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Iowa high school state baseball 2024: Monday’s roundup with scores, stats and more
The 2024 Iowa high school state baseball tournament begins Monday with the Class 3A quarterfinals at Veterans Memorial Stadium in Cedar Rapids and the Class 1A quarterfinals at Merchants Park in Carroll. Find updated schedules, scores, brackets and live stream information here throughout the day.
Iowa high school state baseball coverage
» 3A quarterfinals: Chase Fjelland’s game-winner lifts North Polk over Harlan
» 3A quarterfinals: Marion dominates Center Point-Urbana after a rain delay
» 3A quarterfinals: Jaron Bleeker excels on the mound, at the plate in Sioux City Heelan’s 3-1 win over Pella
» 1A quarterfinals: Sigourney falls to Lynnville-Sully in its first state baseball tournament appearance
» Predictions: The Gazette’s class-by-class, round-by-round picks
» Qualifiers: A closer look at all 32 teams
» Feature: Oh, Brother! Scott siblings contribute to Marion’s baseball success
» Feature: North Linn rides very youthful team and return to mound of Mason Bechen to state
» Brackets: Updated, pairings, schedules and scores for all 4 classes
Monday’s Iowa high school state baseball scores
CLASS 3A QUARTERFINALS (CEDAR RAPIDS)
No. 3 North Polk 5, Harlan 4
North Polk is either clutch or charmed.
Maybe the Comets are both.
Sophomore Chase Fjelland delivered a two-out, two-run hit, helping No. 3 North Polk conjure up its third-straight postseason comeback with a 5-4 victory over Harlan in a Class 3A state baseball quarterfinal Monday at Memorial Stadium.
“We always clawed back and won,” Fjelland said about the last three games. “So, pretty much the same this game. Just do what we’ve been doing and it worked.”
— K.J. Pilcher
» Game story | Box score
No. 2 Marion 12, Center Point-Urbana 2 (5 innings)
It rained Monday afternoon at Veterans Memorial Stadium. Not on the northeast side of town, just at Veterans Memorial Stadium it seemed.
It was a good three-plus hours before the teams could pick things back up after they had played just a single inning. It took that long for the Cedar Rapids Kernels grounds crew to do their usual phenomenal job getting the field ready after almost two inches of moisture fell.
But the delay certainly didn’t affect one of the teams. That’d be the Wolves, who dominated all of the post-rain play, scoring 11 unanswered runs for a 12-2 win in this Class 3A quarterfinal.
The game ended via mercy rule on Austin Goodrich’s two-run single in the fifth inning.
“Sometimes those rain delays will either help you or hurt you,” said Marion Coach Steve Fish. “I think it helped us today.”
— Jeff Johnson
» Game story | Photo gallery | Box score
No. 4 Sioux City Heelan 3, No. 9 Pella 1
Jaron Bleeker pitched a complete game and accounted for all three runs in Heelan’s victory.
“I went on the mound and gave a one-run game, which is what I needed to do,” Bleeker said. “I needed to keep it low-scoring.
“At the plate, I just found barrels. Found some way to score some runs and that’s what we needed to win that game.”
Pella took a 1-0 advantage in the first. Samuel Carlson singled to lead off the game, scoring when Nathan Carey reached on an error.
Heelan (33-10) answered in its half of the inning. Bleeker hit a single and was replaced by courtesy runner Drew Uhl, who scored on Brady Baker’s double.
Bleeker did the driving in for the next two runs. He smacked an RBI single in the second for a 2-1 lead. Bleeker’s RBI single in the sixth added an insurance run.
“It gets to me and my job is to drive in the runs,” said Bleeker, who finished 3-for-4. “I do what I have to do.”
— K.J. Pilcher
» Game story | Photo gallery | Box score
Rescheduled: The Class 3A quarterfinal game between No. 1 Dubuque Wahlert and DeWitt Central was postponed to 9 a.m. Tuesday following a rain delay earlier Monday.
CLASS 1A QUARTERFINALS (CARROLL)
No. 1 Akron-Westfield 3, Bedford 2 (9 innings)
No. 5 Lynnville-Sully 2, No. 8 Sigourney 0
Sigourney fell to Lynnville-Sully, 2-0, in a Class 1A state baseball quarterfinal game Monday at Merchants Park.
The fifth-ranked Hawks struck early after to back-to-back walks from junior pitcher Caden Clarahan and Lannon Montgomery’s RBI single in the first inning.
That was the only hit Clarahan gave up before the sixth inning.
Montgomery added another RBI single in the sixth inning to push the lead to 2-0.
— Sean Strohmayer, The News-Review
» Game story | Box score
No. 3 Mason City Newman 3, South Winneshiek 1
South Winneshiek managed six hits and five walks, but Newman’s Malachi O'Brien struck out nine and allowed just one run in a complete game as the third-ranked Knights advanced to the Class 1A semifinals.
Pinch runner Carver Wenthold accounted for the Warriors’ only run by stealing home in the fourth, cutting the lead to 2-1.
Two of Newman’s runs were unearned.
No. 4 Remsen St. Mary’s 10, North Linn 6
St. Mary’s scored six runs in the bottom of the first after a two-run top half for North Linn and didn’t look back.
The Lynx rallied with a three-run seventh but the comeback came up short.
Hunter Pick was 2-for-3 with a two-run homer for the Hawks. Braxton Kneip went 3-for-3 with a pair of RBIs.
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