The fall sports season in Jasper County is nearing an end this weekend with the State Swim Meet in Marshalltown. Looking back, a lot has happened this season : PCM qualified for the substate round of the playoffs as Hutch Burns runs in front of a Dustin Moore block; NCMP junior Stephanie Griffith qualified for state in all three relays this past weekend and will try to help the Aquagirls get on the medal stand; Newton junior Miranda Huebner will provide the Cardinals with experience next year as all but one runner returns to the cross country team. Huebner ran in the regional meet and finished fourth on the team; Colfax-Mingo senior Ashley Stuva hits the homestretch during the Class 2A Regional Meet last week in Greenfield; Newton senior Ca

IOWA CITY (MCT) — During interviews, Ricky Stanzi kind of keeps his head down and stares straight ahead.

PHILADELPHIA (MCT) — Maybe this is just a one-night mirage, a short delay before the inevitable Yankees championship.

The Cedar Valley Fighting Association returns with another edition of “Friday Night Fights” on Friday, Nov. 13, at 8 p.m. at the VFW in Newton.

NCMP sophomores Ellen Colville (above) and Courtney Meyer will both be represented at the state swim meet this weekend. Colville will compete in the 500 freestyle and 200 Individual Medley, while both swimmers will compete in two relays.

BROOKLYN — Not even a monster effort by senior Abby Maher could propel the Collins-Maxwell-Baxter volleyball team to victory Friday.

BROOKLYN — Not even a monster effort by senior Abby Maher could propel the Collins-Maxwell-Baxter volleyball team to victory Friday.

IOWA CITY — Ricky Stanzi will forever be remembered in Hawkeye lore after his last-second touchdown pass to Marvin McNutt to beat Michigan State last weekend.

PHILADELPHIA (MCT) — Five appearances. Four innings pitched. One hit. No runs. That had been the postseason enjoyed by Brad Lidge before Sunday night.

COLLEGE STATION, Texas — The Iowa State Cyclones are one win away from becoming bowl eligible.

Registration for the Newton Wrestling Club will take place Tuesday and Thursday from 6 to 8 p.m.

JOHNSTON — Despite several ill swimmers over the last couple of weeks, the Newton-Colfax-Mingo-Pella swim team managed to turn in some personal- and season-best times Saturday at the regional meet at Summit Middle School in Johnston.

The Newton Cardinal football banquet will be Tuesday, Nov. 17, in the Community Heights Alliance Church beginning at 6 p.m.

FORT DODGE — It wasn’t the ending to a high school career that Newton senior Colten McDermott expected.

NEW YORK (MCT) — It took one swing of the bat to wake them up, to raise the decibel level in this $1.3-billion palace to a height surpassing any it had reached in the previous 24 hours.

KANSAS CITY, Mo. (MCT) — Texas and Iowa don’t have to play for the national championship to compete against each other.

FORT DODGE — Lynnville-Sully cross country coach Darin Arkema easily remembers the last time the Hawks had both a boy and girl reach the State Cross Country Meet — he was still a senior in high school.

The next project for Robyn Friedman is organizing Newton’s first-ever Jingle Bell Run.

The average reader would have thought Lambs Grove native Robyn Friedman had done it all as a marathon runner.

NEW YORK (MCT) — In Game 1 of the 105th World Series, CC Sabathia limited Philadelphia to two runs — on solo homers by Chase Utley — and just four hits in seven innings. But Lee, traded by Cleveland to Philadelphia in July, was even better.

JEFFERSON — It seemed like when Carroll Kuemper needed a big play offensively Wednesday night against PCM, the Knights got it.

BAXTER — Collins-Maxwell-Baxter couldn’t run. Missouri Valley couldn’t pass.

IOWA CITY (U of I) — Iowa’s seventh-ranked football team will face Indiana before an expected sellout crowd of more than 70,000 Saturday in Kinnick Stadium.

IOWA CITY (U of I) — The Davey O’Brien National Quarterback Award announced earlier this week its 2009 O’Brien semifinalists and Iowa’s Ricky Stanzi is on the list.

ALLEMAN — Coming into this volleyball season, CMB coach Jon Richards knew he would have a quality team leader in senior Abby Maher.

On Thursday, the Iowa High School Athletic Association announced boys basketball postseason assignments.

GREENFIELD — The Collins-Maxwell-Baxter cross country season ended short of the state meet Monday after no one qualified in the top 10 of the district meet at Greenfield Golf and Country Club.

AMES (MCT) — Glance at the Big 12 North standings. They look a little surreal, don’t they?

IOWA CITY (MCT) — The Iowa football team drained their physical and emotional gas tanks at Michigan State.