The CAM Cougars baseball team got back in the winning groove on Wednesday night with a 13-2 win in 5 innings over the Audubon Wheelers.  After dropping their first two games of the season to ranked Class 2A opponents on Monday and Tuesday, the Cougars bounced back with a strong outing.

It was a close game early with a 1-1 score after 1 1/2 innings. Then the Cougars took advantage of some Audubon errors to take control. CAM score 2 runs in the bottom of the second when some miscommunication in shallow center led to a dropped potential final out by Audubon. CAM scored three more in the third as Ben Tibken made it in on a fielding error. Joe Kauffman and Cade Ticknor scored when a pickoff attempt to second by Ethan Klocke sailed into centerfield.

Then the Cougars really poured it on in the 4th with a 7 run frame. The barrage was highlighted by a three-run homerun from Cade Ticknor to left-center, his third round-tripper of the season. That inning pushed the lead to 13-2 and the Wheelers weren’t able to pull under the 10-run mercy rule in the 5th. After the game Ticknor talked about his homer.

Ticknor said this was a big game for the team to get back on track.

CAM improves to 11-2 on the season and have one more regular season tune-up on Friday at West Central Valley before starting District play on Saturday at home against Orient-Macksburg.

Audubon falls to 9-6 on the year and they will host Earlham on Thursday before they host Ar-We-Va in District action on Saturday.

The CAM Cougars host the Audubon Wheelers tonight in Anita and we’ll have coverage on KJAN.

The Cougars are 10-2 after their first two loses of the year earlier this week. The Wheelers are 9-5.

Chris Parks has the call on AM 1220, FM 101.1, and online at KJAN.com starting about 5:15 p.m. with the pregame and first pitch at 5:30 p.m.

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The Atlantic Trojans softball team completed their undefeated run through the Hawkeye 10 Conference on Tuesday night with an 8-3 win over Shenandoah. Coach Terry Hinzmann said going 10-0 in the conference was a goal for the squad from the outset of the season and now they made it a reality.

The Trojans took a while to get the bats going and were down 2-0 heading into the fourth. Atlantic would get two across to tie the game in the 4th. Then took the lead with 3 more runs in the 5th and put 3 insurance runs up in the 7th. Alyssa Derby had 2 hits and scored 3 runs. Olivia Engler had 2 hits and 3 RBI. She also had 8 strikeouts in the circle and allowed just 2 hits on the night.

Coach Hinzmann was proud of the way the girls bounced back after a slow start in the game.

Coach Hinzmann said Olivia’s strong performance in the circle allowed the bats time to get going.

The Trojans are now 14-1 overall on the season with one regular season game left at home against Missouri Valley on Thursday night. We’ll have that game on KJAN with pregame at about 7:15 p.m. and first pitch at 7:30 p.m.

DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) — The Des Moines School Board has voted to move forward on a nearly $20 million high school and middle school sports stadium in partnership with Drake University, despite pushback from some district patrons. The city’s school board unanimously approved on Tuesday design and rental agreements with Drake University and the design firm. All but $4.5 million of the stadium’s $19.5 million cost will come from state funds. Critics who spoke at Tuesday’s board meeting said the funding should go toward improving schools and existing stadiums.

The 4,000-seat stadium will be the home field for four of the district’s five high school football teams and will be home for all of the district’s soccer teams. Drake also will use the field for its soccer teams.

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Hawkeye Ten Conference 

• Lewis Central 10, Shenandoah 0
• Kuemper Catholic 12, Glenwood 9

Pride of Iowa Conference 

• Mount Ayr 3, Southeast Warren 2
• Martensdale-St. Marys 15, East Union 0

Missouri River Conference 

• Thomas Jefferson 13, Sioux City West 3
• Sioux City West 7, Thomas Jefferson 4
• Sergeant Bluff-Luton 11, LeMars 3
• Sergeant Bluff-Luton 6, LeMars 0
• Bishop Heelan Catholic 10, Sioux City East 1
• Bishop Heelan Catholic 3, Sioux City East 0

Non-Conference 

• Atlantic 2, Carroll 1 (8 inn) (Bodie Johnson belted a home run to tie the game and Gunner Kirchhoff had the walk-off RBI hit in the bottom of the eighth)
• Clarinda 11, Bedford 2
• Red Oak 15, Essex 0
• St. Albert 8, Treynor 4
• Harlan 5, Dallas Center-Grimes 4
• Underwood 7, CAM 3
• Woodbine 5, Missouri Valley 4
• IKM-Manning 7, Exira/Elk Horn-Kimballton 3
• Audubon 10, South Central Calhoun 0
• Panorama 19, Southwest Valley 1
• Webster City 6, Coon Rapids-Bayard 5

Hawkeye Ten Conference 

• Atlantic 8, Shenandoah 3 (Olivia Engler had two hits and four RBI while striking out eight, tossing a two-hitter. Alyssa Derby added two hits and scored three runs while Lauren Nicholas drove in two for Atlantic, who finishes the conference season undefeated.)
• Kuemper Catholic 15, Glenwood 4
• Creston 10, Lewis Central 5

Western Iowa Conference 

• Underwood 4, Missouri Valley 1

Pride of Iowa Conference 

• Southeast Warren 6, Mount Ayr 5
• Martensdale-St. Marys 9, East Union 3
• Wayne 9, Lenox 0

Missouri River Conference 

• Thomas Jefferson 7, Sioux City West 3
• Sioux City West 13, Thomas Jefferson 8
• Abraham Lincoln 5, Sioux City North 4
• Sioux City North 3, Abraham Lincoln 2
• LeMars 10, Sergeant Bluff-Luton 8
• Sergeant Bluff-Luton 10, LeMars 1
• Sioux City East 3, Bishop Heelan Catholic 0

Bluegrass Conference 

• Moulton-Udell 12, Diagonal 7

Non-Conference   

• Clarinda 5, Bedford 1
• Dallas Center-Grimes 11, Harlan 0
• Griswold 9, Southwest Valley 6
• Riverside 7, Sidney 1
• AHSTW 14, East Mills 0
• Audubon 10, South Central Calhoun 6
• Logan-Magnolia 3, MVAOCOU 2
• West Monona 8, West Harrison 0
• Carroll 11, Coon Rapids-Bayard 1
• River Valley 9, Ar-We-Va 0
• Alta-Aurelia 13, Whiting 1

Here is the latest Mid-America sports news from The Associated Press

UNDATED (AP) — Six years after spurning a possible $1 million payday to play baseball so he could pursue his passion for football, Kansas City Chiefs quarterback Patrick Mahomes struck gold with a record-breaking 10-year contract worth as much as $503 million. But Mahomes insists this deal was about more than money. Sure, the 24-year-old superstar wanted financial security. He also wanted stability in an organization, the freedom to play without worrying about contracts, to continue playing for a coach who helped him win the MVP Award in the 2018 season and the Super Bowl last season.

WASHINGTON (AP) — Baseball’s two World Series finalists canceled workouts because of coronavirus testing delays. The Washington Nationals and Houston Astros called off training camp practices Monday after not receiving test results from Friday. The St. Louis Cardinals also scrubbed their scheduled workout for similar reasons. General manager Mike Rizzo of the champion Nationals said it’s not safe to continue with camp without accurate and timely testing. Rizzo called on Major League Baseball to work quickly to resolve issues with its lab to keep the season from being at risk. Astros GM James Click speculated the July 4th holiday weekend contributed to the delay. MLB said it addressed delays caused by the holiday weekend and doesn’t expect them to continue.

KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) — A former police officer has been sentenced to four months in jail for causing a 2018 wreck that killed a Kansas teenager and injured two others outside the stadium where the Kansas City Chiefs play. Thirty-five-year-old Terrell Watkins was sentenced Tuesday for involuntary manslaughter and other charges in the October 2018 crash that killed 17-year-old Chandan Rajanna, of Overland Park, Kansas, and seriously injured Rajanna’s father and sister. Witnesses told police the van had been speeding and making numerous lane changes as it passed other vehicles in heavy pregame traffic. Investigators say at the time of the crash, Watkins was late for an off-duty security assignment at Arrowhead Stadium.

SOFTBALL

Hawkeye Ten Conference 

• Atlantic at Shenandoah
• Kuemper Catholic at Glenwood
• Lewis Central at Creston

Western Iowa Conference 

• Underwood at Missouri Valley

Pride of Iowa Conference 

• East Union at Martensdale-St. Marys
• Southeast Warren at Mount Ayr
• Wayne at Lenox

Other Games

• AHSTW at East Mills
• Bedford at Clarinda
• CB Abraham Lincoln at Sioux City North (DH)  
• Coon Rapids-Bayard at Carroll
• Griswold at Southwest Valley
• Harlan at Dallas Center-Grimes
• MVAOCOU at Logan-Magnolia
• River Valley at Ar-We-Va
• Sioux City West at CB Thomas Jefferson (DH)
• South Central Calhoun at Audubon
• West Monona at West Harrison

BASEBALL

Hawkeye Ten Conference 

• Kuemper Catholic at Glenwood
• Shenandoah at Lewis Central

Pride of Iowa Conference 

• East Union at Martensdale-St. Marys
• Southeast Warren at Mount Ayr

Other Games

• Carroll at Atlantic
• Bedford at Clarinda
• CB Abraham Lincoln at Sioux City North (DH)
• Coon Rapids-Bayard at Webster City
• Essex at Red Oak
• Exira/Elk Horn-Kimballton at IKM-Manning
• Harlan at Dallas Center-Grimes
• Panorama at Southwest Valley
• Sidney at Tri-Center
• Sioux City West at CB Thomas Jefferson (DH)
• South Central Calhoun at Audubon
• St. Albert at Treynor
• Underwood at CAM
• Woodbine at Missouri Valley

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