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IGHSAU RELEASES LATEST VOLLEYBALL RANKINGS
The Iowa Girls High School Athletic Union released their latest volleyball rankings on Thursday afternoon. Area teams are highlighted below:
Class 1A Rankings
SCHOOL W-L LW
1 Tripoli 0-0 1
2 Holy Trinity Catholic 1-0 2
3 Grandview Park Baptist 0-0 3
4 North Sentral Kossuth 0-0 5
5 Alta 2-0 6
6 Stanton 1-0 7
7 Janesville 2-0 8
8 IMS 3-0 9
9 Adair-Casey 6-0 NR
10 Gehlen Catholic 1-1 11
11 East Union 6-0 NR
12 Boyden-Hull 3-0 15
13 Martensdale-St. Marys 2-2 4
14 Iowa Christian Academy 4-2 NR
15 Coon Rapids-Bayard 9-1 10
Dropped Out: Winfield-Mount Union (12), New London (13), Danville (14)
Class 2A Rankings
SCHOOL W-L LW
1 Western Christian 0-0 1
2 Ridge View 2-0 2
3 Mediapolis 6-0 3
4 West Fork 8-0 4
5 Treynor 0-0 6
6 Unity Christian 2-0 7
7 Grundy Center 0-0 8
8 Sheldon 4-0 9
9 Kuemper Catholic 0-1 5
10 Dike-New Hartford 0-0 10
11 East Sac County 2-0 11
12 Pella Christian 4-2 12
13 Waterloo Columbus 0-0 NR
14 Lake Mills 2-0 NR
15 IKM-Manning 2-2 13
Dropped Out: Camanche (14), Logan-Magnolia (15)
Class 3A Rankings
SCHOOL W-L LW
1 Mount Vernon 1-0 1
2 Waverly-Shell Rock 2-0 2
3 West Delaware 0-0 3
4 Pella 3-0 4
5 Bishop Heelan 2-0 6
6 Dubuque Wahlert 1-1 5
7 Williamsburg 0-1 7
8 Harlan 0-0 10
9 Algona 2-2 8
10 Centerville 1-0 11
11 Union 1-0 12
12 Iowa Falls-Alden 0-0 13
13 Chariton 3-0 NR
14 Hampton-Dumont 1-1 9
15 Nevada 3-2 15
Dropped Out: Winterset (14)
Class 4A Rankings
SCHOOL W-L LW
1 Ankeny 1-0 1
2 Waterloo East 1-0 3
3 Linn-Mar 0-0 4
4 Cedar Rapids Kennedy 4-0 5
5 Iowa City West 3-1 2
6 Urbandale 10-1 7
7 Sioux City East 2-0 8
8 Cedar Rapids Washington 1-0 11
9 Iowa City High 1-0 15
10 Dubuque Hempstead 0-2 6
11 Cedar Falls 6-1 9
12 Cedar Rapids Xavier 0-1 10
13 West Des Moines Valley 1-0 NR
14 Bettendorf 2-2 12
15 Ames 6-1 13
Dropped Out: Ottumwa (14)
Thu, 02 Sep 2010 15:52:04 CDT
KANSAS CITY ROYALS EXTEND CONTRACT WITH OMAHA
OMAHA, Neb (AP) _ The Kansas City Royals have extended their contract with Triple-A Omaha through the 2014 season.
The Omaha club has been Kansas City's Triple-A affiliate since the Royals joined the American League in 1969 as an expansion team. The teams announced the extension Thursday.
More than 700 of the nearly 1,000 players who have been part of the Omaha team over the years have gone on to play in the major leagues.
The Omaha Royals are moving into a new ballpark southwest of Omaha next season, and the team could have a new name by then. Fans have been asked to submit name suggestions.
Thu, 02 Sep 2010 12:04:40 CDT
ELWYN MCROY NEW ASSISTANT AT IOWA STATE
AMES, Iowa- Iowa State head men’s basketball coach Fred Hoiberg announced today that Elwyn McRoy, an owner of 14 years of coaching experience at the Division I and junior college level, will join the Cyclone men’s basketball program as an assistant coach.
McRoy spent the last two seasons (2009-10) as a member of John Brady’s staff at Arkansas State where he was a key part of the Red Wolves’ resurgence on the college basketball landscape. ASU went 17-14 overall and 11-7 in league play (Sun Belt Conference), totaling its best conference mark since 2006-07.
McRoy helped tutor Sun Belt Freshman of the Year Brandon Reed in his rookie season in 2009-10, as Reed earned USBWA and NABC All-District honors after averaging an ASU-freshman-record 15.1 points per game.
A native of Wichita, Kan., McRoy has developed a reputation as a top-notch recruiter with his valuable ties in the junior college ranks. In 2009, McRoy was lauded by collegeinsider.com as one of the best mid-major assistants in college basketball. The website called him, “arguably the best junior college recruiter in all of college basketball.” He was also noted as one of the best junior college recruiters by Basketball Times.
McRoy cemented his strong junior college background when he began his career as an assistant coach at Butler (Kan.) Community College in 1997 before going to Independence (Kan.) Community College from 1998-2000. He then became an assistant at Redlands (Okla.) Community College from 2001-02, where was influential in the recruitment of Taj Gray, who later became the 2005 Big 12 Newcomer of the Year at Oklahoma, and Brandon Polk, who was named the 2006 Horizon Conference Player of the Year at Butler.
McRoy was head coach at Frank Phillips (Texas) College for two seasons (2002-03) before becoming an assistant at Southern University (2003-05) and Northwood (Fla.) University (2005-06). At Southern, he helped guide the Jaguars to their best record in six years and their first above-.500 mark in conference play in eight years.
Before his stint at Arkansas State, McRoy was an assistant for two seasons at Georgia Southern, where he aided the Eagles to a 20-12 mark in 2007-08. He helped GSU land several top recruits, including JUCO All-Americans Tyrone Crunnell, Julian Allen and Antonio Hansen.
McRoy enjoyed a solid player career, competing one season at Butler Community College before transferring to Hutchinson (Kan.) Community College for his sophomore year, helping the Blue Dragons win the 1994 NJCAA National Championship. He finished his collegiate career at Cleveland State, earning his bachelor’s degree in 1995.
In the summer of 2010, McRoy was selected by the Black Coaches Association to take part in the ACE (Achieving Coaching Excellence) program in Indianapolis, Ind., where he participated in a three-day professional development program.
Thu, 02 Sep 2010 11:21:42 CDT
RIVALRY WEEK PART TWO: SHENANDOAH MEETS RED OAK
The Shenandoah Mustangs opened their season last Friday night with a home loss to the Underwood Eagles, 35-6. All of that is forgotten, though, as they head into their annual rivalry game with the Red Oak Tigers. This year it acts as a non-district game, but it's just as important to both teams and communities. Shenandoah Coach Brett Roberts talked with KMA Sports on Wednesday morning as he prepared for the game.
Roberts' team played a much better second half against Underwood in their opening game. Roberts explains why...
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Roberts says his team was able to take a lot from the loss...
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Roberts on Red Oak week...
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Roberts on the Tigers this year...
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Roberts on where he feels his team might be able to have some success...
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Dean Adkins will be in Red Oak reporting for the game during the New Balance Commodities Friday Night Football Connection. Complete coverage of Week Two begins at 6:20 on KMA AM and FM.
Thu, 02 Sep 2010 8:14:53 CDT
CARDINALS TRAVELTO LOGAN FOR WEEK TWO
The Clarinda Cardinals got their season started on the right foot last Friday with a 22-12 win over rival Red Oak. For Head Coach Jim Lindsay it was his first victory in his first game as head coach. Lindsay says it feels good having win one in the books.
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The Cardinals make the trip to Logan-Magnolia Friday night. Lindsay says it will be a tough battle.
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Logan-Magnolia opened its season with a 62-7 rout of Missouri Valley while rushing for over 400 yards. Lindsay on what his defense needs to do to try to slow down the Panthers.
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Lindsay says the team has picked it up a notch going into Week 2.
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Lindsay hopes to see some big improvement Friday night.
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KMA reporter Steve Chambers will be in Logan Friday night during the New Balance Commodities Friday Night Football Connection Show, which gets underway around 7:10 each Friday all season long on KMA-AM 960 and KMA-FM 99.1.
Picture courtesy Joe Moore of J&C Photography, Clarinda
Thu, 02 Sep 2010 8:06:49 CDT
MARTIN DAILY BLOG: THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 2ND
You know what they say: Be careful what you wish for because you just might get road games with Wisconsin, Michigan, and Penn State as well as home dates with Ohio State and Iowa. The Big Ten Conference announced their divisions last night, and they also threw Nebraska the toughest schedule in the history of Western Civilization. Wow, wow, and a double wow.
I can just hear the Big XII fans cackling while looking at that schedule. Well, Big XII fans, enjoy your Versus Big XII Game of the Week while Nebraska hosts Kirk Herbstreit, Lee Corso, and the boys every other week. And when you look at this schedule, a stark reality comes across for the fans of the Big XII including those in Lincoln. With the addition of the Big Red, there isn’t a conference in America that touches the top six in the Big Ten.
There’s no complaining on this end. I didn’t expect the new guy to get a cozy massage chair, some baked bread, and a warm apple pie. I expected the hard wood chair, some stale white bread from No Frills, and some cold poontang pie. And Nebraska got it. I could just hear the little voice in Jim Delany’s head last night as he presented the brand new gifts to the Husker fans: You want to join the Big Ten, Big Red? Here you go. Have fun, rook.
However, I do have two concerns. What happens in 2013 and 2014? Nebraska will still get their crossover game with Penn State, but off the schedule comes Ohio State and Wisconsin only to be replaced by…..Purdue? Indiana? Illinois? Yeck. When the Big XII was originally formed the thinking was Nebraska could play Texas for two years then get Oklahoma for two years. With that they would have a nationally significant game each year. The Big Ten is kind of throwing it all out there in the first two years. Of course, when the nine-game conference schedule begins in 2015 things could be and probably will be adjusted.
My second concern involves Iowa. They really got stiffed on the crossover rival. OK, so they’re going to leave Wisconsin out of the division, but they’ll certainly be the crossover rival, right? Wrong. Iowa’s crossover is Purdue. Purdue? Really? I know the Hawkeye fans made fun of Gene Keady’s combover for years (who didn’t?), but I don’t think there’s much disdain there. Even Illinois would have probably made for a better crossover if hate were involved. Then those Iowa football/Illinois basketball fans from suburbia Chicago that attend Iowa would really have to make up their mind. Instead they got the Boilers. Not appealing. Even though it’s not appealing, it could actually lead to Iowa having an advantage in winning the division while Nebraska is crossing over with Penn State and Michigan with Ohio State. Still, that’s really stinky.
In the end, this is just an amazing thing. Nebraska isn’t going to back down from the challenge. No, they’ll embrace it. They might “ooh” and “ahhh” over the schedule like the rest of the country, but I think we all realize this is going to be fun. It was the right decision to move to the Big Ten Conference, and I’m more sure of that by the day. Instead of lame trips to Waco or Ames or Lawrence, we’ve got trips to Camp Randall and the Big House and Happy Valley and one of my favorite cities, Minneapolis.
Over the next two years Nebraska fans will get to see the famed dot of the “I” and the rowdy Hawkeye fans screaming expletives and carrying cases of Old Style. They’ll walk into a wave of white and watch Joe Paterno run onto the field for one of the last times. They’ll head to Minneapolis, take in a game, go to the Mall of America, and then chow down on a Famous Everything Omelette from Key’s Café before heading back home. They’ll go to Chicago for a Big Ten football game. They’ll experience the Big House and “Jump Around” at Camp Randall. Yes, the Big Ten Conference is lucky to have Nebraska like all the talking heads keep saying, but it’s also true that Nebraska is lucky to have the Big Ten. Buckle up. It’s going to be a fun ride.
Please direct your comments to the following e-mail: dmartin@kmaland.com
Thu, 02 Sep 2010 7:35:26 CDT
SPOOFHOUNDS LOOK TO BOUNCE BACK IN HOME OPENER
For the second consecutive season the Maryville Spoofhounds are 0-1. Head Coach Chris Holt and the rest of the team are hoping this fall goes exactly like last fall did, when after a season-opening loss the Hounds racked up 14 wins in a row culminating with a win in St. Louis for the state championship. Holt's Hounds lost in Week 1 to a familiar foe, Lawson, 17-7. He says the breaks didn't go their way.
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Holt says his team's weaknesses showed Friday.
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Holt was asked what has to happen to get the offense going.
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After winning the Class 2 State Championship last fall, Maryville bumped up to Class 3 for the next two years. Holt says he isn't concerned about the change yet.
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The Spoofhounds start play in the Midland Empire Conference Friday night in their home opener against Smithville. The Warriors beat fellow-MEC foe Cameron last Friday to start the season.
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KMA reporter Jason Eggers will be in Maryville Friday night filing live reports.
Thu, 02 Sep 2010 6:22:47 CDT
TOP-RANKED CYCLONES FACE TOUGH TASK
It's the game of the week in Southwest Iowa. The best football program in the state against a young upstart team looking to make a name for themselves. The Harlan Cyclones will travel to Council Bluffs to battle the state's leading rusher, Austin Ebertowski, and his Abraham Lincoln team. The Lynx are 2-0 with blowout wins over Thomas Jefferson and Johnston while the Cyclones are 1-0. Harlan beat Denison-Schleswig, 49-7, in Week 0 before taking a week off last Friday night. Coach Curt Bladt talked with KMA Sports recently about his team's approach during the bye week...
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Bladt looked back on his team's win over Denison and talked about the play of quarterback, Zach Osborn...
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Bladt takes a look at Abraham Lincoln...
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Bladt on Lynx running back Austin Ebertowski...
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Bladt with some keys to success for Friday night...
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Ryan Hart will be in Council Bluffs Friday night with reports on the game. Join KMA's coverage on both AM and FM at 6:20 with the Iowa Western Community College Clarinda Campus High School Football Preview Show.
Thu, 02 Sep 2010 6:13:49 CDT
RANGERS NIP ROYALS, 4-3
KANSAS CITY, Mo (AP) _ Rookie Mitch Moreland homered again and the Texas Rangers kept pulling away in the AL West, beating the Kansas City Royals 4-3 Wednesday night.
The Rangers increased their division lead to 91/2 games over Oakland, which lost in New York.
Moreland homered for the second straight game, leading off the sixth inning with a shot that made it 4-2. He has five home runs in his first 25 big league games.
Tommy Hunter (12-2) allowed two runs on seven hits and four walks in 5 2-3 innings.
Thu, 02 Sep 2010 5:43:41 CDT
HUSKERS FACE DAUNTING SCHEDULE IN 2011
OMAHA, Neb (AP) _ The Big Ten's welcome gift to Nebraska looks more like a booby prize.
The football schedule for 2011-12, the Cornhuskers' first two seasons in the Big Ten, pits Nebraska against a lineup no sane coach would envy.
The Cornhuskers open the 2011 conference schedule at Wisconsin. They come home to play Ohio State, then it's off to Minnesota and home games against Michigan State and Northwestern.
Here comes the big finish: at Penn State, at Michigan and home against new border rival Iowa.
Conspicuously absent: Indiana, Illinois and Purdue.
Wed, 01 Sep 2010 22:14:31 CDT
ROYALS' KENDALL TO UNDERGO SEASON ENDING SURGERY
KANSAS CITY, Mo (AP) _ Jason Kendall, who had been the Kansas City Royals starting catcher in 118 of their first 132 games, will undergo shoulder surgery Friday in Los Angeles for a torn right rotator cuff.
Royals manager Ned Yost said the recovery time is eight to 10 months, but the club is hopeful he would be back by the next year's season opener.
Yost said a MRI Monday detected ``extensive damage'' to Kendall's throwing shoulder.
Kendall, who this season became the fifth player in major league history to catch 2,000 games, hit .256 with 18 extra-base hits, all doubles, this season, his first with the Royals.
Wed, 01 Sep 2010 17:19:14 CDT
IOWA'S HUNDERTMARK LEAVES TEAM
IOWA CITY, Iowa (AP) _ Iowa says that junior offensive lineman Cody Hundertmark has left the Hawkeyes to focus on his schoolwork. That's according to Iowa Coach Kirk Ferentz.
Hundertmark, a 6-foot-4, 285-pounder from Humboldt, Iowa, played sparingly as a defensive lineman from 2007-09.
Hundertmark moved to the offensive line in preparations for last season's Orange Bowl but wasn't listed on the depth chart for Saturday's opener against Eastern Illinois.
Wed, 01 Sep 2010 17:17:17 CDT
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