TIMES-REPUBLICAN DES MOINES — Class 2A No. 6 Grand View Christian made one more play than the West Marshall softball team to deny the 12th-ranked Trojans the upset, granting the Thunder a 3-2 victory in Monday’s Heart of Iowa Conference showdown. West Marshall (10-6, 7-3) manufactured ...

AMES — Iowa State redshirt sophomore Cameron Pettaway has been named to the Jet Award Preseason Watch List, awarded annually to college football’s top return specialist. Pettaway, a transfer running back from Bowling Green, was first-team all-Mid-American Conference as a kick returner ...

AMES — Iowa State has added Laura Harmon as the head women’s cross country coach and assistant track coach. ISU director of track and field/cross country Jeremy Sudbury announced the hiring of Harmon, who spent the last four seasons in similar roles at Washington State. “This is an ...

By STEPHEN HAWKINS THE ASSOCIATED PRESS The NCAA asked a Texas appeals court Monday to stay a temporary injunction that cleared the way for Texas Tech quarterback Brendan Sorsby to play this fall despite being declared ineligible for gambling while the Big 12 Conference filed a federal ...

BROOKLYN — The Class 2A No. 8 East Marshall softball team scored a pair of narrow victories on Saturday at the BGM Triangular, beating Twin Cedars 3-2 and the host Bears 5-2. Against BGM, The Mustangs broke a 2-all tie with three runs in the top of the fifth inning. Libby Atcher hit a ...

CONRAD — The first of three-straight tournament weekends treated the Marshalltown softball team pretty well. The Bobcats blasted a pair of North Iowa Cedar League opponents on Saturday, outscoring South Hardin 10-1 and AGWSR 17-7 to close out a 2-1 showing at BCLUW’s Dave Lee ...