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Indian Hills men?s basketball coach takes new jobThe Indian Hills Community College men?s basketball coach has resigned and is taking an assistant coaching job at a NCAA Division 1 program.Barret Peery won 93 games in three seasons as the coach. Peery is departing after completing a 34-3 season with a trip to the NJCAA championship game where the Warriors lost to Jones County (MS). The Warriors advanced to the ...

AMES (AP) ? Iowa State has given coach Fred Hoiberg a $600,000 a year raise, bumping his average annual salary to $2.6 million in an effort to keep "The Mayor" in Ames for life.Hoiberg just finished his fourth and most successful season at Iowa State. He led the Cyclones to 28 wins, a Big 12 tournament title and the program's first Sweet 16 appearance in 14 years.According to Winthrop Intelligence, a company ...

The Fairfield girls? golf team fell in Mt. Pleasant by the team score of 234-192 Tuesday.Medalists for the meet were Mt. Pleasant?s Courtney Mabeus and Brianne Holtkamp, who shot scores of 43 and 47, respectively.Fairfield?s Lindsey Repp was barely behind those scores with a 49, which led the Trojans.?Mt. Pleasant was true to form and played well on their home course,? Fairfield coach Joe Kruzich said. ?They ...

STORRS, Conn. (AP) ? The partying started Monday night on the UConn campus and spilled into Tuesday. And rightly so.It was in honor of the women?s basketball team, which beat Notre Dame 79-58 in Nashville, Tenn., on Tuesday, capturing a record ninth national title, and the men?s team, which beat Kentucky 60-54 in Arlington, Texas, about 23 hours earlier, capturing its fourth NCAA title.?It was pretty crazy last ...

DETROIT (AP) ? When Michigan State was fighting to stay afloat despite a succession of injuries to key players, Lacey Holsworth was there.When the team rebounded to win the Big Ten tournament, the 8-year-old from St. Johns, Mich., was there.And as the cold-shooting Spartans bowed out of the NCAA tournament at the hands of eventual champion Connecticut one win short of the Final Four, she was there.Now, Lacey ...

The Van Buren boys? golf team opened up its season with a home victory Monday at the Riverview Country Club over Lone Tree.The Warriors scored a 182, while Lone Tree shot a 213.Austin Bartholomew led the Warriors by shooting a 41 on the nine hole, par-36 course. Bartholomew birdied hole No. 3, which is a par-5 hole.Three of his teammates also shot in the 40s. Noah Witten shot a 44, Robby Laughlin shot a 48 and ...

Two former Trojans ran Saturday at the Wartburg Select college track meet in Waverly.Libbey Schubert, who now runs for Wartburg College, and Hannah Sobaski, who runs for Grand View University, both participated in multiple events at the meet.Schubert?s 4x100-meter relay team took first place with the time of 48.05. Schubert runs the anchor leg of the race. The team is now ranked first in the nation in Division ...

The Pekin, Cardinal and Van Buren boys? and girls? track teams competed at the Dennis Anderson Relays at Davis County High School in Bloomfield Monday.Wayne, Davis County, Schuyler County and Putnam County (Mo.) competed with them in Class A. The Pekin boys ran away with the team competition.?We were pleased with how we improved our times in most events,? Pekin coach Davis Eidahl said. ?This week we spent ...