The Marshalltown boys golf team came home with the Championship from
the Mark Mann Invitational in Mason City with a 12 shot victory over runner-up
Waterloo West. The Bobcats 297 total came from Jake Butler (73)..Jamie
Bjorkman, John Ryan (74) and Jordan Alley 76.
With the first regular season football game on Friday for the area high schools,
a reminder to Gladbrook Reinbeck fans. The game against Garner Hayfield is
a 7 PM start with the game being played at Wartburg College in Waverly.
The MarshallTown Quarterback Club will hold weekly noon meetings beginning
this Friday (august 29th)..featuring fall sports coaches.
Olympic medalist Shawn Johnson had her return home delayed Monday as
she was guest on the David Letterman Show on CBS Monday night. A reception
is scheduled tonight at Wells Fargo Arena in Des Moines. Doors open at 530 PM.
DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) - Two Drake athletes have been honored as
co-recipients of the school's outstanding student-athlete award.
Adam Emmenecker and Jill Martin on Monday were given the Tim and
Jerry Howlett Memorial Award during the annual Bulldog Corn Feed
Monday night at Drake's Knapp Center.
Emmenecker led the men's basketball team to the Missouri Valley
Conference regular-season title last year and the team's first NCAA
Tournament berth since 1971. He set a single-season school record
in the process with 213 assists, and earned an honorable mention on
the Associated Press All-America men's basketball team.
Martin was a three-time first-team All-Missouri Valley
Conference player, the fourth player in the school's women's
basketball program to do so.
PITTSBURGH (AP) - Aramis Ramirez homered and drove in four runs
as the Chicago Cubs won their third in a row by mauling Pittsburgh
12-3 to retain the majors' best record at 81-and-50. The Cubs
increased their lead in the NL Central to five games over idle
Milwaukee.
INDIANAPOLIS (AP) - Peyton Manning could be activated by the
Indianapolis Colts today even though the two-time MVP isn't
expected to play in the team's preseason finale Thursday night.
Manning has been on the physically-unable-to-perform list since
undergoing surgery in mid-July to have an infected bursa sac
removed from his left knee, but he's expected to be ready for the
September 7th season opener.
HOUSTON (AP) - Houston Texans receiver Harry Williams probably
won't play football again after injuring his neck and spine in a
preseason game last Friday against the Dallas Cowboys. The Texans
team doctor, Walter Lowe, says Williams is expected to walk again
after surgery Sunday in Dallas to fuse and stabilize his cervical
spine but the severity of the injury makes it "highly unlikely
that Harry will return to football."
EAST RUTHERFORD, N.J. (AP) - The New York Giants are trying to
talk Michael Strahan out of his brief retirement. The Giants need
to replace injured Pro Bowl defensive end Osi Umenyiora (OH'-see
YOO'-mehn-yoor-uh), who is lost for the season after a knee injury
last Saturday night.
NEW YORK (AP) - Roger Federer takes to the court today for his
first non-Olympics tennis match since he lost his Number-1 ranking
to Spain's Rafael Nadal. Federer takes on unseeded Maximo Gonzalez
on the second day of the U.S. Open.
