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MIAA COMMISSIONER LEAVES TO BECOME A-D AT MIAA SCHOOL
The MIAA must begin looking for a new commissioner. The Division 2 conference that Northwest Missouri State and Nebraska-Omaha call home is looking to fill the post after Jim Johnson left to become the new athletic director at MIAA-member Pittsburg State.
A press conference introducing Johnson as the new A-D at Pitt is Friday at 11 on campus in Pittsburg, Kansas.
This news comes at a time of a lot of potential transition in the league. The new athletic seasons start competition in a little more than a month. Also, Lincoln University, located in Jefferson City, Missouri, officially became the league's twelfth member July 1st of this year. The MIAA presidents also voted last month to pursue expansion to 16 teams. The four teams the league is reportedly looking at adding are Central Oklahoma, Northeastern State out of Oklahoma, Nebraska-Kearney, and Lindenwood, a current NAIA member in the Heart of America Athletic Conference that was recently accepted into NCAA Division 2. Lindenwood is located in St. Charles, Missouri.
Thu, 29 Jul 2010 15:18:47 CDT
A LOOK AT GLENWOOD'S SEMIFINAL OPPONENT - CENTRAL DEWITT
The Glenwood baseball team continues its run at the state tournament Friday afternoon in the Class 3A semifinals against Central Clinton, Dewitt. The Rams and Sabers both had excellent state debuts Tuesday evening with victories over Algona and Carlisle, respectively. Those two match up Friday afternoon in a game we'll have on KMA-FM beginning at approximately 2:00. The winner will play for its first state baseball title Saturday evening at 6:00.
KMA Sports talked with Central Dewitt Head Coach Bill Petsche Thursday afternoon. The Sabers were just 16-15 going into the tournament, but as Coach Petsche says his team has continually improved this year. Prior to the state tournament, the Sabers beat Anamosa 8-7 and state #1 Davenport Assumption 6-5 in 8 innings in district play, then Dubuque Wahlert 9-7 in the substate final.
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Junior Ryan Lechtenberg got a complete game win on the mound to improve to 6-0 in the state quarterfinal win over Carlisle. Petsche says Lechtenberg is one of four pretty good pitchers he has.
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Petsche on the batting order which is pretty balanced, but is led by leadoff hitter Brandon Jasper.
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Just like Glenwood, Central Dewitt is making its first state tournament appearance. Petsche says its been a fun run so far.
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Petsche admits his knowledge of Glenwood is limited to little more than the game he witnessed Tuesday night.
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We'll have the Glenwood/Central Dewitt state semifinal Friday afternoon at approximately 2:00 from Principal Park in Des Moines on KMA-FM 99.1. The game follows the other 3A semifinal between Knoxville and Charles City, which begins at noon.
Thu, 29 Jul 2010 15:07:06 CDT
METS SHUT OUT CARDS - TAKE SERIES
NEW YORK -- A frustrating road trip for the Cardinals ended with a shutout loss. R.A. Dickey shut down the Redbirds offense, while Blake Hawksworth never really got going, and the Cards fell to the Mets, 4-0, at Citi Field Thursday.
St. Louis finished a six-game road trip with a 2-4 record, taking both wins in extra innings. Thursday, the Cards went quietly, managing four base hits against the Mets knuckleballer. Two of St. Louis' four baserunners were erased on double plays as Dickey induced 17 outs on the ground.
Meanwhile Hawksworth wasn't terrible, but wasn't especially effective, either. He allowed seven hits and three walks in six innings, including a mammoth three-run homer by Ike Davis in the third. Hawksworth had trouble getting the ball on the ground, and paid for it when Davis went deep.
The Cardinals have lost five out of seven since an eight-game win streak. They trail the Reds by a half-game in the National League Central.
Thu, 29 Jul 2010 14:03:22 CDT
ROYALS PROMOTE PITCHER HOLLAND TO FILL ROSTER SPOT
KANSAS CITY, Mo (AP) _ The Kansas City Royals have promoted Greg Holland from Triple-A Omaha to fill the roster spot of outfielder Scott Podsednik, who was traded to the Los Angeles Dodgers.
The Royals announced the move before Thursday's game against the Baltimore Orioles.
The 24-year-old Holland was 3-3 with a 3.81 ERA and three saves for Omaha. The former 10th-round draft pick out of Western Kentucky has been especially good recently, going 1-0 with a 1.10 ERA and 30 strikeouts in his last 10 outings. He's been holding hitters to a .161 average.
Podsednik was traded to the Dodgers on Wednesday for a pair of minor-league prospects. His replacement by Holland means Kansas City is carrying 13 pitchers, including eight relievers.
Thu, 29 Jul 2010 13:58:54 CDT
CHIEFS OPEN NEW CAMP HOME FRIDAY
KANSAS CITY, Mo (AP) _ A big day for the Kansas City Chiefs starts Friday morning at the new Founder's Plaza in Arrowhead Stadium. It will wind up with the first practice at their gleaming new practice facility in St. Joseph.
NFL commissioner Roger Goodell will be on hand at the Founder's Plaza when a 9-foot statue is unveiled of Lamar Hunt, founder of the Chiefs and the American Football League.
Coach Todd Haley will begin practice a few hours later at the team's new facility in St. Joseph. It will be the first time in 20 years the Chiefs have not camped in River Falls, Wis.
The practice facility 45 minutes north of Arrowhead Stadium will the Chiefs' summer home for at least the next five years.
Thu, 29 Jul 2010 14:01:07 CDT
KOLL NAMED TRACK SCHOLAR OF THE YEAR
NEW ORLEANS – Iowa State’s Lisa Koll has been named the 2010 US Track & Field and Cross Country Association (USTFCCA) outdoor track scholar of the year for the second time. She had also earned the award in 2008. Koll is one of three members of the ISU women’s track team to earn academic All-America honors from the USTFCCA this season. Cyclone Big 12 400-meter hurdle champion Kianna Elahi and NCAA 10,000-meter qualifier Semehar Tesfaye were also honored.
The award Koll received is determined from among those female collegiate competitors who earned All-Academic status and placed highest in individual events at the most recent NCAA Championships. Those who earn multiple individual championship titles rank higher in the tie-breaking process, and cumulative GPA is weighed as the final tiebreaker to establish a winner. Separate awards are given to track athletes and field athletes and separately for the indoor and outdoor seasons, resulting in four categories.
Koll, a native of Fort Dodge, Iowa, was the NCAA outdoor champion in the 5,000 and 10,000 meters and became the fourth female in collegiate history to win both of those events at a single championship. Koll also set the 10,000-meter collegiate record in March with a 31:18.07 run and is one of three finalists for The Bowerman, the highest individual award in collegiate track and field. Koll, in the winter 2010 term, was a second-year graduate student in veterinary medicine. Koll was also the 2008 winner of the Outdoor Track Scholar Athlete of the Year award.
Thu, 29 Jul 2010 13:06:07 CDT
MARTIN DAILY BLOG: THURSDAY, JULY 29TH
Can you smell that? It’s getting closer and closer to reality. It seems like we’ve been waiting for years. Let me assure you the wait is dissipating. It’s nearing to a close. Football season is (almost) HEEEREEEEEE!!!!
NFL training camps are beginning, college media days are ongoing, and high school football camp begins on Monday. It’s here. We can talk about it now. Sure, we could have talked about it throughout the offseason (and a lot of us did), but then we usually ended up in a corner sweating profusely with no real way to get our football fix. But now I have just 17 more days before the football season really begins.
What’s in 17 days? Well, that’s the date of my fantasy football draft. Dating back to high school I’ve been in a league with seven other friends that is the most competitive, balanced, and just overall enjoyable fantasy league that has ever existed. During these years there have been times when there was 10 or 12 teams in the league, but through it all us eight have stuck it out. I’ll spare you the details of the story because the funny thing about fantasy leagues is this: You want to tell everyone about your team, but nobody wants to hear it.
Anyway, I need this season to start. Since I did my last baseball game of the season over a week ago it’s been the most boring time of my life. I went from a streak of 10 games in 13 days to doing absolutely, positively nothing. I’m a lost dog sitting around my apartment looking for something to do or someone to talk with. I turn on the television and try to do play-by-play of Boy Meets World. I don’t know how much longer I can detail Corey and Tapanga’s lives before I lose my mind.
I’ve watched more movies in the last week than I have over the last three months. I DVR movies while watching movies. I search the Internet for clues to the next Real World/Road Rules Challenge. (The next challenge is called Cut Throat, by the way.) I have a special countdown clock hanging above my television counting down the days, hours, minutes, and seconds to the next episode of Big Brother. I work out extra hard in hopes that I will go home and pass out for the remainder of the day and night. I’m lost, folks. Lost. My life is in such disarray that I wrote a blog about MILK yesterday! MILK! And then today I’m writing about being bored. I remember during football season there was so much stuff on my mind that I had to save stuff I wanted to write for the next THREE blogs. I’m really struggling right now, folks. These truly are the dog days of summer.
Meanwhile, Bryan Clark is just living the dream. He’s driving to baseball games, doing baseball games, and dreaming about baseball games. Well, Bryan…I know you’re reading this. I’ve got news for you. It’s all going to come crashing down after this week is over. Sure, you may feel the ecstasy of a Glenwood state championship in your bones for the weekend, but when you come in on Monday you’re going to sit down at your chair and have nowhere to go. Of course, your dog days and wait for football season will be much shorter than mine. But at least you’ll join me in misery for a bit.
Let’s be honest, folks. This blog was awful. I’m going to go home today, think about what I’ve done, and come back a refreshed man for Random Thought Friday. Hey, I’m not perfect at all.
Send your love or hate mail to dmartin@kmaland.com
Thu, 29 Jul 2010 8:09:38 CDT
CARDINALS BEAT METS IN EXTRAS
NEW YORK (AP) _ Albert Pujols drove in the go-ahead run with two outs in the 13th inning, and the St Louis Cardinals survived a frantic comeback to beat the New York Mets 8-7 on Wednesday night.
Matt Holliday hit a two-run homer and finished with three RBIs, and Jaime Garcia also drove in two runs for the Cardinals, who scored six times off Mets ace Johan Santana in the first inning only to watch their bullpen let the lead slip away.
The Mets scored four times in the eighth to tie the game, and that's where it stood when Pedro Feliciano (2-6) plunked Skip Schumaker and walked Felipe Lopez with one out in the 13th. Jon Jay hit into a fielder's choice, putting runners on the corners, and manager Jerry Manuel elected to pitch to Pujols rather than walk the bases loaded.
His grounder through the left side brought in Schumaker with the go-ahead run.
Thu, 29 Jul 2010 8:01:04 CDT
GENTILE MAKES COLLEGE CHOICE
Council Bluffs, Saint Albert running back Jake Gentile will have one less thing to worry about this upcoming football season.
The senior-to-be made his college decision on Wednesday pledging to play football at South Dakota State starting in the fall of 2011. South Dakota State is a member of the NCAA Football Championship Subdivision, known as Division I-AA from 1978 through 2005.
Gentile won't be the first member of his family to attend the school. His cousin, Brock, played defensive back for the Jackrabbits from 2004 to 2007 after graduating from St. Albert.
Gentile and the rest of the Falcons will be aiming for a second consecutive state championship in Class 1A. August 20th marks Week 0 in the state of Iowa with August 27th serving as the official first night of competition.
Thu, 29 Jul 2010 7:58:47 CDT
ROYALS SEND PODSEDNIK TO DODGERS
The Dodgers have agreed to a deal that will bring Kansas City Royals outfielder Scott Podsednik to Los Angeles, a baseball source told ESPN.com's Jayson Stark on Wednesday. The Royals would receive two minor leaguers.
Podsednik is having a solid year in his only season in Kansas City, batting .309 with 30 steals. That comes after a comeback year with the Chicago White Sox last season in which he hit .304, stole 30 bases and drove in 48 runs.
The Dodgers have been playing short-handed in the outfield, having put Manny Ramirez on the disabled list July 21 with a strained calf. He is more than a week away from returning.
Los Angeles entered Wednesday's play five games out of first in the NL West and 2½ games out of the wild card.
The Dodgers would be Podsednik's fourth team in four seasons. After leaving the White Sox in an injury plagued 2007, he played for the Rockies but appeared in only 93 games.
His only All-Star appearance came in the White Sox's 2005 championship season.
Wed, 28 Jul 2010 20:22:43 CDT
TWINS FINISH SWEEP OF KC
KANSAS CITY -- Three times this season the Royals avoided a sweep from the Minnesota broom by salvaging the last game of the series. Not this time.
The Twins completed a three-game sweep Wednesday afternoon with a 6-4 victory over the Royals at Kauffman Stadium. That gave the Twins a 9-3 advantage in the teams' 12 games so far this year with six remaining.
It was the fifth straight win for the Twins and the fourth straight loss for the Royals.
For the third time in this series, the Twins jumped out to a first-inning lead, this time 3-0 against Brian Bannister and all on one swing. Delmon Young followed Denard Span's single and Joe Mauer's double with a three-run shot.
Another homer, a thump to left by Jason Repko, made it 4-0 in the second inning. That upped the homer harvest against Bannister this season to 22, most on the club.
After the Twins' lead got to 5-0, the Royals picked up two runs in the fifth on two-out singles by Yuniesky Betancourt, Scott Podsednik and Willie Bloomquist.
Twins starter Brian Duensing, a left-hander making just his second start this year, worked six innings to boost his record to 4-1 with a 1.83 ERA.
Bannister was pulled after pitching to one batter in the seventh. He gave up five runs on 11 hits in his six-plus innings and hasn't won in his last six starts.
The Royals closed the gap to 5-4 in the eighth on Rick Ankiel's two-out, bases-loaded single off reliever Jose Mijares.
Wed, 28 Jul 2010 16:08:47 CDT
REGIONAL TOURNAMENT CONTINUES IN CLARINDA
The NBC Central USA Regional Tournament is ongoing and continuing in Clarinda at the Home of Eberly Field. Below is the schedule for the rest of the week:
Wednesday, July 28th
Game #6: 4:30 PM - Omaha Diamond Spirit vs. Chillicothe Mudcats - Elimination Game
Game #5: 7:30 PM - Clarinda A's vs. St. Joseph Mustangs
Thursday, July 29th
Game #7: 4:30 PM - Winner of Game 6 vs. Loser of Game 5
Game #8: 7:30 PM - Winner of Game 5 vs. Winner of Game 7
Friday, July 30th
If winner of Game 5 loses Game 8 then Game 9 wll be played if necessary to determine champion
Wed, 28 Jul 2010 11:30:54 CDT
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