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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 ...

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 Cyclones ...

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 ...

’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 ...

Vasconez, Bulldogs put the boots to Bobcat girls

In a head-to-head matchup between two of Class 3A’s leading goal scorers, the Bulldogs got the best of the Bobcats. Ottumwa senior Ilana Vasconez scored two second-half goals to finish off a hat trick in handing the Marshalltown girls’ soccer squad a 3-0 loss on Tuesday night at Leonard ...

Goodman family donates baseballs, softballs to local youth leagues

The family of the late Kevin “Goody” Goodman, a Marshalltown High School alum and former Iowa State University pitcher who made his mark as a youth baseball and softball coach in the area for decades, donated hundreds of balls to the Marshalltown Girls Softball Association and the ...