Yesterday in local high school sports:
The Central DeWitt girls tennis team fell to Clinton 7-2
The Maquoketa girls tennis team lost to Mount Vernon 9-0
The Central DeWitt boys golf team placed 3rd out of 10 teams in the Bobcat Boys Golf Invite at Thunder Hills Country Club in Peosta, with a team score of 308.
Today in local high school sports:
The Central DeWitt volleyball team hosts Muscatine
The Bellevue volleyball team travels to Preston to take on Easton Valley
The Northeast volleyball team hosts Fulton (a team out of Illinois)
The Maquoketa girls tennis team hosts Marion
And the Maquoketa cross country team will compete in a Quad at Jones County Central Park with Central DeWitt, Cascade, and Dubuque Wahlert.
In St. Louis Cardinals action: the birds snuck by the Pittsburgh Pirates 7-6 last night in Game 1 of a 4-game home series. Alec Burleson, who went 4-5 on the night, hit a walk-off solo home run to dead center field with two outs in the 9th inning to lift the Cards over the Bucs. Tune in for Game 2 of the series tonight, pregame coverage begins at 5:50 on KMAQ.
Today is NFL Roster Cutdown Day as NFL teams are cutting down their 90-man rosters to 53 players before the regular season starts, with the deadline at 3 pm.
In notable NFL news: The Cleveland Browns traded backup quarterback Kenny Pickett to the Las Vegas Raiders for a fifth round draft pick. This comes after regular backup Aidan O’Connell suffered a fractured wrist. The Raiders also bring back wideout Amari Cooper on a 1 year deal, after selecting him with the number 4 overall pick back in 2015. He returns after 7 seasons with Dallas, Cleveland, and most recently Buffalo.
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