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Landen Schafer competed in the State Hersey Track Meet on June 15. Schafer earned third place in the 400 meter, and his 4x100 relay team placed fourth.
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Landen Schafer competed in the State Hersey Track Meet on June 15. Schafer earned third place in the 400 meter, and his 4x100 relay team placed fourth.
AMES ? Northern Iowa's David Johnson did everything a team could want from a running back.On a steamy Midwest evening, Johnson tied a school record by scoring four touchdowns. He rushed for a career-high 199 yards and two scores. He added another 41 yards on four pass receptions and two more TDs.He ran over, around and through defenders as the FCS Panthers opened their season with an impressive 28-20 victory ...
The Top Ten teams in the Associated Press Iowa high school football polls of the 2013 season with first-place votes in parentheses and won-loss record, total points and position last week at right:Class 4ARecordPtsPrv1. Cedar Rapids Xavier (5)1-084-2. West Des Moines Dowling (4)1-081-3. West Des Moines Valley1-055-4. Iowa City West1-051-5. Pleasant Valley1-050-6. Cedar Falls1-047-7. ...
OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) ? An Australian baseball player out for a jog in an Oklahoma neighborhood was shot and killed by three ?bored? teenagers who decided to kill someone for fun, police said.Christopher Lane, who was visiting the town of Duncan, where his girlfriend and her family live, had passed a home where the boys were staying and that apparently led to him being gunned down at random, Police Chief Danny Ford ...
The MSAE volleyball team, from left to right, front row: Amanda Valentine, Hifza Akber, Flower Shreck, Anna Unger, Cathy Guo; back row: Loreena Hansen, Jivani Rodriguez, Daniella Hillman, Jasmin Shreef, Amie Seikh, Avery Travis and Coach Danielle Wallace. Not pictured: Kadie Roberts.
AMES ? Nearly all the so-called surprise teams in the Big 12 in recent years were led by big-time quarterbacks who put their programs over the top.Can Iowa State sophomore Sam Richardson be the next unknown to emerge as a star?The Cyclones believe so ? even though he's only thrown 79 career passes.Iowa State thinks they've finally found a dual-threat playmaker in Richardson, a sophomore who will get his third ...
IOWA CITY, Iowa (AP) ? Iowa sophomore Jake Rudock will be the starting quarterback for the season opener against Northern Illinois on Aug. 31.The announcement was made on Friday.Rudock was the backup to James Vandenberg in 2012, though he never took a snap for the Hawkeyes.Rudock, from Weston, Fla., played for St. Thomas Aquinas High ? winning 31 games and three state titles as the starter. He takes over a ...
DUNCAN, Okla. ? With a motive that?s both chilling and simple ? to break up the boredom of an Oklahoma summer ? three teenagers randomly targeted an Australian collegiate baseball player who was attending school in the U.S. and killed him for fun, prosecutors said Tuesday as they charged two of the boys with murder.Prosecutor Jason Hicks called the boys ?thugs? as he described how Christopher Lane, 22, of ...
The Fairfield 9U All-Stars finished second in a trio of tournaments including one in Fairfield. The players are, from left, front row: Connor Lyons, Dylan Hunter, Drake Drish, Tate Allen, Chance Swan, Caden Septer, Cael McClaran; back row: Kyle Godwin, Evan Haines, Coach Erreth Hunter, Kane Hook and Manager Ron Haines.
The annual Meet the Trojans event, which this year will take place on Aug. 23, will certainly have more than just scrimmages this season.The Trojan Athletic Boosters will be holding the ?Play It Again Trojans? fundraiser. The booster club is asking for donations of gently used sporting equipment and Trojan gear. Old cleats and shoes, baseball gloves and tennis rackets are among the expanse of items the club is ...
PRETORIA, South Africa (AP) ? Oscar Pistorius was indicted Monday on a charge of murdering his girlfriend, and prosecutors said witnesses heard a woman screaming before the sound of fatal gunshots fired by the double-amputee Olympian in the early hours of Valentine?s Day.Pistorius, who was in court for the indictment and wept before proceedings began, also will face a charge of illegal possession of ammunition ...
AMES (AP) ? Iowa State has sold all of its season tickets for the first time ? despite being picked to finish ninth in the Big 12.The Cyclones announced Monday that they've sold more than 43,000 season tickets. All they have left are single-game tickets.Iowa State's home game against Iowa is also sold out, and athletic director Jamie Pollard says the Cyclones anticipate selling out their first four home ...
KNOXVILLE (AP) ? Three-time NASCAR champion Tony Stewart reignited the debate about the danger of open-wheel winged sprint cars when he broke his leg last week in rural Iowa.It was the third crash in a month for Stewart. It came after former NASCAR driver Jason Leffler died racing sprint cars in June, and longtime driver Kramer Williamson died after a crash earlier this month.Sprint car racing has always been ...
The Iowa Girls Association has announced its All-State and All-District softball teams.Fairfield junior centerfielder Sydney Burnett was selected to the 4A All-State Second Team. Burnett batted .342, had 21 RBIs and stole 23 bases.Cardinal senior catcher Lindsay Moore received 2A First Team All-State honors. Moore led her team with six home runs, 18 doubles and a .475 batting average.Cheyann Lankford of Pekin ...
