East Buchanan beat Clinton Prince of Peace 2-1 in eight innings in a Class 1A Iowa high school baseball substate tournament first-round game Saturday at East Buchanan High School in Winthrop.
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East Buchanan beat Clinton Prince of Peace 2-1 in eight innings in a Class 1A Iowa high school baseball substate tournament first-round game Saturday at East Buchanan High School in Winthrop.
Brady Van Scoyoc’s passion has produced solid season for East Buchanan, which hosted Clinton Prince of Peace in the first round of the Class 1A District 10 play Saturday. He pitched 5 1/3 innings, allowing just one run and earning a no-decision in the Buccaneers’ 2-1 victory in eight innings.
North Linn baseball coach Travis Griffith will attempt to perform a balancing act in the postseason. He will have to find the middle ground between realistic expectations and the program’s lofty aspirations.
Class 3A No. 2-ranked Marion beat North Scott 7-0 in an Iowa high school baseball game Wednesday at Marion High School.
Sigourney has enjoyed a strong baseball season, placing second in the South Iowa Cedar League, moving to No. 8 in the Iowa High School Baseball Coaches Association Class 1A rankings and earning the No. 1 seed in District 12.
Prep softball: Western Dubuque remains at No. 1 in this week’s Super Ten, with Benton Community and Cedar Rapids Xavier climbing to 2 and 3.
Marion’s Grayson Kirsch was expected to be near the top of the pitching rotation this season. A knee injury prevented that from happening but he did make a return to the mound, getting a win in the Wolves’ doubleheader sweep of Williamsburg.
Prep softball: Inspired Benton Community blanks North Linn on Cancer Awareness Night; more than $1,700 is raised for the family of Benton student Tatum Schroeder.
The weekly Iowa High School Baseball Coaches Association statewide rankings has contained a large contingent of Mississippi Valley Conference teams. As the regular season winds, the MVC maintains a strong presence in the poll.
The postseason begins at the end of this week for Class 1A and 2A schools. The bigger schools still have conference and some playoff primers on the slate. Dubuque Wahlert at Cedar Rapids Kennedy and Marion at Central DeWitt are among the highlighted Iowa high school baseball games in Week 8.
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Class 3A ninth-ranked Solon received quality starts from Tyler Bell and Vince Steinbrech, sweeping Clear Creek Amana, 10-2 and 9-3, in a Wamac Conference baseball doubleheader Thursday night in Tiffin.
Prep softball: With a Thursday sweep of Cedar Rapids Jefferson, Iowa City Liberty pushes the MVC Mississippi Division race to the limit. Lightning and Cedar Rapids Xavier finish a game behind Dubuque Wahlert.
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