Monday (11/02/2015)

CLASS 4A:

Bettendorf 43, Iowa City, West 18
Cedar Rapids, Kennedy 49, North Scott, Eldridge 7
Cedar Rapids, Washington 42, Cedar Rapids, Jefferson 21
Dowling Catholic, WDM 50, Southeast Polk 21
Iowa City, City High 13, Pleasant Valley 7
Johnston 28, Ankeny Centennial 10
Lewis Central 17, Ankeny 7
Valley, West Des Moines 42, Waukee 7

CLASS 3A:

Assumption, Davenport 48, Maquoketa 0
Dallas Center-Grimes 31, Ballard 7
Decorah 30, Xavier, Cedar Rapids 21
Norwalk 27, Gilbert 11
Pella 52, Creston 27
Sergeant Bluff-Luton 72, Carroll 47
Webster City 38, Boyden-Hull/Rock Valley 7
West Delaware, Manchester 37, Solon 14

CLASS 2A:

Albia 42, Mid-Prairie, Wellman 0
Anamosa 42, Williamsburg 14
Central Lyon/ George-Little Rock 28, East Sac County 0
Mount Vernon 41, Central Lee, Donnellson 28
North Fayette Valley 52, Hampton-Dumont 28
South Tama County, Tama 49, New Hampton 0
Spirit Lake 49, Estherville Lincoln Central 20
Waukon 42, Aplington-Parkersburg 21

CLASS 1A:

Dike-New Hartford 48, Panorama, Panora 7
Hinton 54, Underwood 35
Regina, Iowa City 35, Hudson 6
Saint Ansgar 19, South Winneshiek, Calmar 6
South Central Calhoun 35, Ridge View 17
Van Meter 26, Madrid 20
West Branch 42, Pella Christian 27
Western Christian, Hull 28, Pocahontas Area 7

CLASS A:

Akron-Westfield 26, Logan-Magnolia 21
B-G-M, Brooklyn 13, Lisbon 6
Bishop Garrigan, Algona 34, Grundy Center 6
Denver 57, Montezuma 14
Gladbrook-Reinbeck 28, Pleasantville 0
Lynnville-Sully 29, Winfield-Mt. Union 28
Mount Ayr 42, Colfax-Mingo 20
West Sioux, Hawarden 54, Lawton-Bronson 21

CLASS 8:

Central, Elkader 28, H-L-V, Victor 14
Colo-Nesco 51, Moravia 20
Don Bosco, Gilbertville 74, Turkey Valley, Jackson Junction 34
East Mills 58, Lenox 34
Glidden-Ralston 61, Fremont-Mills, Tabor 28
Marcus-Meriden-Cleghorn 62, Ar-We-Va, Westside 12
Newell-Fonda 28, Graettinger-Terril/Ruthven-Ayrshire 14
West Bend-Mallard 75, Janesville 45

The St. Louis Cardinals announced today that they have exercised their 2016 club option on left-handed pitcher Jaime Garcia and declined their 2016 club option on right-handed pitcher Jonathan Broxton.  The team also announced today that infielder Pete Kozma and catchers Ed Easley and Travis Tartamella have been outrighted off the team’s 40-man Major League roster.

Garcia, 29, was 10-6 with a 2.43 ERA in his 20 starts in 2015, going 7-2 from August 1 until season’s end.  The Cardinals were 10-2 in his 12 games started during that span.

Garcia has posted a 52-32 career mark with a 3.31 ERA in 126 career games pitched and his 3.25 ERA since 2010, when he finished 3^rd in National League Rookie of the Year voting, is 7^th best amongst all Major League lefties.

Broxton, 31, was 3-3 with a 2.66 ERA in 26 games pitched for the Cardinals following his acquisition on July 31 in a trade with Milwaukee.

Kozma, 27, appeared in 76 games for the Cardinals this past season while Easley, 29, and Tartamella, 27, both made their Major League debuts during the 2015 campaign.

North Carolina, which returns four starters and nine of its 10 top scorers from the team that reached the round of 16 in the NCAA Tournament, is No. 1 in The Associated Press’ preseason Top 25 for a record ninth time.

The Tar Heels received 35 first-place votes from the 65-member national media panel. Kentucky is ranked second with 10 No. 1 votes, followed by Maryland, which had 14 first-place votes, and Kansas, which was No. 1 on five ballots. Defending national champion Duke is fifth with Virginia, which got one first-place vote, sixth followed by Iowa State, Oklahoma, Gonzaga and Wichita State.

North Carolina was last a preseason No. 1 in 2011-12. They broke a tie for most preseason No. 1 rankings with UCLA.

AMES, Iowa (AP) — Iowa State’s offense never found a consistent identity under Mark Mangino. Five days after Mangino’s departure as offensive coordinator, the Cyclones discovered a personality that could work for them. It’s anchored by their surging running game.

Iowa State ran 54 times last weekend against Texas, one shy of its season high. The result was a 24-0 win that snapped a three-game losing skid and restored some confidence to a program that appeared to be teetering on the verge of collapse.