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2024 State Track and Field Meet begins Thursday; Catch full coverage on KJAN

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May 15th, 2024 by Asa Lucas

The 2023 State Track and Field Meet will fire up on Thursday and run through championship events on Saturday at Drake Stadium in Des Moines. We’ll have coverage throughout the event on KJAN. Thursday and Friday’s schedule will have Class 2A and 3A athletes competing in the morning session beginning at 9:00 a.m. and Class 1A and 4A athletes in the afternoon session that begins at 2:40 p.m. Saturday’s championship schedule will be all classes starting at 9:00 a.m. Check out the full schedule HERE 

You can check out heat and lane assignments at the following links:

We’ll have live updates on-air throughout each day of the event and continuous updates on our sports page. Check out the full rundown of our report times below.

Thursday, May 18

10:45 am – 11:45 am – 1:45 pm – 2:45 pm – 3:45 pm – 4:45 pm – 5:45 pm – 6:45 pm

Friday, May 19

10:45 am – 11:45 am – 1:45 pm – 2:45 pm – 3:45 pm – 4:45 pm – 5:45 pm – 6:45 pm

Saturday, May 20

9:45 am – 10:45 am – 11:45 am – 12:45 pm – 1:45 pm – 2:45 pm – 3:45 pm – 4:45 pm

High School Baseball Scores from Tuesday

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May 15th, 2024 by Asa Lucas

Hawkeye Ten 

Kuemper Catholic 9, Treynor 4
Creston 1, Winterset 0
Lewis Central 7, Shenandoah 0

Western Iowa Conference 

Missouri Valley 15, Red Oak 7

Rolling Valley Conference

Ankeny Christian 4, Coon Rapids-Bayard 0

Corner Conference

Southwest Valley 11, Fremont-Mills 1
Griswold 11, Audubon 1

Raccoon River Conference

Dowling Catholic 12, ADM 2
Waukee Northwest 1, North Polk 0
North Polk 6, Waukee Northwest 1
Bondurant-Farrar 10, Pella 3

High School Soccer Scores from Tuesday

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May 15th, 2024 by Asa Lucas

Substate Boys Scores

Class 1A

Marquette Catholic 5, Highland 1
Mid-Prairie 3, Sigourney Keota 0

Class 3A

LeMars 6, Spirit Lake 0
Winterset 11, Atlantic 1
Iowa Falls-Alden 4, Forth Dodge 2
North Scott 10, Clinton 0
Sioux City West 8, Council Bluffs Jefferson 0
Western Dubuque 10, Northeast Iowa United 0

Class 4A

Cedar Rapids Kennedy 3, Cedar Rapids Jefferson 1
Davenport Central 4, Davenport West 0
Des Moines Lincoln 2, Waukee 0
Marshalltown 3, Mason City 0

Regular Season Scores

Council Bluffs Lincoln 5, Glenwood 1

Girls Scores

Regular Season Scores

ADM 5, Boone 1
Dallas Center-Grimes 4, Indianola 0

Iowa’s Lisa Bluder on her decision to retire

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May 15th, 2024 by Ric Hanson

Lisa Bluder says she never seriously considered retirement until this past season was over. Bluder announced her retirement Monday after 24 season’s as women’s basketball coach at Iowa. It included 18 trips to the NCAA Tournament and back-to-back appearances in the NCAA title game. Bluder made an appearance on Tuesday night at a Polk County I-Club event in West Des Moines.

Bluder says she started thinking about the future after the season ended.

Bluder says she is going to miss being part of a team.

Bluder’s long-time assistant Jan Jensen has been named the new head coach.

Bluder says the time was right for Jensen to become a head coach.

Jensen will have a news conference in Iowa City this (Wednesday) afternoon.

Another Iowa football game may be moved to Friday night

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May 15th, 2024 by Ric Hanson

Iowa football coach Kirk Ferentz hinted that a second game this upcoming season is being moved to Friday night. The Hawkeyes already have their annual Black Friday game scheduled at home against Nebraska.

The Hawkeyes played at Maryland on a Friday night in 2021 and Ferentz does not like the idea of infringing on high school football.

Ferentz made his comments at a Polk County I-Club event in West Des Moines.

Megan Franklin introduced as new AD at Northern Iowa

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May 15th, 2024 by Ric Hanson

Megan Franklin was introduced as the new director of athletics at Northern Iowa. Franklin had been the senior associate AD at Drake for the past 12 years and also had a nine-year stint at Virginia Tech. She was impressed with the family atmosphere at UNI.

Franklin says UNI ranks at the top of the Missouri Valley Conference in several categories.

Franklin says in this era of the transfer portal and N-I-L increased fundraising becomes even more important.

Franklin says her job is to help the coaches and athletes succeed.

Atlantic Trojans Boys Soccer Team Suffers Loss In First Round of Substate Playoffs

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May 15th, 2024 by Seth Tiegs

The Atlantic Trojans boys soccer team lost 11-1 in the first round of the Class 3A-Substate 5 playoffs on Tuesday night. Winterset scored the first nine goals of the game until Atlantic’s senior Taye Jordan got the Trojans on the scoreboard with less than 15 minutes left to play in the first half.

The second half was a defensive battle until Winterset tacked on two more goals to secure the win for the Huskies.

Trojans coach Mark Andersen talked about trying their best to battle back in the match despite allowing up to nine goals in the first half.

The Trojans made adjustments in the second half according to coach Andersen.

Atlantic senior Trahyger Carey gave his thoughts on his final match as a Trojan.

This loss for the Trojans will end their season. The Trojans ended the season with a 3-13 overall record and went 0-7 in the Hawkeye Ten Conference

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Tuesday High School Girls Tennis Results

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May 14th, 2024 by Asa Lucas

IOWA CLASS 1A REGION 1

Bishop Heelan Catholic 5, Cherokee 3 

Spencer 5, Denison-Schleswig 1 

Denison-Schleswig winner: Abigail Gutierrez 

Spencer 5, Bishop Heelan Catholic 4 

IOWA CLASS 1A REGION 2

Clarinda 5, Lewis Central 2 (Qualified for State with Win)

IOWA CLASS 1A REGION 3

Kuemper Catholic 5, North Polk 4 (Qualified for State with Victory)

IOWA CLASS 2A REGION 1

Dowling Catholic 5, Thomas Jefferson 0

CAM Cougars Baseball Season Preview with Coach Drew Ticknor

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May 14th, 2024 by Seth Tiegs

The CAM Cougars baseball team will be playing their next game right around the corner. The Cougars are coming off a 9-13 overall and 6-8 Rolling Valley Conference record from last season.

CAM will be heading the road for their first two games, when they travel to Southwest Valley and East Mills to start the season. The Cougars first home game of the season won’t be until May 28th, when they host Logan Magnolia.

The season has been fast approaching according to coach Drew Ticknor

Coach Ticknor comments on what it was like in their rebuilding year last season.

The Cougars will be bringing back the same roster as they didn’t lose anyone to graduation from last year.

Coach Tickner talked about his teams main goals for this season.

The Cougars next baseball game will be Tuesday May 21st, when they will travel to Southwest Valley in a non-conference matchup. First pitch of that game will be at 7:30 p.m.

 

ISU Releases Complete 2024 Soccer Schedule

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May 14th, 2024 by Asa Lucas

AMES, Iowa – Iowa State and head coach Matt Fannon announced the 2024 soccer schedule Tuesday afternoon. The 2024 slate is highlighted by a program-high 12 home games – plus a home exhibition game – to go along with seven road contests.

The Cyclones will play eight non-conference games this year, with six coming at the Cyclone Soccer Complex, as part of the 19-game schedule. The schedule includes a lone exhibition match and is capped with 11 league games. ISU will meet up with seven teams that qualified for the 2023 College Cup in 2024 – four in the non-conference and three in Big 12 play – with BYU having made it to the semifinals last season.

The 2024 season unofficially begins on Aug. 7, when the Cyclone welcome Minnesota to Ames for an exhibition contest, making it the third straight season the two teams have met for preseason play. The season officially gets underway on Thursday, Aug. 15, with Western Illinois coming to town. ISU and WIU will meet for the fourth time and the first time since 2013, when the Cyclones won 2-0.

Following the season lid-lifter, Iowa State will remain at the CSC for a game with the Creighton Bluejays on Aug. 18 before hitting the road for its first away contest of the season. ISU’s first road trip will be a short one, as the team is set to head to Des Moines on Aug. 22 for a date with Drake in the state’s capital. A week later, on Aug. 29, the Cyclones will be visited by Saint Louis, the first of seven 2023 College Cup participants on the schedule.

The Cyclones will continue to play 2023 postseason qualifiers, as their next two games – at Memphis (9/1) and vs. Michigan (9/5) – will also be against teams that made last season’s College Cup. Iowa State concludes its non-conference slate in mid-September, with a pair of home games sandwiched around the Big 12 opener on the road.

ISU and Northern Colorado will meet on Sept. 8 before the Cyclones embark on their third road trip of the season, the conference opener at Kansas (9/12). Following a one-off game in Lawrence, ISU returns to the Cyclone Sports Complex to cap the non-conference slate against in-state foe Iowa on Sept. 15 as part of the Iowa Corn Cy-Hawk Series.

The Cyclones will then host UCF in the home conference opener (9/19). The Cyclones will remain in Ames to face off with old Big 12 foe Colorado on 9/22 in the teams’ first meeting since 2018, when they played as part of a non-conference schedule.

ISU is back in action the following Thursday as it heads to Salt Lake City for the first-ever meeting with the Utah Utes (9/26). The Cyclones wrap their two-game road trip in Provo, taking on the BYU Cougars to close out September (9/30). The Cyclones open October play on the sixth, welcoming Kansas State to town. The team will remain in Ames as Cincinnati makes its first-ever appearance in Ames on 10/10.

In its final road trip of the season, Iowa State heads south to face off with defending league champs Texas Tech (10/13) and Oklahoma State (10/17). The conference schedule concludes at the Cyclone Sports Complex with TCU (10/20) and Baylor (10/25) rounding out home competition.

ISU will not match up with Arizona, Arizona State, Houston or West Virginia this season.

Complete 2024 Iowa State Soccer Schedule

Aug. 7 – MINNESOTA (exh.)

Aug. 15 – WESTERN ILLINOIS

Aug. 18 – CREIGHTON

Aug. 22 – at Drake

Aug. 29 – SAINT LOUIS

Sept. 1 – at Memphis

Sept. 5 – MICHIGAN

Sept. 8 – NORTHERN COLORADO

Sept. 12 – at Kansas *

Sept. 15 – IOWA

Sept. 19 – UCF *

Sept. 22 – COLORADO *

Sept. 26 – at Utah *

Sept. 30 – at BYU *

Oct. 6 – KANSAS STATE *

Oct. 10 – CINCINNATI *

Oct. 13 – at Texas Tech *

Oct. 17 – at Oklahoma State *

Oct. 20 – TCU *

Oct. 25 – BAYLOR *

HOME games in all caps | * = Big 12 Conference