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Ayala embarks on final tourney

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CLEVELAND — It will be a battle of former Iowa high school state wrestling champions in the first round of the NCAA Div. I Championships here on Thursday, as Drake Ayala squares off with Marcel Lopez. Ayala, a three-time state champion for the Dodgers and a two-time national runner-up for ...

Iowa Central adds beach volleyball

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Iowa Central continues to lead by example when it comes to junior college athletics. The school announced on Wednesday plans to add women’s beach volleyball to the list of sports offered starting this fall. They will be the first junior college in the state of Iowa to do so. “There’s ...

Horn, Koopman earn top honors

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Hunter Horn and Jakob Koopman barely knew each other as freshmen four seasons ago. The St. Edmond duo made history as seniors, leading the Gaels to their second-ever state championship while being named first team all-state by the Iowa Print Sports Writers Association and Iowa Basketball ...

Tritons end long drought at nationals

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DANVILLE, Ill. — For the first time in nearly 60 years, the Iowa Central men’s basketball squad has scored a victory at the NJCAA National Tournament. The 11th-ranked Tritons received a double-double from Aleix Sempere and used a big first half to top No. 13 Schoolcraft here in the second ...

REDEMPTION

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DES MOINES — Redemption for the St. Edmond boys exactly 365 days after they walked off the state basketball court heartbroken. The top-ranked and No. 1-seeded Gaels captured their second championship in school history when they rallied from a second-half deficit to stun Bellevue Marquette ...

No. 16 Tritons win 15th straight

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The Iowa Central baseball team’s offensive onslaught continued in a weekend series with Dakota County, and as a result, so did the winning. The 16th-ranked Tritons plated 44 runs in sweeping DCTC at Rogers Park, prevailing on Friday in a 17-16 slugfest and then rolling on Saturday, 11-0 and ...