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CLASS 3A
Substate 1
Storm Lake 4, LeMars 2
Substate 7
Indianola 8, CB Thomas Jefferson 0
Regular Season
CB Abraham Lincoln 3, Sioux City East 2 – OT
(Harlan, Iowa) – The Shelby County Conservation Dept. is hosting its first kayak fishing session in a little
over three-weeks. The event takes place Saturday, June 3rd from 8 AM to 10 AM, at Prairie Rose State Park. The group will meet on the east side of County Road M47. Women and families are highly encouraged to participate! This session will be limited to 15 people and there is a $5 fee. Pre-registration is required, please sign-up here: https://conta.cc/3ob9RYO
Kayaks and fishing poles will be provided, but feel free to bring your own equipment. If you are signed up for the hook and paddle program through the DNR, you will get extra points for attending this event. This is a free fishing weekend, so fishing licenses are encouraged, but not required.
Audubon 14, Griswold 2
AHSTW 6, Boyer Valley 0
Coon Rapids-Bayard 6, IKM-Manning 2
Creston 6, Winterset 3
Lewis Central 20, Shenandoah 2
Red Oak 15, Missouri Valley 1
Sioux City North 2, CB Abraham Lincoln 0
Sioux City North 6, CB Abraham Lincoln 1
Sioux City West 4, CB Thomas Jefferson 2
Sioux City West 10, CB Thomas Jefferson 0
West Harrison 11, Logan-Magnolia 8 (8 inn.)
Class 1A
Bishop Heelan 5, St. Albert 4
Clarinda 5, Lewis Central 0
Class 2A
Norwalk 5, Abraham Lincoln 4
Iowa baseball coach Rick Heller will continue with his revamped pitching rotation for Thursday’s start of a three game Big Ten series at Northwestern. Marcus Morgan and Ty Langenberg moved up a day and Brody Brecht moved from game one to game three and the Hawkeyes responded by sweeping Michigan State. Heller says all three will be working on one day less rest.
The changes worked. The starting pitchers combined for 17 innings of work and gave up only three runs.
Heller says the Hawkeyes are not taking anything for granted but all signs point to an NCAA Regional. Iowa is 37-12 overall 13-7 in the Big Ten.
Iowa finished 36-19 last season but was not given an at-large bid.
Heller believes the Hawkeyes have already done enough to get into a regional.
The Hawkeyes are still waiting to see if they will get leading hitter Keaton Anthony back in the lineup. Anthony has missed the last two weekends as the u8niversity investigates more than two dozen athletes who are accused of on-line gambling.
The series with Northwestern runs through Saturday.
(Radio Iowa) – Workers in Davenport have been removing the sand-filled HESCO barriers this week that kept back a surge of water on the Mississippi River. The river is receding fast after nearing record flood stage from snowmelt that came down from Minnesota. Tim Baldwin was around in 2019 when the flood waters inundated his building in downtown Davenport — but he says was feeling pretty confident in the work the city had done to keep his block safe this time. “We had no worries at all that that wall was going to fail,” Baldwin says.
The city doubled the size and height of the wall after the water breached the wall in 2019. It held through the crest of 21-and-a-half feet. “We saw it creep up to one of its highest points we’ve ever seen it creep up on that wall before. There was a lot of wall left to go we could have handled a lot more water I think and again no concerns whatsoever,” according to Baldwin. Pete Stopulos owns several buildings that were damaged by the downtown flooding in 2019 — but didn’t see a repeat this year. ” Really, I think the major take away was the plan worked. In 2019, we all hoped the city would build the wall they did this time. Obliviously, the blueprint was there and they executed it and it worked quite well,” he says.
Davenport flooding, 4-30-23
Baldwin says they did lose some business at his Front Street Brewery and Tap Room as traffic was limited by road closures to the downtown. He’s counting on the Bix 7 Road Race and the 50th RAGBRAI to recoup some of that lost revenue.
(reporting by Zachary Smith, Iowa Public Radio)
(Radio Iowa) – Researchers at Iowa State University are developing an advanced type of sensor which farmers can place in their fields to keep constant tabs on nutrient levels and soil moisture. Jonathan Claussen, a mechanical engineering professor at I-S-U, says the sensors are about the size of a tent stake and they’re designed to stay in the ground all growing season, about four months, through any temperature swings or rain events. “They monitor total nitrogen, so both nitrates and ammonia, and they can tell the farmer when and where in that field fertilizer needs to be applied,” Claussen says. “Fertilizer can be up to a third of their farming costs, so it’s potentially a big cost savings if we can reduce even a portion of that.”
The device needs to be both rugged and easy to use, Claussen says, as he notes farmers don’t want to read a 20-page instruction manual. It also needs to be inexpensive, so farmers can place a wide network of sensors. “This really gives the farmer an opportunity to practice precision agriculture,” Claussen says. “This way, they can do kind of a spoon feeding of the fertilizer throughout the growing season so they only apply when and where they need it.”
Ideally, farmers could purchase dozens of the sensors to monitor the soil’s nutrient levels in real time, as they’ve worked to keep the price at less than one-dollar per sensor. “This allows them to do continuous soil sampling without that expense of having to ship it off to the lab but they can get results immediately,” Claussen says. “They can monitor so they can still have their maximum yields. But at the same time, we can show them, you can get those great maximum yields but still use less fertilizer and have less agricultural inputs.”
The I-S-U team has worked to develop an array of sensors for other purposes, for things like food safety and even testing for COVID-19.
(Red Oak, Iowa) – Two people were arrested on separate charges, Tuesday night, in Red Oak. Police say 40-year-old Elysia Tylene White, of Red Oak, was arrested at around 9-p.m. in the 600 block of N. 5th Street, in Red Oak. White was charged with Theft in the 5th Degree. Her bond at the Montgomery County Jail was set at $300. And, at around 8:30-p.m., 56-year-old John Philip Gekas, of Omaha, was arrested in Red Oak, following a traffic stop near Joy Street and Miller Avenue. Gekas was taken into custody on an active Ida County warrant for Contempt of Court. His bond was also set at $300.
(Red Oak, Iowa) – An investigation into an accident that took place at around 2:30-p.m. Tuesday, in Red Oak, resulted in an arrest. According to Red Oak Police, 25-year-old Hailey Ann Fada, of Red Oak, was arrested for OWI/1st offense. She was also cited for Failure to Maintain Control. Hailey Fada was being held in the Montgomery County Jail on a $1,000 bond.
The accident happened in the 1400 block of Eastern Avenue, when a 2017 Chevy Malibu driven by Fada, sideswiped a legally parked 2011 Ford F-250 pickup, registered to Charles Shipley, of Red Oak. Damage to the vehicles amounted to $3,500 for the pickup, and $4,000 to the Malibu.
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