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Singleton leads No. 18 ISU past Southern Miss

AMES — Tre Singleton scored 19 of his career-high 28 points in the first half to lead No. 18 Iowa State past Southern Mississippi 83-57 on Friday night. The Cyclones (1-1), who lost their opener to Memphis on a neutral court Monday, have won nine straight home openers and 25 of their last 26. Iowa State dominated inside in the first half, outscoring the Golden Eagles 26-6 in the paint while jumping out to a 46-29 halftime lead. The Cyclones took a double-digit lead late in the first half on Dominykas Pleta’s fast-break dunk, and they were up by 29 in the middle of the first ...

Iowa’s bench buries Eastern Illinois

IOWA CITY — Peyton McCollum scored 14 points and fellow reserve Ty’Reek Coleman scored 13 as Iowa’s bench alone outscored Eastern Illinois in a 91-47 victory on Friday. Backup Tre Thompson scored 11 points as the Hawkeyes (2-0) bench scored 61 points. Tate Sage was the only Iowa starter in double-figures scoring with 10. Collectively, Iowa shot 33 of 52 (63%), including 14 of 30 (47%) from 3-point range. Reserve Tanner Vogel scored 11 points and grabbed 11 rebounds for Eastern Illinois (0-2). Isaia Howard threw down a dunk with 13:42 before halftime to give Iowa its first ...

11th heaven

JOHNSTON — The two weeks leading up to the state-qualifying meet went toward board work and fine-tuning her dive list. And stressing. For Marshalltown senior Harlie Thatcher, all that tension melted away by the time she had completed her 11-dive routine and finished in fourth place in the ...

Jayhawks pull away from Drake women

TIMES-REPUBLICAN LAWRENCE, Kan. — The Drake women’s basketball team got outscored 16-1 over the final five and a half minutes of the second quarter as Kansas pulled away for a 74-49 victory over the Bulldogs on Friday at Allen Fieldhouse. Drake (1-1) used a 12-5 run to get within 26-23 of host Kansas (2-0), forcing a timeout, but it was all Jayhawks from there. Kansas poured it on and pulled out to a 42-24 halftime lead, and the deficit never shrank below 16 the rest of the way. “We fought and scrapped, but there weren’t too many positives today,” said Drake head coach ...

Rebels crush CRB to reach Final Four

TIMES-REPUBLICAN GLADBROOK — Sixth-ranked Gladbrook-Reinbeck is headed back to the UNI-Dome. The Rebels rocked Coon Rapids-Bayard on Thursday night, winning 56-8 in the 8-Man state football playoff quarterfinals at ‘The Pit.’ G-R got out to a 41-0 halftime lead and eased its way back to the final four. Rebel sophomore Laken Thesing had three touchdown receptions on offense and three takeaways on defense, helping Gladbrook-Reinbeck (11-0) roll through to the next round. Coon Rapids-Bayard (8-4) didn’t get on the scoreboard until the fourth quarter. G-R quarterback Bennett ...

Tigers too much for Mount Mercy

The scoreboard provided a fair representation of the causal effect of the principles Marshalltown Community College men’s basketball coach Ryan Flack was trying to impress upon his squad in Wednesday’s home opener. When the Tigers apply their practice ideals in games and play to the level ...