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McCarron won’t play Sunday for Battlehawks
The left ankle injury Battlehawks quarterback A.J. McCarron suffered in last weekend’s loss to Birmingham will keep him out of this Sunday’s game against the DC Defenders. McCarron took a late hit from a Birmingham Stallions player last Saturday that caused the ankle injury. The veteran QB did finish that game. McCarron practiced this week along with the Battlehawks other two quarterbacks, but was deemed unavailable on Friday for their Sunday game at the Dome in St. Louis.
St. Louis City’s Eduard Löwen says his wife has brain cancer
ST. LOUIS — St. Louis City SC midfielder Eduard Löwen told reporters at a news conference Thursday that his wife has been diagnosed with brain cancer. “It was kind out of nowhere,” Löwen said to reporters. “My wife has had serious health issues. It got worse and worse, and then she ended up having surgery. […]
IVC Girls Hoops’ Anderson to Play for Missouri Baptist
HOLTVILLE — Imperial Valley College graduate and Desert Warrior basketball player Orian Anderson has signed her letter of intent to continue her academic and athletic career at Missouri Baptist University in St. Louis, Missouri. “Her maturity. Her leadership. Her passion more than anything, you know, is what got her...
College baseball needs more Black players. A tiny Kansas school has a unique approach to recruiting
Kansas Christian College, in Overland Park, is bucking a trend. In a collegiate sport where African American representation is in short supply, almost a third of the private school’s student-athletes in baseball are Black. “It’s been our mission, in the very beginning when I was hired to take on...
This week in Sports 5/10 – 5/16
The Knights finished fifth with 91.5 points at the MIAC Outdoor Championships, turning in many strong performances, including All-MIAC (1-3 individual and relay) and All-MIAC Honorable Mention (4-6 individual and 4th place relay). Katie Hirsche `25 scored two points with a seventh-place finish in the 10,000-meter event, Aliya Larsen `26 scored two points with eighth-place finishes in the 1500-meter event (a PB of 4:49.72) and the 5,000-meter event, Riley Roberts `24 ran as part of the 4×100-meter relay (tied for sixth with a season’s best of 50.266), 4×400-meter relay, and placed eighth in the 100-meter event (12.74, a PB). The team’s All-MIAC performances included Sophie McManus’ win in the 3000-meter steeplechase (10:45.1, second all-time at Carleton and a likely NCAA qualifier) and a sixth-place finish for honorable mention in the 1500-meter run. Libby Rowland `25 ran as part of the 4×800-meter relay who were the runner-ups and was the runner-up in the steeplechase (11:20.49, a PB), Mary Blanchard `24 was second in the 800-meter run (2:11.57, a season’s best), fourth in the 1500-meter run, and ran as part of the 4×400 relay. Lara Erickson `25 finished fifth in the 800-meter event (2:16.61, a PB) and ran as part of the runner-up 4×800-meter relay. Hannah Preisser `26 finished sixth in the 10,000 meters and fourth in the 5,000 meters. Phoebe Ward `24 ran a PB of 35:54.26 for third in the 10,000 meters and also placed third in the 5,000 meters. Helen Cross `24 finished third in the 1,500-meter run and second in the 5,000-meter run. Nora Daley `27 and Alice Cutter `24 ran as part of the 4×800-meter relay. Up next for individually qualified Knights is the NCAA Outdoor Championships on May 23-25. Blanchard ran the 800, finishing ninth in 2:12.03, and Ward ran a 10,000-meter race solo, setting a meet record to finish out her Carleton career, in Illinois at the Augustana Last Chance meet on May 15.
Extra Time: Episode 10
ST. LOUIS, Mo. (First Alert 4) - In this week’s episode of Extra Time, sponsored by Purina, the Sports on 4 team previews CITY SC’s upcoming match against FC Cincinnati, sits down for a 1v1 with midfielder Rasmus Alm and sits down with the co-owner of Saucy Porka in celebration of Asian American, Native Hawaiian and Pacific Islander Heritage Month.
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