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Two more Tigers taking the next step

A pair of Marshalltown Community College women’s basketball players have made their commitments to the next level. Tiger sophomores Kenijae Cherry and Olivia Heartwell have signed to continue their basketball careers with four-year programs, the school announced this week. Cherry, a ...

Clark versus Bueckers draws 2.5M TV viewers

NEW YORK — The matchup between Indiana’s Caitlin Clark and Dallas’ Paige Bueckers on the WNBA’s opening weekend averaged 2.49 million viewers on ABC, making it the league’s second-most watched regular-season game on ABC or ESPN. Dallas’ 107-104 victory was also the 14th most-viewed sports event of the past week, according to numbers released Wednesday by Nielsen’s Big Data + Panel. The top 12 sports programs were NBA playoff games. Saturday’s game featured the last four No. 1 picks in the WNBA draft: Aliyah Boston and Clark of the Fever, and Bueckers and Azzi Fudd of ...

Maldonado joins ISU as wrestling assistant

AMES — Former Little Rock associate head coach Javier Maldonado has been added to the Iowa State men’s wrestling staff as an assistant coach, new head coach Brent Metcalf announced. Maldonado, Little Rock’s first assistant coach after the program’s creation in 2019, joins the ...

Mustangs march on

WYOMING — East Marshall senior Cody Weaver claimed medalist honors by a whopping nine strokes and the Mustangs advanced to districts with the sectional title on Wednesday at the Class 1A meet at Little Bear Country Club. Weaver shot a 1-under-par round of 71 to lead the field to the finish ...

Bobcats’ Friday Night Lights football camp announced

The Marshalltown Bobcat Football program has announced its Friday Night Lights Youth/Middle School Camp for Friday, Aug. 7, under the lights at Leonard Cole Field. The free camp for all youth going into grades 3-8 will serve as a mini-clinic for all Marshalltown Football League (MFL) and middle school football players with instruction from the Marshalltown High School football staff and current Bobcat players. The camp will take place from 7-9 p.m. To register, go online to www.gobound.com/ia/schools/marshalltown/camps.

’Cats claim conference crown

DES MOINES — Three years after winning the inaugural Iowa Alliance Conference North Division crown, the Marshalltown girls’ golf team has claimed the throne over the entire league. Three Bobcat golfers finished in the top seven and Marshalltown earned the Alliance title, winning ...