ST. LOUIS (AP) – The Cardinals were eliminated from postseason contention when Leonys Martin leaped at the center-field fence to rob Paul DeJong of a tying home run with two outs in the 11th inning, preserving the Chicago Cubs’ 2-1 win over St. Louis on Thursday night.

St. Louis, which went 5-14 against its rival, missed the playoffs in consecutive seasons for the first time since 2007 and 2008. At 82-77, the Cardinals are assured their fewest wins since going 78-84 in 2007.

A day after clinched their second straight NL Central title, the defending World Series champions started only two position players who had played in at least 100 games: outfielders Ian Happ and Kyle Schwarber.

Schwarber singled off Matt Bowman (3-6) with one out in the 11th and Davis, who struck out in his first three at-bats, hit a run-scoring double down the left-field line.

Jen-Ho Tseng (1-0) pitched three hitless innings.

Friday (09/29/2017)

CLASS 4A:

District 2

Ankeny Centennial at Council Bluffs, Abraham Lincoln

District 3

Council Bluffs, Thomas Jefferson at Ankeny
Lewis Central at Des Moines, Hoover

CLASS 3A:

District 7

Atlantic at Glenwood
Denison-Schleswig at ADM
Harlan at Carroll
Winterset at Creston/O-M

CLASS 2A:

District 7

Clarinda at Red Oak
Kuemper Catholic at South Central Calhoun
Shenandoah at East Sac County
Southeast Valley at Underwood

CLASS 1A:

District 6

Eagle Grove at Panorama
Manson Northwest Webster at Van Meter
South Hamilton at Madrid
West Central Valley at Ogden

District 7

IKM-Manning at AHSTW
Logan-Magnolia at Tri-Center, Neola
OA-BCIG at Missouri Valley
Treynor at ACGC

CLASS A:

District 7

Griswold at Southeast Warren
Nodaway Valley at Southwest Valley
Riverside, Oakland at Earlham
St. Albert, Council Bluffs at Martensdale-St. Marys

CLASS 8:

District 6

East Union at Stanton
Murray at Bedford
Wayne at Lamoni

District 7

Clarinda Academy at Fremont-Mills
Essex at CAM
Sidney at East Mills
Woodbine at Exira/Elk Horn-Kimballton

District 8

Boyer Valley at Audubon
Collins-Maxwell at Glidden-Ralston (ND)
River Valley at Ar-We-Va
West Harrison at Coon Rapids-Bayard

The Atlantic Trojans are hoping to carry some momentum from their exciting Homecoming win over Creston Orient-Macksburg into this week’s contest at Glenwood (4-1). The Trojans (3-2) will be on the other end of a Homecoming game this week as the road team for Glenwood’s festivities. Atlantic gutted out an overtime win over Creston O-M last week and found a way to get the ball to their play-makers on the edges.

Atlantic Head Coach Mike McDermott said that will be a key again this week against a tough Glenwood defense.

Glenwood Head Coach Cory Faust said in order to slow down the Trojan offense his team will need to tackle well in open space.

When the Rams have the ball, Coach McDermott says the Trojans will have to play disciplined and be ready to slow down Glenwood quarterback Andrew Blum.

Coach Faust said his team is playing well right now but they know they need to be ready to give their best effort against Atlantic.

We’ll have coverage of the game on KJAN Friday night. Chris Parks and Mike Smith will have the call on AM1220, FM101.1, online at kjan.com, and on the KJAN Mobile App. You can also catch live streaming video on KJANTV. Catch a full interview with Coach McDermott on Trojan Preview at 4:45pm Friday. Our pick ’em show Who’s Gonna Win? gets the night started at 6:00pm followed by pregame at 6:30pm and kickoff at 7:30pm.