Friday July 19th Local Sports

THIS WEEKEND:

=== FRIDAY (The following games have time changes due to the Excessive Heat Warning)
– AM-1490/96.7-FM KRIB, kribam.com — 3A district baseball at Waverly — Clear Lake vs. Charles City — 6:00 first pitch

– AM-1300 KGLO, kgloam.com — 4A substate baseball — Mason City High vs. Des Moines Lincoln — 8:00 first pitch

=== SATURDAY
– AM-1300 KGLO, kgloam.com — 1A district baseball — Newman vs. West Fork — 7:00 first pitch

MASON CITY — 10th-ranked Mason City opens up substate baseball tournament play at home against Des Moines Lincoln tonight. Mason City is 24-14 on the season, having won six of their last nine contests, including splitting a doubleheader earlier this week with 4th-ranked Ankeny Centennial and blowing out Clear Lake. Lincoln comes in with a record of 15-23. You can hear the Mason City-Des Moines Lincoln game tonight on AM-1300 KGLO and kgloam.com — the start time has been changed due to the excessive heat warning. First pitch at Roosevelt Field is now scheduled for 8 o’clock. In the other games in Class 4A Substate 2, 7th-ranked Des Moines Roosevelt hosts Des Moines Hoover while Fort Dodge is at Ankeny.

WAVERLY — Class 3A baseball teams have district semifinals tonight. In Waverly, Clear Lake will face Charles City in the first of two games, followed by Waverly-Shell Rock hosting Hampton-Dumont-CAL. Clear Lake is 15-14 on the season, beating Charles City in the season opener 14-4. Charles City is 16-16, having finished third in the Northeast Iowa Conference. You can hear the Clear Lake-Charles City game on AM-1490/96.7-FM KRIB and kribam.com — the start time has been changed due to the excessive heat warning. This game will now start at 6 o’clock. The Waverly-Shell Rock and Hampton-Dumont-CAL game is now scheduled for an 8 o’clock first pitch. The winners will face each other in the district final in Waverly on Monday.

MASON CITY — District championship games will take place in Classes 1A and 2A tomorrow night:

== In Class 1A District 4, top-ranked Newman hosts West Fork. The Knights are 33-3 on the season after beating Central Springs 12-2 in the district semifinal on Tuesday. West Fork advanced to the district championship with a 10-2 win over North Iowa. Newman beat West Fork 12-2 back on July 10th. You can hear the Newman-West Fork game on AM-1300 KGLO and kgloam.com starting at about 7 o’clock. The winner will face either Sioux Central or Newell-Fonda in the substate final in Algona on Tuesday.

== In Class 1A District 5, St. Ansgar hosts North Butler. The Saints are 24-9 after downing Rockford in the district semifinals on Tuesday, while the Bearcats are 13-9 after slipping past Janesville 6-5 in the other district semifinal. St. Ansgar took a 9-0 victory from North Butler back on May 28th. The winner will face either Wapsie Valley or South Winneshiek in the substate championship game in Decorah on Tuesday.

== In Class 2A District 3, Osage travels to 7th-ranked New Hampton. The Green Devils are 18-6 after beating Forest City 8-5 in the district semifinals on Tuesday. New Hampton comes in at 26-9 after a 3-0 win over Lake Mills in the district semifinals. The winner will face either Cascade or Oelwein in the substate championship game in Waverly on Tuesday.

MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — Pinch-hitter Eddie Rosario drove a go-ahead, three-run homer on the first pitch from reliever Yusmeiro Petit in the seventh inning and the Minnesota Twins beat the Oakland Athletics 6-3. With one powerful swing, Rosario produced the first pinch-hit homer of the year for the Twins and helped snap their season-high three-game losing streak. Mitch Garver and C.J. Cron each went deep in the eighth to pad the lead.

MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — The Minnesota Timberwolves have signed rookie center Naz Reid to a multiyear contract. This upgrades the two-way deal they initially gave him before a strong performance for the team’s entry in the NBA Summer League in Las Vegas. The new contract all but ensures that Reid will be on the regular-season roster after going undrafted out of LSU. The 6-foot-10, 250-pound Reid averaged 11.9 points and 5.4 rebounds in 18.6 minutes over seven Summer League games.

NEWTON — The Indy cars return to the Iowa Speedway this weekend and officials are still looking for a sponsor for the race in the future. Sponsored by Iowa Corn since the first race back in 2007 Saturday night’s event will be called the Iowa 300.