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NEWTON, Iowa -- Erik Jones has made winning look easy in his rookie season in the NASCAR Xfinity Series.Ty Dillon found out yet again how hard victories are to come by.Jones retook the lead from Dillon with 16 laps to go and won Saturday night at Iowa Speedway for his third victory of the season.Jones led a race-high 154 of 250 laps, but it took a late inside move for Jones to overcome Dillon for his first win since at Dover in May.I was really working as hard as I could to get around Ty. Man, it was tough, said Jones, who was 27th in the June race at Iowa. I feel like we deserved to win when he came here earlier this year. We really had a fast car. Its nice to get some redemption.Brad Keselowski was the only Sprint Cup driver in the field, leaving Iowa wide-open for an Xfinity regular to snatch a victory. But Jones remains the only series driver with more than one of those in 2016.Dillon, seeking his first victory since Indianapolis in 2014, finished second. Hes winless in 66 races.I wanted to win so bad and that was all we had, Dillon said. Man, my heart has been broken every race since Indy. I want to get in Victory Lane again. Were close. Its just that we need to get a little bit better.Elliott Sadler was third, followed by Brennan Poole and Dakoda Armstrong.Keselowski, who will start seventh Sunday in Pocono in Pennsylvania in the Cup race, was eighth.Daniel Suarez, the series leader entering the race, failed to finish because of damage to the No. 19 car.Jones came to Iowa with the comfort of knowing that hes already locked into the inaugural Xfinity Chase later this season.It was clear from the opening lap that the No. 20 car would be one the field would be chasing.Suarez won his second pole of the season earlier Saturday. But Jones grabbed the lead before the end of the first turn and dominated the first half of the race.Three cautions within the space of 10 laps threatened to shake thing up, but Jones quickly jumped back ahead.Jones couldnt win all the restarts though, as Dillon caught him with a quick pit stop about 100 laps before the finish. Dillon continued to pad his lead as the laps progressed, but the stress Dillon put on his car proved to be overwhelming.I did all I could I to keep him behind me, and it just wore my stuff out a little more than I needed to, Dillon said.Jones margin of victory was nearly four seconds -- and the rest of the field finished at least 10 seconds behind him.The air game was tough. I needed to get clean air for a long time, Jones said. My crew made a great car, one that definitely deserved to win the race. Yeezy 350 Outlet . Cote was eligible to become a free agent Feb. 15. 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The Longhorns (14-4, 3-2) got their biggest win of the season with their third in the row in the Big 12. SAN FRANCISCO -- St. Louis Cardinals right-hander Mike Leake will duel the guy the San Francisco Giants chose to replace him during the winter when he opposes Jeff Samardzija on Saturday night in a key matchup in the National League wild-card race.Leake was acquired by the Giants from the Cincinnati Reds at the trade deadline.San Francisco paid a hefty price -- outfielder Adam Duvall has turned into a 30-homer player -- but the defending champs were trailing the Los Angeles Dodgers atop the NL West at the time and thought they needed to do something.It didnt work. Leake went just 2-5 with a 4.07 ERA in nine starts and the Giants, who trailed LA by a half-game on the day of the trade, wound up eight back.Leake, a free agent at seasons end, wasnt invited back. He went to the Cardinals on a five-year, $80 million deal.The Giants then turned around and invested $10 million more in Samardzija on a five-year agreement.Neither high-priced acquisition has impressed, and thats one reason both teams find themselves battling for wild-card playoff spots rather than division titles.Samardzija has gone 11-10 with a 4.07 ERA in 29 starts for the Giants (79-68), who trail the Dodgers (83-64) by four game atop the West with 15 to play.Perhaps more important, the Giants have used two series-opening wins to open a three-game lead over the Cardinals (76-71) in the NL wild-card race.Leake, meanwhile, is 9-10 with a 4.60 ERA in 27 starts for the Cardinals, who have fallen two games behind the New York Mets (78-69) in the race for the second wild-card spot.We just have to play bettter, thats all there is to it, Cardinals manager Mike Matheny said.dddddddddddd The standings are the standings, and we know what they are. You cant run from them. The standings say were right there, so just keep playing the game.The pitching head-to-head is critical to each pitcher because both seem to be getting worse as the games get more important.Samardzija is just 3-6 with a 5.09 ERA in his last 15 starts, with the Giants losing 10 of the 15 games.Leake has gone 2/3 with a 6.15 ERA in his last eight outings, with the Cardinals losing five of the eight.If Leake is out for revenge, he should be comforted in the surroundings. Hes 6-1 with a 3.07 ERA in nine outings (eight starts) at AT&T Park in San Francisco and 5-2 overall against the Giants with a 5.02 ERA in nine games (eight starts).He has not faced the Giants this season.Leake must hope for better support than Fridays Cardinals starter, Luke Weaver, who was pulled before the end of a six-run third inning during which a key error by catcher Yadier Molina made all the runs unearned.Thats what you want to do, Giants first baseman Brandon Belt said after the win, take advantage of mistakes.Samardzija pitched June 4 at St. Louis and was the losing pitcher in a 7-4 defeat. Four Cardinals -- Brandon Moss, Aledmys Diaz, Stephen Piscotty and Matt Adams -- homered off him in his five innings.The ex-Cub is 4-4 with a 4.61 ERA in 20 career games (nine starts) against the Cardinals. ' ' '