KWBG Sports for May 21st

  LOS ANGELES (AP) - The San Antonio Spurs have advanced to the NBA's Western Conference finals as Tim Duncan finished with 21 points and nine rebounds in a 102-99 triumph over the Los Angeles Clippers. Tony Parker finished with 17 points, including consecutive baskets after the Clippers went ahead 97-96 with 2:27 remaining. The Spurs have swept both of their first two playoff rounds and own an 18-game winning streak dating to the regular season.

     INDIANAPOLIS (AP) - The Miami Heat have evened their NBA Eastern Conference semifinal series at two games apiece with yesterday's 101-93 comeback win over the Pacers at Indianapolis. LeBron James and Dwyane (dwayn) Wade combined for 23 points during a 25-5 spurt that put the Heat ahead 77-66 in the second half. James finished with 40 points, 18 rebounds and nine assists, and Wade contributed 22 of his 30 points after intermission.

     LOS ANGELES (AP) - Mike Smith stopped 36 shots, Shane Doan scored twice and the Phoenix Coyotes avoided a sweep in the NHL's Western Conference finals by defeating the Kings 2-0 in Los Angeles. Doan notched a power-play goal in the first period and also tallied in the second stanza to support Smith's third shutout of the postseason. Jonathan Quick handled 19 shots for the Kings, who lost for only the second time in 13 games this postseason.

     NEW YORK (AP) - The New York Rangers will be without forward Brandon Prust tonight for Game 4 of the NHL's Eastern Conference finals, which the Blueshirts lead 2-1. Prust has been suspended for one game by the NHL for his elbow to the head of New Jersey Devils defenseman Anton Volchenkov during New York's win in Game 3.

     UNDATED (AP) - Jason Dufner picked up his second PGA victory in three weeks by edging Dicky Pride by one shot in the Byron Nelson Championship near Dallas. And Azahara Munoz beat Candie Kung 2 and 1 to win the Sybase Match Play Championship, a title that was set up when Morgan Pressel was penalized for slow play while in control of their semifinal match.

Results from Friday's State Track Events

• Boys Long Jump 4A, Boone - Wes Riesselman 13th    21-03.25
• Girls Shot Put 4A, Boone - Lauren Weber 16th    34-03
• Girls Shot Put 4A, Boone - Jill Hansen 14th    34-07.25
• Boys 4x200 Meter Relay 4A, Boone - Colin Green, Dylan McDowell, Mitch Overland,Weston Riesselman 23rd place   1:32.89
• Girls Long Jump 4A, Boone - Bailey Schminke 11th   16-04.5
• Boys 110 Meter Hurdles 4A, Boone - Taylor Pyle   22nd    16.22
• Girls 4x100 Meter Relay 4A, Boone - Bailey Camenisch, Breann Aspengren, Linsey Schminke, Bailey Schmink 19th    50.81
• Boys 4x100 Meter Relay 4A, Boone - Alex Davis, Dylan McDowell, Mitch Overland, Weston Riesselman 20th    44.46
• Girls Discus Throw 1A, Madrid - Naomi Dalton 5th     118-06
• Boys 400 Meter Hurdles 1A, Madrid - Tanner Adams 18th  58.86
• Boys 400 Meter Hurdles 1A, Madrid - Jeremy Johnson    53.91
• Boys 4x200 Meter Relay 1A, Madrid - CJ Manthe, Nic Gibson, Owen Gibbons, Jeremy Johnson 2nd - 1:32.85
• Boys Discus Throw 1A, Madrid  - Sean Loew 12th     145-00
• Boys Discus Throw 1A, Madrid - Clay Kirkpatrick Fouled out
• Boys 110 Meter Hurdles 1A, Madrid - Tanner Adams 17th  16.25
• Boys 4x100 Meter Relay 1A, Madrid - Nick Novotny, Jeremy Johnson, Jacob Clayton, C.J. Manthe 5th    44.48
• Boys Discus Throw 2A, Ogden - Bryon Klauenberg 20th     138-06

DMACC Ends Softball Season
Clinton, Mississippi - With a win followed by a loss on Thursday, the DMACC Women's Softball team repeated the pattern on Friday.  Defeating Mercyhurst College by a score of 4-0, the Lady Bears were unable to repeat the effort in their game against Illinois Central, falling 8-3.

DMACC Bears defeat Mercyhurst in their consolation bracket game by a score of 4-0.  DMACC will advance to the next game which is scheduled to begin at noon today.  Actual start time may vary based on field availability.  KWBG will stream live play by play on kwbg.com.

Results from Thursday's State Track Meet

Boys High Jump from Boone - Bret Kinne placed 13th in the Finals with a jump of 6-00.00

Boys 4x110 Meter Shuttle Hurdle 4A from Boone - Sam Viau, Mitch Overland,Taylor Pyle and Bryan Boesen ranked 21st in the prelims with a time of 1:01.87 .  Do not advance

Boys 3200 Meter Run 4A from Boone - Chandler Austin brings home a 12th place finish   9:44.77

Boys 3200 Meter Run 4A from Boone - Albert Meier comes in 18th in the finals, time of 10:08.41

Girls 4x100 Meter Shuttle Hurdles 4A from Boone -Hailey McDowell,Sammy Clark, Val Zinnel,  and Sara Miller finished 22nd after prelims.  Do not advance

Girls 100 Meter Dash 4A from Boone - Bailey Schminke finished 12th after the prelims.  Did not qualify for the finals

Boys Long Jump 1A from Madrid - Nick Novotny placed 18th overall with a jump 19'-06.25"

Girls Shot Put 1A      from Madrid - Naomi Dalton    placed 11th overall with a throw of 34-11.50

Boys 4x110 Meter Shuttle Hurdle 1A from Madrid - team of Nick Novotny, Tanner Adams, CJ Manthe, and Jeremy Johnson was the top qualifier with time of 58.48.  State Record is 58.79 from 2010

Girls 3000 Meter Run 1A from Madrid - Sydney Lawrence finished 17th with a time of 11:47.12  

Boys Shot Put 1A      from Madrid - Sean Loew finished 6th in the Finals with a distance of 49-06.00

Girls Long Jump 1A from Madrid - Bethany Cairns placed 16th overall with a jump of 15-11.25

Boys Long Jump 2A from Ogden - Jeshua VanSickle finished 5th place overall   21'-01.25"

Girls 400 Meter Dash 2A from Ogden - Madison Diggs placed 16th overall   1:02.49 







Girls tennis Regional results from Thursday.
Singles
  Champion:  Mary Eide, Ft. Dodge St. Edmunds
  2nd Place:  Ellen Chalstrom, Ft. Dodge St. Edmunds
  3rd Place:   Jenna Leland, Ballard


Doubles
  Champion:  Kacci Clarkwilt/Michaela Pearson, Norwalk
  2nd Place:   Kelli Ehrhardt/Kyla McCann, Clarke
  3rd Place:    Kelli Greiner/Courtney Foster, Boone




Daytona Beach, Fl:  The DMACC Women's golf team participated in their national tournament this week from LPGA International in Daytona Beach, Florida taking 10th place out of 17 teams, results as follows:

10 Des Moines Area CC  379 385 377 375 1516
60 Jenny Geer               92 90 90 96 368
62 Mackenzie Watts       90 97 96 87 370
T 65 Kelsie Berke           97 97 89 92 375
T 88 Staci Hillygus       100 101 106 100 407
T 96 Laura Richter       105 104 102 105 416
Redland Community College won the event with a team total of 1176.

KWBG Sports for Thursday May,17th

UNDATED (AP) - The Oklahoma City Thunder ended Game 2 of their Western Conference semifinal against the visiting Lakers on a 9-0 run and beat Los Angeles 77-75 to grab a 2-0 lead in the best-of-seven matchup. Earlier in the evening, the Boston Celtics hammered the 76ers 107-91 in Philadelphia to take a 2-1 lead in their Eastern Conference semifinal.



NEW YORK (AP) - Larry Bird has hit the trifecta. The Pacers president is adding NBA Executive of the Year to a resume that already includes three MVP awards as a player and a trip to the NBA Finals as a coach. He's the only one with all three.



NEW YORK (AP) - The New Jersey Devils evened the NHL Eastern Conference final at a game apiece with a 3-2 road win over the New York Rangers. Dave Clarkson's tip-in goal early in the third period snapped a 2-all tie.



TORONTO (AP) -Brett Lawrie went 0-for-4 and scored a run in Toronto's 8-1 beating of the New York Yankees. The Blue Jays third baseman was playing after appealing a four-game suspension leveled by Major League Baseball for his helmet-throwing incident with an umpire during Tuesday night's outing.



BALTIMORE (AP) - I'll Have Another may have won the Kentucky Derby, but Derby runner-up Bodemeister (BOH'-bee-my-stur) is the pre-race favorite for Saturday's Preakness Stakes at Pimlico. Bodemeister has been installed as an 8-5 favorite for the second jewel of the Triple Crown while I'll Have Another is listed at 5-2.

KWBG Sports for May 14th

 PHOENIX (AP) - The upstart Los Angeles Kings continue to be the surprise team in the NHL playoffs. The eighth-seeded Kings, who knocked off Vancouver and St. Louis in the first two rounds, went on the road and beat Phoenix 3-2 in the opener of the Western Conference finals to improve their road record to 6-0 in this year's playoffs.

     MIAMI (AP) - The Miami Heat rode a 32-point, 15-rebound effort from league MVP LeBron James to beat the Indiana Pacers 95-86 in the opener of their Eastern Conference semifinal playoff. Chris Bosh scored 13 points for Miami, but left late in the first half with a lower abdominal injury and was scheduled for an MRI to determine the extent of the problem.

     MEMPHIS, Tenn. (AP) - For just the third time in their 41-year franchise history, the L.A. Clippers have won a playoff series. Kenyon Martin scored seven of his 11 points in the fourth quarter in the Clippers' 82-72 win over the Memphis Grizzlies in Game 7 of their opening round series to send the Clippers into a second-round matchup against top-seeded San Antonio.

     PONTE VEDRA BEACH, Fla. (AP) - Matt Kuchar (KOO'-char) is this year's winner at The Players Championship, and the $1.7 million first-place check at the so-called fifth major of the golf season. Kuchar stayed out of the water at TPC Sawgrass to post a two-shot victory over Martin Laird, Rickie Fowler, Ben Curtis and Zach Johnson for his fourth career title, and first in two years.

     UNDATED (AP)-- For the first time since 1998, there were two walkoff grand slams in the major leagues yesterday. Joey Votto capped a three-homer game with a walkoff in Cincinnati's 9-6 win over Washington and Giancarlo Stanton also hit a game-ending slam in Miami's 8-4 win against the New York Mets.

KWBG Sports for May 11th

  DENVER (AP) - There will be a Game 7 Saturday night in Los Angeles to decide the Lakers-Nuggets first round series. The Nuggets made sure of that by racing out to a 13-0 lead while the Lakers were missing their first eight shots en route to Denver's 113-96 victory over the Lakers to knot the series at three games apiece behind Ty Lawson's game-high 32.

     PHILADELPHIA (AP)- The Philadelphia 76ers are the fifth No. 8 seed to win a first-round NBA playoff series against a No. 1 seed after dumping the Chicago Bulls 79-78 last night as Andre Iguodala (ihg-woh-DAH'-lah) won it with a couple of free throws with 2.2 seconds left. In his second season, coach Doug Collins has led the Sixers to their first winning season in seven years.

     BOSTON (AP) - The Boston Celtics are the next challenge for Doug Collins and his 76ers with that second-round series starting Saturday night in Boston. The Celtics eliminated the Atlanta Hawks with an 83-80 win in Game 6 led by Kevin Garnett's 28 points, 14 rebounds and five blocks and hit the go-ahead bucket with 31 seconds left.

     PITTSBURGH (AP) - Washington fireballer Stephen Strasburg struck out 13 Pirates in six innings of work in the Nationals' 4-2 win in Pittsburgh last night. Adam LaRoche hit a two-run home run, Roger Bernadina and Rick Ankiel (an-KEEL') added solo shots for the Nats, who own a half-game lead over Atlanta atop the NL East.

     LOS ANGELES (AP) - More than 60 former NFL players have filed a lawsuit in Los Angeles, joining hundreds of others who claim pro football didn't properly protect its players from concussions. The lead plaintiff is Hall of Famer Art Monk, who played wide receiver for the Washington Redskins from 1980 to 1993 and says he suffered multiple concussions that are causing continuing problems to this day.