State News

Iowa Conference bids for NCAA baseball

The Iowa Conference has submitted a bid to host the NCAA Division III national baseball tournament at Veterans Memorial Stadium in Cedar Rapids in 2015, 2016 and 2017.

The D3 World Series would be held during the Memorial Day Weekend each year (Friday through Tuesday) and would involve eight teams from around the country.

The tournament has been held in Appleton, Wis., for the last 14 years. Chuck Yrigoyen, the Iowa Conference commissioner, thinks Appleton plans to submit a bid to keep the tournament and he expects many other cities to bid as well.

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Jenks suffers spill at World Triathlon

LONDON - Linn-Mar sophomore Stephanie Jenks will return from England next week with some bumps and bruises.

Jenks fell in slippery conditions during the biking portion of the Junior World Triathlon Championships in London Thursday morning and finished 47th in the Junior Elite Women's division.

"Definitely not the race I wanted," Jenks said in an e-mail from London. "I had an awesome start for the swim. I was able to come out of the swim better than I had all season and found myself in the top three of the first chase pack on the bike.

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Girls Union strikes deal with IPTV

WEST DES MOINES - High-definition TV programming and free online streaming will now be a thing of the present for fans of Iowa girls high school championships.

The Iowa Girls High School Athletic Union approved a new three-year contract with Iowa Public Television at a monthly board meeting Tuesday at the union headquarters in West Des Moines.

For the first time, all Iowans will have access to HD programming of basketball, soccer, softball and volleyball championship games. The pact goes into effect Nov. 16, following the state volleyball tournament, and replaces a contract with the Iowa High School Sports Network (IHSSN).

The 2014 girls' state basketball championship will be the first event televised by IPTV under the new contract.

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Lombardi hearing delayed to December

The state disciplinary hearing for former Cedar Rapids Washington teacher and football coach Tony Lombardi has been delayed to December, the Iowa Board of Educational Examiners announced Tuesday.

Lombardi has been charged with four counts of unethical behavior by the BoEE during his years at Washington. Lombardi has resigned all his positions at Washington and is currently living in West Des Moines with his family. He is no longer a teacher or coach at an Iowa school.

The hearing had been scheduled for Sept. 23 and 24 in Des Moines before Administrative Law Judge John Priester. The attorney for the state requested a continuance of the hearing date and Lombardi's attorney did not object.

The hearing is now scheduled to begin on Tuesday, Dec. 3 at 9 a.m. at the Wallace State Officie Building in Des Moines. The hearing will continue Dec. 4 and 5, if required.