Monday June 13th Local Sports

TONIGHT:
== AM-1490/96.7-FM KRIB, kribam.com — Clear Lake baseball at Algona — 7:30

== AM-1300 KGLO — Minnesota Twins at Seattle — pre-game 8:30, first pitch 9:10

 

 

MASON CITY — NIACC has hired a new baseball coach. Josh Merrill was an assistant coach at the University of Southern Indiana this spring and now has been hired to take over the Trojans baseball program. Merrill takes over for interim coach Lincoln Hochmuth, who was the 2022 Iowa Community College Athletic Conference coach of the year, leading NIACC to a 34-19 record. Merrill says in a written statement that with the program’s recent history of success, he’s just looking to enhance that, that it’s not something that needs to be rebuilt or fixed. Before his one season at Southern Indiana, he was an assistant coach at Neosho County Community College in Kansas. Merrill will be the third head coach for the program since Travis Hergert left after the 2019 season.

 

MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — Jeffrey Springs threw two-hit ball into the sixth inning, Randy Arozarena stole two bases after twice getting hit by pitches and the Tampa Bay Rays beat the Minnesota Twins 6-0. Springs continued his impressive transition to the starting rotation. He struck out five and walked two in 5 1/3 innings against a Twins team that had scored a combined 15 runs in winning the first two games of the series. Arozarena was hit by a pair of pitches twice and visibly upset with Minnesota starter Cole Sands. Arozarena then stole two bases and added an RBI double. Kevin Kiermaier hit a solo home run.

 

 

BOONE — Class 1A and 2A baseball teams late Friday afternoon learned the schools they will be grouped with in post-season play:

 

== 1A Substate 2
– District 4 — Newman, Lake Mills, North Iowa, St. Edmond of Fort Dodge, West Bend-Mallard, West Fork, West Hancock
– District 3 — Alta/Aurelia, Bishop Garrigan of Algona, Graettinger-Terril/Ruthven-Ayrshire, Harris-Lake Park, Harley-Melvin-Sanborn, Marcus-Meridan-Cleghorn-Remsen-Union, North Union, South O’Brien

 

== 1A Substate 3
– District 5 — Nashua-Plainfield, North Butler, Northwood-Kensett, Riceville, Rockford, St. Ansgar, South Winneshiek, Turkey Valley
– District 6 — Central City, Clarksville, Dunkerton, East Buchanan, Edgewood-Colesburg, Janesville, Kee

 

== 2A Substate 3
– District 5 — Clear Lake, Central Springs, Clarion-Goldfield-Dows, Forest City, Garner-Hayfield-Ventura, Osage
– District 6 — Aplington-Parkersburg, Dike-New Hartford, Grundy Center, Roland-Story, South Hamilton, South Hardin

 

Full district pairings will be released sometime next week following coaches’ seeding meetings. First round games in Classes 1A and 2A are scheduled for Saturday July 2nd.

 

 

 

NEW YORK — Mo Donegal became the first Iowa-owned horse to win a Triple Crown race on Saturday by pulling away down the stretch to win the Belmont Stakes in New York. Des Moines attorney Jerry Crawford heads up Donegal Racing.

Crawford talks about the feeling he had watching his horse win.

Crawford says he has over four dozen partners that make up Donegal Racing.

Mo Donegal rounded the 1 1/2-mile track in 2 minutes, 28.28 seconds, ahead of Nest and Skippylongstocking.

 

 

MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — NaLyssa Smith had 21 points and 14 rebounds and Indiana closed the game on a 11-4 run to beat the Minnesota Lynx 84-80. Victoria Vivians added 15 points and hit two 3-pointers during the game-ending run to help the Fever end a five-game skid. Danielle Robinson scored 16 points and Kelsey Mitchell added 15 for the Fever (4-12). Nikolina Milic had a career-high 23 points on 11-of-19 shooting for Minnesota and Aerial Powers added 15 points, 11 rebounds and seven assists.