, Grand View Christian 0
Panorama 3, Creston 2 (OT)
Des Moines Christian 5, Chariton 0
WCV-NV-AC 9, Clarke 0 (@ West Central Valley)

Red Oak’s Sophie Walker and two area doubles teams will continue play in the Championship bracket at Girls State Tennis on Thursday.

Walker won her opening two matches to step into the Semifinals on Thursday.  She defeated Kuemper Catholic’s Isabel Schwabe 6-2, 6-2 in the first round and then took down Brooke Jorgensen of Pella 6-4, 6-0 in the Quarterfinals. Next up is a Semifinal match against Anatta Charoenkul of Fairfield in the Semifinals at 10:00am.

Schwabe went to the Consolation bracket and lost to Casie Barba of Spirit Lake-Okoboji 6-3, 7-6. Macy Baker of Red Oak lost her first round singles match to Sofia Ordinteva of Saydel 6-2, 5-7, 6-0. She then went on to win her first round consolation match 7-5, 4-6, 1-0 over Margaret Harn of Columbus Catholic. Baker then fell in the Consolation Quarterfinals to Brooke Jorgensen of Pella 6-0, 6-0.

Glenwood’s duo of Brielle Smith and Brooklyn Taylor came out on top of their opening two matches, as did the Shenandoah doubles team of Nichole and Natalie Gilbert.

Smith and Taylor notched a 6-2, 3-6, 7-5 win over Kendall Evans and Josie Condon of Estherville-Lincoln Central in the first round. Then in the Quarterfinals they took a 6-1, 6-3 win over Katie Wichman and Sadie Hansen of Waverly-Shell Rock. They now move on to face Emily Jasper and Miyahko Coffey of Cedar Rapids Xavier in the Semifinals on Thursday at 10:00am.

Shenandoah’s Gilbert tandem beat Abby Davis and Megan Brock of Independence in the first round 6-1, 6-1. Then in the Quarterfinals the Fillies team took down Deseree Stubbe and CeJay Blakely of Clark 6-0, 6-1. They will face Taylor Hogan and Elysse Trost of Columbus Catholic in the Semifinals also at 10:00am on Thursday.

Kuemper Catholic’s doubles team of Samantha Schwarte and Abby Boes lost in the first round 6-3, 6-3 to Wichman and Hansen of Waverly-Shell Rock. They then won in their first round consolation match 6-3, 6-2 over Tess Paton and Destiney Gridley of Fairfield. The Knights tandem then lost in the Consolation Quarterfinals to Lauren Dilulio and Caroline Bush of Davenport Assumption 6-2, 6-0.

The WDM Valley Tigers won the Class 4A Girls State Golf Tournament at the Coldwater Golf Links in Ames. The Tigers shot a two-day total of +63, 631 and beat out Bettendorf for the win by 25 shots.

Pauge Hoffman of WDM Valley was the Individual Champion with a -5, 137 for the tournament. She won a tight battle with Shannyn Vogler of Bettendorf who finished just one shot back at 138. Hoffman’s rounds were 68-69. Vogler shot 71-67.

New Hampton took the team title at the Class 2A State Girls Golf Tournament at Ames Golf and Country Club. The Chickasaws notched a +86, 662 to run away with the win. Missouri Valley finished 10th with a +268, 844.

The Individual Champion was Morgan Weber of Dike-New Hartford who shot 73 and 74 to finish +3 147 for the tourney. She beat out Allison Nuss of New Hampton by one shot for the win. Kyle Carey of Van Meter finished 3rd with a 150 total.

Katie Schweers of Kuemper Catholic was the top area golfer, finishing 20th with a +36 180 for the event. She shot a first round of 87, followed by a 93 in the second round.

IOWA CITY, Iowa — The Big Ten and BIG EAST conferences jointly announced on Wednesday the pairings for the fifth annual Gavitt Tipoff Games, which will tipoff on eight campus sites on consecutive days the first full week of the college basketball season, Nov. 11-14.

The University of Iowa is scheduled to play DePaul on Monday, Nov. 11, on Mediacom Court at Carver-Hawkeye Arena in Iowa City. The Blue Demons posted a 19-17 overall record and finished runners-up of the College Basketball Invitational a year ago.

Scheduled through 2022, the Gavitt Tipoff Games is a unique early-season series named in honor of Dave Gavitt, founder of the BIG EAST and basketball visionary. This marks the third time Iowa will be participating in the Gavitt Games since the event was introduced in 2015. The Hawkeyes traveled to Marquette in 2015 and hosted Seton Hall in 2016.

This will be the fourth game between Iowa and DePaul and first meeting since 1995. Iowa won two of the previous three meetings in Chicago in 1938 (34-29) and in Moline, Illinois, in 1995 (97-86). DePaul edged the Hawkeyes in Chapel Hill, North Carolina, in 1956 (73-72).

Nine teams in the 2019 event advanced to the NCAA Tournament and won at least 20 games last season.

Tip times and television information will be released at a later date. Games will be televised on either FS1 or BTN.