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Cole McDonald pitched eight innings while striking out nine and Iowa scored three runs in the top of the seventh inning as the Hawkeyes upset top seeded Indiana 4-2 in the opening round of the Big Ten Tournament in Omaha.

Iowa plays Nebraska in the late game tonight (Thursday night). We’ll have coverage on KJAN on the Hawkeye Radio Network. Pregame is scheduled for 8:30pm with First Pitch at 9:00pm.

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

OMAHA, Neb. (AP) — Spencer Schwellenbach’s bases-loaded double highlighted Nebraska’s five-run third inning and the fifth-seeded Cornhuskers went on to beat No. 4 seed Minnesota 8-2 in the Big Ten Tournament. Matt Waldron scattered six singles, walked none and struck out nine in 7 1/3 innings as the Cornhuskers won for the fifth time in six games. They’ll play Iowa on Thursday night. Minnesota meets top-seeded Indiana in an elimination game.

ST. LOUIS (AP) — Marcell Ozuna and Matt Carpenter went deep as part of a four-homer barrage and the St. Louis Cardinals split a doubleheader with the Kansas City Royals by winning the second game 10-3. Adam Wainwright (4-4) battled through control issues with 55 of his 103 pitches going for strikes. The Royals beat the Cardinals 8-2 in the first game.

UNDATED (AP) — The Bruins and Blues will meet in the Stanley Cup Final, a rematch of the 1970 series that ended with Bobby Orr’s famous goal and leaping celebration. Boston has been in the final three times in the past nine seasons, but this is St. Louis’ first trip in 49 years. Unlike that series, this one is expected to be much more evenly matched.

BOSTON (AP) — The Boston Bruins have watched the Red Sox win two World Series since their last Stanley Cup title. The Patriots have won the Super Bowl three times since Zdeno Chara brought the Cup back in 2011. In Boston lately, that’s quite a championship drought. The Bruins are hoping to end it with a victory over the St. Louis Blues for the NHL title.

KEY BISCAYNE, Fla. (AP) — NFL owners gave the competition committee the go-ahead Wednesday to decide whether to refine the new rule allowing replay challenges involving pass interference. The proposed tweak would take the decision on whether to review in the final two minutes of each half out of the hands of the officials. Owners voted to hold the NFL draft in Cleveland in 2021 and in Kansas City in 2023.

IOWA CITY, Iowa (AP) — Iowa has hired former Lehigh and Ball State head coach Billy Taylor to be an assistant on Fran McCaffery’s staff. The Hawkeyes say that Taylor, who spent three years as the director of basketball operations in Iowa City from 2014-16, will replace Andrew Francis. Francis left Iowa for a position with California.

Baseball

Atlantic 12, Logan-Magnolia 3 (Baylee Newell led the Trojans 14 hit attack with 3 RBI. Alyssa Derby had 4 RBI and McKenzie Waters had 3 RBI. Olivia Engler picked up the win in the circle with 7 strikeouts and 1 walk, allowing just 4 hits.)
Ar-We-Va 14, Boyer Valley 3
Audubon 13, Riverside 0
Bishop Heelan Catholic, Sioux City 15, CB Abraham Lincoln 5 (5 innings)
CAM 10, West Harrison 4 (Mithcell Williamson had a three-run homer. Kolby Nelson, Colby Rich, and Jacob Holste all notched two hits. Isaac Bower struck out 6 in a complete game on the mound.)
Creston 5, Southwest Valley 4 (9 innings)
Coon Rapids-Bayard 12, Exira-EHK 2
CB Abraham Lincoln 6, Bishop Heelan Catholic, Sioux City 5
Stanton 4, Nodaway Valley 3

Softball

Atlantic 13, Missouri Valley 0 (5 innings) (The Trojans put up 8 runs in the opening inning and got two hits each from Colin Mullenix and Brody O’Brien. O’Brien drove in 3 runs and Joe Weaver brought in 2.)
Ar-We-Va 12, Boyer Valley 8
Coon Rapids-Bayard 7, Exira-EHK 1
Creston 16, Southwest Valley 1
Denison-Schleswig 11, CB Abraham Lincoln 0
Glidden-Ralston 13, St. Mary’s, Storm Lake 3
Nodaway Valley 14, Stanton 4
Orient-Macksburg 15, Moulton-Udell 7
Ridge View 11, OABCIG 1
Riverside 7, Audubon 4
Treynor 2, Logan-Magnolia 1
West Harrison 3, CAM 0
West Monona 15, MVAOCOU 0

Substate Semifinals were contested in all classes of boys soccer on Wednesday night. Here is a look at scores involving area teams.

CLASS 1A

AHSTW 2, Underwood 1 (PK’s 2-0)
Greene County 2, Riverside 1
Nevada 4, Creston 1
Western Christian 5, Treynor 0

CLASS 2A:

ADM 4, Newton 2
Dallas Center-Grimes 3, Winterset/Earlham 0
Harlan 2, Denison-Schleswig 1
Lewis Central 1, Perry 0

CLASS 3A:

Urbandale 4, Council Bluffs, Abraham Lincoln 0

The Iowa Hawkeye Baseball team is playing Indiana tonight in the opening round of the Big Ten Baseball Tournament at TD Ameritrade Park in Omaha. We planned on airing this first game of the tourney for the Hawkeyes for you on KJAN but the postponement of the Cardinals vs. Royals game from Tuesday to tonight will prevent that. We still plan on bringing you the Hawks game tomorrow at the tourney which will either be at 12:30pm or 8:30pm depending on tonight’s outcome. Take a look at the tournament bracket below.

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ST. LOUIS (AP) — Brad Keller pitched seven-plus innings of two-hit baseball, Jorge Soler hit a three-run homer and the Kansas City Royals beat the St. Louis Cardinals 8-2 Wednesday in the first game of a doubleheader.

Severe storms around St. Louis forced Tuesday night’s game to be postponed and created the day-night twinbill.

Keller (3-5) snapped a six-start winless streak. He pitched around leadoff walks in the first, second and fourth innings and had retired 12 of 13 batters before Matt Carpenter walked and Paul Goldschmidt singled to start the eighth, ending Keller’s day.

Keller matched his longest outing of the season. He struck out three, walked four and hit two batters.

Kevin McCarthy relieved and gave up a two-run double to Marcell Ozuna. The Cardinals finished with four hits, two by Matt Wieters.

Soler’s drive into the left field seats off Michael Wacha (3-2) capped a six-run third and made it 7-0. Wacha has allowed 18 earned runs and 30 hits in 25 1/3 innings in five starts since returning from the injured list with left knee patellar tendinitis.

Whit Merrifield had two hits, drove in a run and scored once. Nicky Lopez reached three times and scored twice and Hunter Dozier hit a pair of sacrifice flies.

UP NEXT
RHP Homer Bailey (4-4, 5.36 ERA) will get the start for the Royals in the nightcap against RHP Adam Wainwright (3-4, 4.75 ERA). Bailey is 5-16 with a 5.56 ERA against St. Louis. Wainwright will be facing Kansas City for the first time since 2016.

IOWA CITY, Iowa — University of Iowa men’s basketball player Joe Wieskamp announced on Wednesday that he has withdrawn his name from the 2019 NBA Draft and will return for his sophomore season.

“I am excited to announce that I will be returning to the University of Iowa for my sophomore season,” said Wieskamp. “I learned a lot of valuable information going through the NBA Draft process that will help me continue to grow now, and in the future when I decide to take that next step. But for now, my focus is helping this Iowa team be the best that we can be. The future is bright! Go Hawks!”

Wieskamp (6-foot-6, 205 pounds) was second in the Big Ten Conference in 3-point accuracy (.424, 59-of-139), and ranked third on the Hawkeyes in scoring (11.1 ppg) and steals (32), and second in rebounding (4.9 rpg) last season as a freshman.

“We are happy to have Joe back for his sophomore season,” said Iowa head coach Fran McCaffery. “I’m glad that Joe had the opportunity to go through the process and receive feedback from NBA personnel. I’m incredibly proud of the professional approach Joe took during this process. This experience provided him feedback on what he needs to work on as he strives to reach his full potential and play at the highest level. Joe is a valuable member of our team on and off the court, and we look forward to him being a leader for us next season.”

Turkey hunters reported harvesting nearly 11,400 Iowa birds this spring through the mandatory registration system, which is about 300 birds fewer than were harvested in 2018. Iowa’s spring turkey seasons began April 5 with the youth season and ended on May 12. Hunters purchased 47,400 spring turkey tags.

Photo courtesy of the Iowa DNR.

Iowans can help the DNR with its annual turkey production estimates by reporting all the turkeys seen during the months of July and August. The DNR will have a link to the survey on its website before it begins on July 1, where Iowans can provide the date and county in which the turkey was seen, if it was an adult female or adult male (males have beards on their breast), and whether there are young poults (baby turkeys).

Annual production surveys conducted by the DNR are an important component of the species management plans, which includes providing hunting opportunities.  Anyone seeing turkeys is encouraged to participate in this online survey.