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Fever guards cook Connecticut, 111-91

INDIANAPOLIS — Caitlin Clark and Kelsey Mitchell each scored 34 points as the the Indiana Fever got past the Connecticut Sun 111-91 on Friday. The pair scored 30 or more for the fourth game this season, extending their WNBA single-season record for a duo. Clark added 12 assists, marking ...

Pollard elevated to head softball coach at NICC

PEOSTA — The Northeast Iowa Community College softball team wrapped up its first competitive season this spring with a 24-32 record, and head coach Nick Weinmeister handed all that forward momentum to a former Bobcat. Marshalltown High School graduate Kailee Pollard, an assistant under ...

Rams get revenge against MHS netters

PLEASANT HILL — The Southeast Polk girls tennis team took advantage of its second chance against a shorthanded Marshalltown lineup, knocking off the Bobcats 9-2 on Friday in the rematch of their first meeting a week ago. Marshalltown (4-5) outlasted the Rams 6-5 in their showdown seven days earlier at the Hawkette Invite in Ankeny, but the absence of the Bobcats’ top singles player was too much for MHS to overcome. The Bobcats got a singles win from Hanna Osgood at No. 2, knocking off Jordan Evans 8-5, but Southeast Polk (1-6) won the rest of the singles bouts. Osgood teamed with ...

SPORTS SHORTS: Comets claim season-opening triangular

TIMES-REPUBLICAN ELDORA — The Class 1A No. 11 BCLUW volleyball team lost its first set of the season before settling in to sweep a non-conference triangular on Thursday night. The Comets (2-0) tackled South Hardin 17-25, 25-14, 15-11, before blanking South Hamilton 25-16, 25-20 to claim the sweep. Raine Sireno scored nine kills, Cambria Wayman had eight and Kennedy Davis seven as the Comets rallied past the host Tigers (1-1). Sally Ramirez racked up 16 assists and Wayman added 10 to the attack. Brinna Benson led the BCLUW defense with 13 digs, while Davis and Wayman had two ...

’Cats catch worm at Early Bird

Preston Johnson’s first race of his senior season was more than a minute slower than in the same race a year ago. Senioritis? Far from it. The Marshalltown High School cross country juggernaut notched first place at Thursday’s season-opening Bobcat Early Bird, easing across the finish ...

Cyclone warning in State College

STATE COLLEGE, Pa. — No. 18 Penn State is starting fresh with new coach Matt Campbell, who’s spent the last few months reassembling a program that crumbled last season. After entering 2025 as College Football Playoff hopefuls, the Nittany Lions went flat to start Big Ten play. Longtime ...