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SPORTS SHORTS: Grabenbauer powers Mustangs past Denver

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DENVER — The East Marshall softball team bagged its fourth-straight win by outlasting Denver 7-4 on Wednesday night, propelled by a six-RBI performance from junior Peyton Grabenbauer. Grabenbauer had an RBI single in the first inning, a two-run single in the second, a single in the fourth ...

Ottumwa feasts on MHS, 16-0 and 21-0

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It’s hard to throw a steak past a hungry wolf. Or in this case — a Bulldog. The Ottumwa baseball team banged out 39 hits and scored 37 runs in a doubleheader sweep of Marshalltown on Wednesday night, making off with wins of 16-0 and 21-0 in a pair of run rule-shortened games at the MHS ...

Bulldogs bust out the broom to sweep Bobcats

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The Ottumwa softball team brought a bit more experience to Marshalltown and made it show with Wednesday’s doubleheader sweep. The visiting Bulldogs batted around at least once in each game of the Iowa Alliance Conference twinbill, taking down the Bobcats 10-0 in four innings and 12-3 in five ...

Bell honored as Starter of the Year

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Long-time Marshalltown High School athletic director and boys cross country coach Tim Bell was named by the Iowa Association of Track Officials (IATO) as the Starter of the Year for girls track and field. Last season, Bell was awarded the Starter of the Year for boys track and field in a vote ...

Pacers rally past Thunder for 2-1 lead

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INDIANAPOLIS — Every time Indiana has lost a game in the last three months, it simply has come back to win the next one. Even in the NBA Finals — against a huge favorite who the Pacers now have in some trouble. Bennedict Mathurin scored 27 points off the bench, Tyrese Haliburton finished ...

West Marshall stumped by No. 4 PCM, 6-0

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MONROE — West Marshall put its first two batters on base in the opening inning of the Trojans’ Heart of Iowa Athletic Conference matchup against PCM on Wednesday. But Mustang starter Rylee Parsons got out of the jam with consecutive strikeouts. It turned out to be West Marshall’s ...