Monday July 17th Local Sports

TODAY:
AM-1300 KGLO, kgloam.com — 1A state baseball quarterfinal — St. Ansgar vs. Remsen St. Mary’s — Pritchard’s Pre-Game 4:15, first pitch 4:30

AM-1300 KGLO — Minnesota Twins at Seattle — pre-game 8:00, first pitch 8:40

CARROLL — St. Ansgar makes their third trip to the state baseball tournament in school history today as they face 3rd-ranked Remsen St. Mary’s in a Class 1A state quarterfinal in Carroll. The Saints are 26-7 on the season after knocking off top-ranked Newman in a substate final last week. The Hawks have won 23 straight games and are 29-2 on the year, with their only losses of the season being to fellow Class 1A state qualifiers 2nd-ranked Kingsley-Pierson and 10th-ranked LeMars Gehlen in late May. Sophomore Jayce Schweisow leads St. Ansgar offensively with a .451 batting average and 32 runs batted in and has teamed up with senior Tate Mayer for 16 of the Saints 26 wins from the mound. Jaxon Bunkers leads St. Mary’s with a .475 batting average and has won seven games from the mound, striking out 63 on the season. You can hear the St. Ansgar-Remsen St. Mary’s game on AM-1300 KGLO and kgloam.com starting with the Pritchard’s Pre-Game at about 4:15 this afternoon, with the first pitch scheduled for 4:30. The winner will face either LeMars Gehlen or Lynnville-Sully in Wednesday’s semifinals.

— Class 1A state baseball quarterfinals today in Carroll
11:00 — Kingsley-Pierson (27-2) vs. South Winneshiek (24-11)
1:30 — Burlington Notre Dame (26-6) vs. Lisbon (25-4)
4:30 — St. Ansgar (26-7) vs. Remsen St. Mary’s (29-2)
7:00 — Lynnville-Sully (28-1) vs. LeMars Gehlen (23-5)

— Class 3A state baseball quarterfinals today in Iowa City
11:30 — North Polk (27-5) vs. Spencer (23-7)
2:00 — Marion (30-6) vs. Carlisle (22-12)
5:00 — Western Dubuque (33-9) vs. Harlan (22-14)
7:30 — Dubuque Wahlert (29-13) vs. Ballard (21-10)

FORT DODGE — The state softball tournament starts its five-day run in Fort Dodge today:
— Class 5A state quarterfinals Monday
11:00 — #1 Ankeny Centennial (33-5) vs. #8 Bettendorf (29-10)
11:30 — #4 Southeast Polk (30-9) vs. #5 West Des Moines Valley (34-8)
1:00 — #2 Ankeny (31-6) vs. #7 Muscatine (32-6)
1:30 — #3 Waukee Northwest (31-11) vs. #6 Pleasant Valley (30-9)

— Class 4A state quarterfinals Monday
3:00 — #2 Carlisle (30-6) vs. #7 Winterset (25-12)
3:30 — #3 Fort Dodge (31-9) vs. #6 ADM (24-12)
5:00 — #1 North Polk (30-4) vs. #8 North Scott (26-11)
5:30 — #4 Norwalk (31-9) vs. #5 Western Dubuque (29-9)

— Class 3A state quarterfinals Monday
7:00 PM Monday — #1 Williamsburg (33-9) vs. #8 Albia (21-8)
7:30 PM Monday — #4 Davis County (24-4) vs. #5 Estherville Lincoln Central (31-3)

OAKLAND, Calif. (AP) — Alex Kirilloff homered in the fifth inning and hit a three-run double in the seventh, rallying the Minnesota Twins to a 5-4 victory over the Oakland Athletics and a series sweep. Christian Vázquez also connected for the Twins, who hadn’t defeated the A’s three straight in Oakland since July 1997. Jordan Diaz homered and drove in two runs for the last-place A’s. Losers of seven straight, Oakland has been swept 13 times this season. The game at the Coliseum drew a crowd of 9,335, marking the 26th time in 47 home games the attendance has been below 10,000.

== The Twins now head off to Seattle for a four-game series that starts tonight with an 8:40 first pitch, with the pre-game starting at 8 o’clock on AM-1300 KGLO.

IOWA CITY — The founder of the Prime Time and Game Time leagues in eastern Iowa and longtime supporter of both the University of Iowa men’s and women’s basketball programs has passed away. Randy Larson was a longtime Iowa City lawyer who ran the Prime Time League for 31 years, ending in 2018 after serving as an offseason competition for members of the Iowa team, with Northern Iowa players eventually joining in. Larson later worked with Iowa women’s coach Lisa Bluder in starting a similar program for women student-athletes. Larson also was the head boys basketball coach at Iowa City Regina for seven seasons, compiling a 95-69 record. The University of Iowa says Larson passed away over the weekend.

IOWA CITY — Iowa quarterback Cade McNamara likes the potential of the Hawkeyes for next season. McNamara transferred from Michigan and takes the helm of an offense that was one of the worst in the country last season.