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SPORTS SHORTS: Mustangs tussle with ranked teams

TIMES-REPUBLICAN LE GRAND — The East Marshall volleyball team finished fourth out of six teams at its own Mustang Round-Robin Tournament on Saturday, going 2-3 on the day. Two of the three losses for East Marshall (11-6) came against ranked teams. The Mustangs opened with a win over West Marshall, 21-15, 21-13, before falling in a three-set thriller to HLV-TC, 19-21, 21-19, 15-12. Class 2A No. 6 Hudson topped the Mustangs 21-15, 21-8, but East Marshall bounced back to beat Vinton-Shellsburg 19-21, 21-15, 15-10. Benton, ranked 12th in 4A, won the finale 21-10, 21-9. Leading the ...

Hawkeyes rally past ISU, 16-13

IOWA CITY — Caden Buhr made a 42-yard field goal with 15 seconds left to give No. 21 Iowa a 16-13 victory over Iowa State on Saturday night. It was a moment Buhr, a second-year player in his first season as Iowa’s starting kicker, has been thinking about for a while. “I think I ...

Riverhawks slip through Bobcats’ grasp

MASON CITY — The Marshalltown football team has held the lead in each of its three losses this season, twice in the fourth quarter. The offense built not to play from behind is struggling to win from ahead. The Bobcats took a seven-point lead with a minute to go in the third quarter before ...

US wins fifth straight women’s FIBA World Cup title

BERLIN — Breanna Stewart had an American flag draped around her body as she soaked in the moment. The U.S. captain delivered again and the Americans continued their domination of international play, winning a fifth straight women’s FIBA World Cup title with a 97-79 victory over France on ...

Johnson claims 5th Champions victory of the season

SIOUX FALLS, S.D. — Zach Johnson won the Sanford International on Sunday for the fifth victory of his first PGA Tour Champions season, birdieing the final two holes to edge Ben Crane by a stroke. The 50-year-old Johnson closed with a 4-under 66 at Minnehaha Country Club to finish at 11 ...

Round 1 goes to Decker

The only finish line that matters is in Fort Dodge. Marshalltown senior Preston Johnson is training to be the first runner to that one, but he’s taking steps to learn how to do it along the way. The reigning Class 4A state cross country runner-up ran into his best competition since last ...