Friday May 3rd Local Sports
THIS WEEKEND ON AM-1300 KGLO:
== FRIDAY — Minnesota Twins vs. Boston — pre-game 6:30, first pitch 7:10
== SATURDAY — Minnesota Twins vs. Boston — pre-game 12:30, first pitch 1:10
== SUNDAY — Minnesota Twins vs. Boston — Inside Twins 12:00, pre-game 12:30, first pitch 1:10
HAMPTON — The Clear Lake girls track team has won the North Central Conference title for the third year in a row. The Lions had 172 ½ points to capture the title in the meet held in Hampton. Algona was second with 135 ½, with St. Edmond third with 92. No individual results were immediately available.
CLARION — The Clear Lake boys track team finished second to Algona in the North Central Conference track meet held in Clarion on Thursday. The Bulldogs finished with 150 points, nine ahead of the Lions and 23 points ahead of third-place Humboldt. The Lions won three events, with Dylan Litzel winning the high jump with a leap of 6-foot-3. Clear Lake also won the 4×100 and 800 medley relay races.
WEBSTER CITY — The Clear Lake boys won the Webster City Lynx Invitational golf tournament on Thursday. The Lions shot a 309, with Gilbert second with a 316. Ballard was third with a 326.
— other boys golf
Northwood-Kensett 182, Glenville-Emmons 190 (Cade Helgeson, NK, 42)
CLEAR LAKE — The Clear Lake girls won a North Central Conference event that hosted five teams at the Veterans Memorial Golf Club in Clear Lake. The Lions finished with a team score of 188. Hampton-Dumont-CAL was second with 201, followed by Iowa Falls-Alden, St. Edmond and Clarion-Goldfield-Dows.
— other girls golf
Grundy Center 197, Newman 205, Nashua-Plainfield 208, Crestwood 208
Belmond-Klemme 201, West Fork 207 (Quinn Gabrielson, BK, 41)
— boys soccer
Clear Lake 6, Gilbert 0
— girls soccer
Mason City 3, Clear Lake 0
Webster City 4, Wright County 0
BOONE — The 20th-ranked NIACC softball team plays in the Region 11-B Tournament in Boone this weekend. The Trojans are the second-highest seed in the regional tournament and will face Iowa Lakes in a first-round game scheduled for 4 o’clock this afternoon. Top-seed DMACC will face Hawkeye Community College in the tournament opener at 2 o’clock. The winners of today’s games will meet on Saturday afternoon, with the losers playing back through the double-elimination bracket. The regional championship game is slated for Sunday. The winner of the 11-B tournament will travel to play the winner of Region 13 next weekend, with the winner of that tournament heading to the national tournament May 20th through the 25th in Spartanburg South Carolina.
DES MOINES (AP) — An Iowa criminal investigator suggested to colleagues last year that busting college athletes for online sports betting would impress the public and the powers that be. Division of Criminal Investigation special agent Christopher Adkins wrote in his February 2023 email that if players get suspended or lose scholarships, so be it. Attorneys for more than two dozen Iowa and Iowa State athletes caught in a 2023 gambling sting obtained Adkins’ email and 32 others through an open records request. The athletes filed a civil lawsuit last week against the state and its public safety and criminal investigation agencies for violating the athletes’ rights and damaging their reputations. The lawsuit seeks unspecified damages. The athletes’ attorneys contend tracking software data was illegally obtained because there was no search warrant issued.
IOWA CITY — The University of Iowa baseball team hosts their final home series of the season beginning tonight against Northwestern. Iowa is 10-8 and currently sixth in the league race and the top eight teams qualify for the Big Ten Tournament. The Wildcats are at the bottom of the conference standings with a 2-13 record under first year coach Ben Greenspan.
That’s Iowa coach Rick Heller who says the Hawkeyes won’t take Northwestern lightly.
Heller says recent history shows this will be a competitive series.
After this weekend’s series with Northwestern, Iowa closes out Big Ten play with a trip to Illinois next weekend.
MINNEAPOLIS — Former Iowa State star Bridget Carleton is getting ready for her sixth season in the WNBA with the Minnesota Lynx. Carleton appeared in 38 games a year ago and averaged just over four points per game. She is coming off a successful season overseas in Hungary.
Carleton played for the Canadian National Team that took part in an Olympic qualifying tournament in February and is expected to be part of the team that will compete in the Paris Olympics.
The WNBA will take a month-long break for the Olympics.
An influx of talented rookies is bringing added interest into the upcoming season.
The Lynx open their preseason schedule on Friday night by hosting the Chicago Sky.
