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IOWA CITY (AP) ? Iowa coach Fran McCaffery kept telling struggling sophomore Josh Oglesby to take open shots, even though the numbers suggested he shouldn?t.Oglesby rewarded his coach?s faith with crucial back-to-back 3s that buried Illinois.Devyn Marble scored 21 points and Iowa beat the Illini 63-55 on Tuesday night for its fifth win in seven games.Oglesby added 10 for the surging Hawkeyes (19-11, 8-9 Big ...

Area high school basketball standouts Hanna Haynes and Lindsay Moore were recently honored with placement on the Class 2A all-Southeast District team. Players are selected by the Iowa Girls? Coaches Association.Haynes, a 6-foot-2 senior center from Van Buren, averaged 19.4 points per game en route to a 443-point season. Her 273 rebounds and 131 blocked shots placed her in the top five of Class 2A in both ...

Name a stat and chances are good Fairfield senior Sidney Baumann ranked atop the Southeast Conference in it this winter.The senior guard led the conference in scoring with 17.6 points per game, and she also ranked first in the league in assists with nearly 2.7 per contest. Free throws? She hit 71 percent of those. And steals? She led the league in that, too, swiping away 2.6 per game and nabbing 62 overall. ...

Fairfield boys? basketball head coach Tyler Miklo doled out awards Monday at the season-ending banquet in Fairfield High School Commons. Award winners include, from left: Joseph Hietpas (Mr. Assist Award), Darrin Dimmitt (Jordan Leazer Take Charge Award), Jake Greiner (Most Improved), Jordan Reid (Most Promising), Spencer Peterman (Most Valuable, Windex Award and Man of Steal Award) and Kyle Weirup (Coaches ...

IOWA CITY ? More snow may be in the forecast, but spring is in the air with the start of the indoor track season this week.The Fairfield girls? varsity track team kicks off its indoor season today at the Demon Indoor on the University of Iowa campus in Iowa City. The Trojan boys follow suit with their own indoor meet scheduled Thursday in Iowa City.Events for both indoors commence approximately at 5 p.m.

After qualifying to the state individual tournament for the second consecutive season, Fairfield seniors Seth Davisson and Jake Mineart were once again named to the all-Southeast Conference wrestling team this winter.The duo was joined by a third senior, Fairfield 145-pounder Aaron Gevock, on the first team all-SEC squad for 2012-13.Davisson, a 170-pounder, was the Trojans? lone state place winner this winter ...

JOHANNESBURG, South Africa (AP) ? The substance found in Oscar Pistorius? bedroom after the shooting death of his girlfriend was identified by his representatives Wednesday as Testis compositum ? an herbal remedy they said is used for ?muscle recovery.? A product by that name also is sold as a sexual enhancer.Testis compositum is marketed by some online retailers in both oral and injectable forms as a testosteron...

DES MOINES (AP) ? Kayla Armstrong drove into the lane and scored with 9 seconds left Saturday to give Cedar Rapids Xavier a 53-52 victory over Harlan and the Class 4A girls state championship.Armstrong scored just seconds after Harlan had taken a 52-51 lead when sophomore Taylor Wagner drove down the right side of the lane and banked in a shot.Harlan called time to set up a final shot after Armstrong scored, ...