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Iowa high school state softball 2024: Wednesday’s roundup with scores, stats and more
The 2024 Iowa high school state softball tournament semifinal round was Wednesday at Rogers Sports Complex in Fort Dodge. Find all the scores, stats and complete area coverage below.
Iowa high school state softball coverage
» 3A semifinals: Kalon Spratt’s blast, Ava Hocker’s speed send Williamsburg back to the championship game
» 3A semifinals: Assumption ends No. 1 Benton’s run with a 7-run outburst in the 5th inning
» 1A semifinals: Sigourney blisters Southeast Warren to advance to the title game
» Brackets: Updated pairings, schedules and scores for all 5 classes
Wednesday’s Iowa high school state softball scores
CLASS 5A SEMIFINALS
No. 1 West Des Moines Valley 8, No. 9 Ankeny 1
No. 2 Pleasant Valley 4, No. 11 Urbandale 2
CLASS 4A SEMIFINALS
No. 8 Carlisle 6, No. 7 North Scott 2
No. 5 Adel ADM 7, No. 1 North Polk 2
CLASS 3A SEMIFINALS
No. 2 Williamsburg 3, No. 3 Dubuque Wahlert 2
Late in a tie game — the biggest game of the season (so far) — Ava Hocker stole second base. Then Williamsburg’s courtesy runner extraordinaire stole third.
Then came the comebacker to the pitching circle.
“It was a risky move,” Hocker said after a bad throw to the plate enabled her to score the go-ahead run in the sixth inning.
“I don’t regret it. It worked out for us. I just hoped for the best, and that’s what happened.”
Defense was the difference in this one; Williamsburg (32-12) had no errors, Wahlert (30-11) committed four.
Thus, the Raiders are a win away from a championship repeat.
For the second straight game, the Raiders erased an early deficit.
“It’s a seven-inning game,” Finn said. “Until you get to the end of the seventh, with this team, I’m not going to be worried.”
Down 1-0 after an inning, the Raiders scored single tallies in the fourth, fifth and sixth, including Kalon Spratt’s solo homer that put Williamsburg up 2-1.
— Jeff Linder
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No. 5 Davenport Assumption 10, No. 1 Benton Community 7
For the span of about 10 glorious minutes, Benton (32-8) had a glimpse of the finals. Jessa DeMoss smoked a two-run home run in the bottom of the fourth inning for a 2-0 lead.
But the good vibes clouded over quickly.
Assumption brought 12 batters to the plate in the top of the fifth, and the Knights recorded those seven runs on five hits and three errors.
“There are a lot of plays we wish we had back,” Benton Coach Jordon Rettenmeier said. “Assumption’s a good team. They like small ball, and they executed better today than we did.”
— Jeff Linder
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CLASS 2A SEMIFINALS
No. 1 Van Meter 4, No. 6 East Marshall 3 (8 innings)
Mady Schnell hit a walk-off solo homer to send the Bulldogs (42-1) to the title game.
No. 5 Audubon 3, No. 13 Eddyville EBF 2
Down 2-1, Michelle Brooks doubled just inside the right-field line to score two and give the Wheelers (29-4) a walk-off win.
CLASS 1A SEMIFINALS
No. 1 Martensdale-St. Marys 2, No. 4 Fort Dodge St. Edmond 1
No. 6 Sigourney 6, No. 7 Southeast Warren 1
If you thought the Sigourney High School softball program was a one-trick pony, Wednesday was indisputable evidence to the contrary.
Josephine Moore broke the game open with a two-run home run, Erin Dawson added a two-run double and sixth-ranked Sigourney played errorless defense behind Carly Goodwin.
“This is awesome,” said Goodwin, who fashioned a two-hitter, striking out eight and walking an uncustomary three. “We’ve never gotten this far.”
Southeast Warren (24-3) had more success than most in making contact — some of it hard contact — against Goodwin (23-2). With just eight Ks, that meant the Savages needed to make 13 plays in the field.
They made them all, without a hitch.
Sigourney led 1-0 after four innings, then Goodwin doubled to lead off the bottom of the fifth.
Moore followed with her 11th home run of the season, on a 1-1 count.
— Jeff Linder
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