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Prep Sports Schedule

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Saturday, Oct. 17 Volleyball BCLUW, GMG and North Tama at Iowa Star Conference Tournament, 9 a.m. at Janesville Girls Swimming Marshalltown hosts Bobcat All-Dive Invite, 10 a.m. at Marshalltown YMCA-YWCA Men’s Soccer MCC at Iowa Lakes, 3:30 p.m. Monday, Oct. 19 Regional Volleyball AGWSR at East Marshall, 7 p.m. GMG at Baxter, 7 p.m. Meskwaki at Gladbrook-Reinbeck, 7 p.m. West Marshall at Colfax-Mingo, 7 p.m. Tuesday, Oct. 20 Girls Diving Marshalltown hosts Iowa Alliance Conference meet, 5:30 p.m. College Volleyball Iowa Lakes at MCC, 6 p.m. Regional ...

Hawkeyes' Welker wins third-straight gold at Worlds

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TIMES-REPUBLICAN LAS VEGAS — Fifth-year University of Iowa women’s wrestler Kylie Welker (76 kg) earned her third consecutive gold medal at the U23 World Championships on Thursday night in Las Vegas, Nev. She is the first American and first women’s freestyle wrestler to win three consecutive U23 championships. Welker’s finals match was over in a flash, securing a 10-0 technical fall over Serbia’s Evelin Ujhelji in just 48 seconds. Welker went 4-0 in her bracket and ended each match short of regulation, defeating Poland’s Patrycja Dorta Cuber in the qualifying round and ...

NCAA sues Ohio governor over eligibility rule order

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The NCAA sued the governor of Ohio on Friday, three days after he signed an executive order giving state universities the option of allowing athletes who graduated from high school in 2022 to play a fifth year in college in defiance of the NCAA’s new eligibility rule. NCAA President Charlie Baker called the lawsuit, filed in federal court in Ohio, an “extraordinary step” designed to prevent Gov. Mike DeWine from making it “impossible for all schools to compete on a level playing field.” The lawsuit itself claimed DeWine, a two-term Republican former state attorney general ...

Coleman, Sandvick named first-team all-IAC

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TIMES-REPUBLICAN The Marshalltown girls’ tennis team entered the fall with a new-look lineup, but the Bobcats more than held their own in the Iowa Alliance Conference. The league’s coaches took notice. Six Bobcats were honored with selection to the all-Iowa Alliance Conference girls tennis squad in a vote of its coaches, highlighted by three-time first-team selection Kate Sandvick and first-time honoree Kaelyn Coleman. Both seniors, Sandvick and Coleman were named to the all-IAC first team after a season in which the Bobcats got to within two wins of state and finished just ...

SPORTS SHORTS: No. 17 RedTails hold off Tigers, 2-1

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The Marshalltown Community College men’s soccer team fought off No. 17 Hawkeye CC for as long as it could before eventually falling 2-1 to the RedTails on Wednesday on the MCC campus. Hawkeye (9-4-1, 5-1-1) finally broke through the scoreless tie in the 65th minute on a goal from Enis Ziese, and Luke Hobson made it 2-0 RedTails in the 73rd minute on an assist from Ziese. Marshalltown (3-8-3, 1-3-3) cut the deficit in half in the 88th minute on a goal by Enrico Borges, but the Tigers couldn’t find the equalizer before time expired. The goal by Borges came on one of only two shots ...

Small spenders set to meet in World Series

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NEW YORK — When the Milwaukee defeated the mighty, monied Los Angeles Dodgers on Thursday night, they set up the first World Series between two of baseball’s smallest spenders in 35 years — just as team owners are arguing that clubs like the Brewers need a salary cap to compete consistently. Milwaukee will face Cleveland or Tampa Bay in a best-of-seven series for the title beginning Oct. 23, ensuring two clubs in the bottom half of big league payrolls will play in the World Series for the first time since 1991. The Dodgers, New York Mets and New York Yankees will watch from home ...