Hawkeye Ten 

Kuemper Catholic 12, Atlantic 4
Sioux City North 5, Lewis Central 4
Underwood 5, Harlan 0
Kuemper Catholic 5, Carroll 4

Western Iowa Conference

Riverside 18, Westwood 3

Rolling Valley Conference 

Ar-We-Va 4, Glidden-Ralston 2

Raccoon River Conference

Johnston 6, Boone 5
Winterset 14, Perry 0

The Riverside Bulldogs softball team won an 11-1 slow paced contest against the Westwood Rebels on Thursday night. Early on for Westwood they realized it would be a long evening against Riverside pitcher Peyton Schafer who had 2 walks and 2 strikeouts in the top of the 1st. In the bottom Riverside got on the board with a passed ball into the backstop with a runner on third to put them up 1-0. In the top of the 2nd, Westwood hit an extra base hit but again Schafer struck out 2 more batters and left Westwood scoreless. The Bulldogs then used that momentum in the bottom of the 2nd to score 3 runs from, 5 walks, and an RBI single off of Madison Kelley. Riverside was then up 4-0 heading into the top of the 3rd. The Rebels scoring troubles continued until the top of the 4th where they had back-to-back base hits to finally bring in a run. The game was at 5-1 heading into the bottom of the 4th where Riverside had an RBI single towards right field and boosting their lead to 6-1.

The Bulldogs finally brought the game home in the bottom of the 5th where they had 6 runs come in due to 2 hits by pitches, a walk, and 3 hits including Peyton Schafer’s Walk off single to end the game at 11-1 with the run rule being achieved. Riverside’s key factor on the night was the patience at the plate with 7 Bulldog batters being walked, 5 hit by a pitch, and 6 solid hits. Westwood’s best batter on the day was Kayla Gray hitting an RBI single with her two at bats.

Some of the strong performances for Riverside came from Peyton Schafer pitching 5 innings, having 1 earned run, 2 hits, 5 strikeouts, and 4 walks. Batting wise Schafer went 3-4 with 2 RBI’s and second baseman Kayden Schanck had an RBI Triple.

Riverside Head Coach Lacie Patterson the overall show by her team on the evening.

Riverside improves to 17-11 on the year thanks to their win and will head off to Essex on Monday. The Rebels now sit at 6-14 with their loss and travel to Sioux Central on Monday.

IRVING, Texas – The Big 12 Conference announced the schedule matrix with home and away opponents for the 2024-25 season Thursday morning. With four new members to the conference in 2024-25 for a total of 16 members, each team will play three opponents twice (home and away) and the remaining 12 opponents once.

Iowa State will play Kansas, Kansas State and UCF twice while hosting BYU, Colorado, Houston, TCU, Texas Tech and Utah. The Cyclones will travel to Arizona, Arizona State, Baylor, Cincinnati, Oklahoma State and West Virginia. Despite adding four new members each of the previous two seasons, Iowa State will only play in one new facility when the Cyclones travel to Arizona. ISU traveled to Arizona State in 1987 and 1994 and traveled to Cincinnati once in 2013.

Opponents were selected based on a combination of geography, historical results and a poll of the coaches to best balance the schedule in terms of travel and competitiveness. A full Big 12 schedule with dates and times will be released at a later date.

Iowa State’s full Big 12 schedule matrix can be found below and the full Big 12 schedule matrix can be viewed here.

Home and Away: Kansas, Kansas State, UCF

Home Only: BYU, Colorado, Houston, TCU, Texas Tech, Utah

Away Only: Arizona, Arizona State, Baylor, Cincinnati, Oklahoma State, West Virginia

IOWA CITY, Iowa — Former University of Iowa guard, Caitlin Clark, was named 2023-24 Big Ten Female Athlete of the Year, announced today by the Big Ten Conference Office.

Clark, from West Des Moines, Iowa, is the first Hawkeye to win the award in back-to-back years. She is also only the third repeat winner in Big Ten Conference history, joining Wisconsin’s Suzy Favor (1988, 1989, 1990) and Indiana’s Lilly King (2017, 2018).

She is also the third Hawkeye student-athlete to win the award, joining Kristy Gleason (field hockey, 1994) and Megan Gustafson (women’s basketball, 2019). She is also ninth women’s basketball student-athlete to win the award, joining Gustafson, Purdue’s Joy Holmes (1991), MaChelle Joseph (1992), Stephanie White (1999) and Katie Douglas (2001), Penn State’s Kelly Mazzante (2004), Ohio State’s Jessica Davenport (2007), and Minnesota’s Rachel Banham (2016).

It is the ninth time a Hawkeye (men’s or women’s student-athlete) has earned the Big Ten Athlete of the Year award, and the fourth time in the past six seasons. Iowa’s past winners include wrestlers Ed Banach (1983), Barry Davis (1985) and Brent Metcalf (2008), football player Chuck Long (1986), men’s basketball player Luka Garza (2021), Gleason, and Gustafson.

Clark won the 2024 Honda Cup on Monday and was named Collegiate Woman Athlete of the Year as by THE Collegiate Women Sports Awards (CWSA). She also won the 2024 Naismith, Wooden and Wade Trophies along with the Associated Press and USBWA Ann Drysdale Player of the Year honors.

She is also a three-time winner of the Nancy Lieberman Point Guard Award and is the first-ever three-time winner of the Dawn Staley Award. She also won the Honda Sport Award for Basketball in April.

Clark, who now plays for the WNBA’s Indiana Fever, is the NCAA basketball all-time leading scorer and the only player in NCAA Division I men’s or women’s basketball history to lead her conference in scoring and assists in four consecutive seasons. Clark led the nation in 10 different offensive categories, including averaging 31.6 points and 8.9 assists per game and also broke the NCAA women’s tournament scoring record during the Hawkeyes’ final NCAA Tournament run.

Off the court, she is a three-time First Team Academic All-American and was named the 2024 CSC Academic All-America of the Year.

The Big Ten Athletes of the Year are selected by a panel of conference media members from nominations submitted by each institution.

Hawkeye Ten 

Red Oak 2, Atlantic 0
Lewis Central 6, Shenandoah 4

Western Iowa Conference

Lenox 11, Audubon 0

Rolling Valley Conference 

CAM 19, Mount Ayr 10

Raccoon River Conference

Ballard 8, Carroll 2
Boone 8, #10 Bondurant-Farrar 6
Carlisle 2, ADM 1
#2 Dallas Center-Grimes 6, #1 North Polk 5

Pride of Iowa Conference 

Nodaway Valley 7, Wayne 6
Martensdale-St Marys 13, GMG 5

Hawkeye Ten 

#8 Clarinda 8, Harlan 1
#8 Clarinda 7, Harlan 2
Lewis Central 3, Shenandoah @ 1
Atlantic @ Red Oak – The game is Postponed til July 8th.

Western Iowa Conference

Logan-Magnolia 12, Stanton 0
#4 Audubon 12, Lenox 0

Rolling Valley Conference 

Ar-We-Va 9, IKM-Manning 6
Madrid 4, CAM 0

Corner Conference 

#13 Griswold 6, #7 West Monona 5
Bedford 13, Fremont-Mills 1

West Central Activities Conference 

#1 Van Meter 11, Saydel 0 (NC)
Ogden 6, Panorama 3
#10 Interstate-35  14, Pleasantville 4

Several Drake Relays regulars will be heading to the Paris Olympics this summer. The U-S Track and Field Olympic Trials wind down this weekend in Eugene, Oregon. Blake Boldon is director of the Drake Relays.

Boldon says three of the top four finishers in the men’s pole vault are regulars at the Drake Relays.

The Lenox Tigers baseball team had an 11-0 shutout victory against the Audubon Wheelers on Thursday night. From the first inning with a passed ball run to put the Tigers up 1-0, Audubon never looked comfortable throughout the evening. In the top of the 2nd Lenox acquired 3 runs from 3 walks, 2 batters hit by a pitch, and a RBI single to put them up 4-0 over the Wheelers. The downward trend continued for Audubon as they could only muster up 3 hits at the plate and showed signs of frustration during the entirety of the game. Things  completely tipped in favor for Lenox in the top of the 5th as they were leading 5-0. The inning started off strongly for Audubon as pitcher Brody Schultes retired the first two batters he faced. With one out to go, the Tigers stayed patient at the plate getting back-to-back walks to put two runners on and with an RBI single from Wylie Brokaw things started to fall apart for the Wheelers. Lenox had a total of 5 base hits and 3 walks to collect 6 runs and ultimately the win. Gabe Funk came out in the bottom of the 5th to retire the side and give the Tigers the run rule victory.

Lenox starting pitcher Gabe Funk had a nice day on the mound giving up no runs, 3 hits, 3 strikeouts, and 1 walk. Audubon’s best batter on the day was Carson Mike who had a walk and a base hit. Wheeler head coach Eric Borkowski’s message to his team after the game was learning how to accept making mistakes and continue to stay focused.

Coach Borkowski’s one positive takeaway from the game was the way his team was able to make solid contact with the ball.

One theme the that the Wheelers need to embrace is learning to overcome mistakes. If the Wheelers can, they can keep their heads up high with 4 games left on the regular season schedule.

The loss drops Audubon to 1-22-1 and they head to Martensdale-St. Mary’s on Monday. Lenox improves to 16-6 with the victory and will play Central Decatur on Friday.

The Iowa Girls High School Athletic Union released the full list of all regional postseason softball matchups for 2024.

Below is the link for the full brackets page of all classes:

https://www.gobound.com/ia/ighsau/softball/2023-24/brackets