STATE CENTER — When Lillian Fischer launched a three-run home run in last year’s Rose Festival Tournament final, it gave the West Marshall softball team a momentary lead in an eventual 10-inning loss to East Marshall. This year’s two-run bomb by Fischer was the finishing touch the ...

Four members of the Marshalltown girls’ soccer team were unanimously selected to the Iowa Alliance Conference’s all-North Division first team in a vote of the league’s coaches. Seniors McKenna Coleman and Gissel Hernandez Ibarra were joined by junior Jorja Janssen and freshman Fatima ...

The seventh-highest scoring team in Class 4A was honored accordingly on its all-conference squads. The Marshalltown boys’ soccer team had four first-team honorees, five second-team picks and a pair of honorable mention selections on the season-ending all-Iowa Alliance Conference North ...

Indiana star Caitlin Clark has an early lead in the fan voting for next month’s WNBA All-Star Game, the league announced Friday. The guard received 515,993 votes and was followed by Minnesota Lynx forward Napheesa Collier, who garnered 484,758 votes. There were three other Indiana players ...

DES MOINES — Sophomore Briley Danielson had five hits and pitched the Marshalltown softball team to one of its two victories in a doubleheader sweep of Des Moines East in Thursday’s Iowa Alliance Conference games. The Bobcats (10-10) ran their win streak to six with wins of 9-6 and 10-9, ...

CARROLL — The West Marshall baseball team scored 10 unanswered runs to dash past Carroll Kuemper for a 13-3, six inning victory in Thursday’s non-conference clash at Merchants Park. The two teams were tied at 3-all after three innings before the visiting Trojans (13-6) scored twice in the ...