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Chris Carpenter realizes his baseball career may be over. The 37-year-old right-hander made a surprise appearance at the St. Louis Cardinals’ spring-training camp Monday and said he’s still dealing with numbing and tingling sensations in his pitching hand, arm and shoulder. Asked if he wanted to continue pitching, the former Cy Young Award winner said, “I do. I just don’t think I can.”
DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) — The Iowa State women’s basketball team is headed to the NCAA tournament for the seventh year in a row. The Cyclones are a No. 5 seed, but they will have to face 12th-seeded Gonzaga on the road on Saturday. The winner will play either fourth-seeded Georgia or Montana. Iowa State has won 23 games so far this year. The Cyclones finished second in the Big 12 regular season standings and in the conference tournament, falling to top-seeded Baylor 75-47.
Iowa State has dropped its last two first-round games in the NCAA tournament. The Cyclones lost to Wisconsin-Green Bay in the opening round in 2012. Gonzaga has reached the regional semifinals in each of the last three seasons.
DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) — The Iowa women’s basketball team has earned a berth in the NCAA tournament for the sixth year in a row. The Hawkeyes (20-12) are a No. 9 seed and will host eighth-seeded Miami (21-10) on Sunday. The winner will likely face No. 1 seed Notre Dame on Tuesday in Carver-Hawkeye Arena.
The Fighting Irish face 16th-seeded Tennessee-Martin in the other first-round matchup Sunday in Iowa City. Iowa has been inconsistent all season, winning seven straight at one point and also losing five in a row. But the Hawkeyes also beat six ranked opponents and finished with a strong RPI. Notre Dame (31-1) is the Big East champion. The Irish, whose only loss is to No. 1 Baylor, beat Connecticut for the league title.
The Atlantic boys biggest highlights include Kray Lukehart placing 3rd of 66 in the long jump with jump of 20′-06″, Kray placing 14th of about 300 in the 55 meter dash with a time of 6.74 seconds. Alec Hayes tied for 11th place in the high jump with a best of five feet eight inches and Skylar Svoboda placing 20th of 132 in the shot with a throw of 41′-06″.
The Atlantic Girls’ Track team opened the season with an indoor meet at Central College in Pella, on Saturday, March 16th. Thirteen AHS girls competed in events throughout the day. Over 30 schools from across the state were in attendance at the meet, with two schools from the Hawkeye 10 represented (Atlantic and Creston). I was very pleased with the results of the competition. We turned in some great finishes in the field events this year for the first meet of the season, especially considering how limited our time outdoors working on them has been due to weather. Tetta Askeland opened the year with 28′ in the shot, enough for a 34th place finish in the shot (improving over a foot from last year’s indoor meet) and Darien Mills opened with a 44th place finish and a distance of 26’11”. Tiffany Williams came out impressively in the high jump with a jump of 4’8″, matching her best jump from last year and clearing each height on the first attempt. On the distance races, Savannah Sorensen placed 11th in the 3000m with a time of 12.58.53 and Justice Parker finished in 22nd. Parker also placed 42nd in the 1500m. In the 55m, Kristin Johnk improved her time from last years indoor meet, finishing 33rd with a time of 7.91s. Other finishes in the 55m included Brandi Smith, Erin Shannon, and Tori Phippen. Aly Siggins was our leader in the 55m hurdles, with a time of 11.21, with Laeni Pelzer and Brandi Smith finishing as well. The 4×800 team of Aly Siggins, Macey Schmitt, Brie Steffens, and Tiffany Williams finished competitively at 11th with a time of 11.32.00. The 4×200 team of Williams, Smith, Shannon, and Johnk finished 30th, and the 4×400 team of Steffens, Schmitt, Sorensen, and Williams finished 34th. In the open 400m, Siggins ran for 20th place and in the 200m Johnk was the leader with a time of 30.92. Other runners in the 200m included Phippen, Pelzer, Sorensen, Shannon, Steffens, and Schmitt. This indoor meet was a good opportunity to get us out on the track and really see where we are going to be at this year and what we need to work on. We were able to see some competition from the H10 (Creston) and also match up against some teams we don’t usually see throughout the year. It was impressive to see how times have dropped for the girls who competed last year, and now we have a better base to go off of for our newer team members. We will continue working on adjusting our lineup and some of our relays to find the best combinations of girls for each event in order to drop times and finish competitively at the upcoming H10 meets. The next meet for the AHS girls will be Tuesday, March 26th, in Carroll for the H-10 ND meet at 4:30pm. (courtesy of Carrie BreDahl, head girls track coach)
Iowa has earned a No. 3 seed in the National Invitational Tournament and will host Indiana State on Wednesday. The Hawkeyes (21-12) missed out on their first NCAA tournament bid in seven years after losing to Michigan State 59-56 on Friday night. Though Iowa won 10 Big Ten games, its lack of quality non-conference and road victories proved to be its undoing. Iowa is back in the NIT for the second year in a row. The Hawkeyes beat Dayton before losing at Oregon last season. Indiana State (18-14) finished 9-9 in the Missouri Valley but lost three of its last four.
DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) — Iowa State has earned a No. 10 seed in the NCAA tournament and will face Notre Dame in Dayton, Ohio on Friday. The Cyclones (22-11), led by third-year coach Fred Hoiberg, have earned back-to-back NCAA tournament bids for the first time in 12 years. Iowa State solidified its spot in the field by sweeping Oklahoma State and West Virginia to close out the regular season. The Cyclones then rallied to beat Oklahoma in the Big 12 tournament before falling to Kansas. Iowa State beat Connecticut in last year’s NCAAs before falling to eventual national champion Kentucky.
JUPITER, Fla. (AP) — Ricky Nolasco returned to top form with six sharp innings and Giancarlo Stanton returned from the World Baseball Classic to help the Miami Marlins beat the St. Louis Cardinals 6-0 on Sunday. The Marlins likely opening day starter gave up seven runs on eight hits in three innings Tuesday against Houston. He was back on track Sunday, striking out five and scattering six hits. He did not walk a batter.
Stanton was back in the lineup after the United States was eliminated in the WBC. Batting third, the Marlins’ star right fielder doubled, singled and walked in four plate appearances. St. Louis starter Lance Lynn was ineffective for 3 2-3 innings, giving up nine hits and five runs.
JUPITER, Fla. (AP) — Shawn Hill allowed one hit in four innings, and Matt Tuiasosopo hit a long homer to lead the Detroit Tigers over the St. Louis Cardinals 3-0 Saturday. Hill, likely to start the season at Triple-A, struck out thee and walked one. Bruce Rondon, Jose Alvarez and Luke Putkonen finished the four-hitter as the Cardinals were shut out for the third time in six games. Left-hander Jaime Garcia gave up all three runs and six hits in five innings for the Cardinals.
Nick Castellanos’ RBI double with two outs in the fourth put Detroit ahead, and Tuiasosopo homered leading off the fifth. Ramon Santiago hit a sacrifice fly later in the inning. Rondon made his fourth consecutive scoreless appearance, striking out Oscar Taveras, Ty Wigginton and Ronny Cedeno around Tony Cruz’s walk in the fifth. Rondon, a possible closer, had allowed three runs over consecutive outings on March 1 and 3.
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