High School Baseball and Softball

Second-ranked Iowa City High beat Bettendorf, 8-0, in a Class 4A substate baseball final Tuesday to advance to the state tournament at home in Iowa City.

Here are the updated 2022 Iowa high school state baseball Class 1A and 2A brackets, schedules and scores.

Dyersville Beckman topped Jesup to earn the program’s 19th state baseball tournament appearance and first since winning the Class 2A crown in 2017 in head coach Fred Martin’s last season.

The Mid-Prairie baseball team scored three times in the top of the first inning, overcame an immediate injury to its starting pitcher and beat West Marshall, 3-1, in a Class 2A substate final Tuesday night.

See photos from Mid-Prairie’s 3-1 win over West Marshall in a Class 2A Iowa high school baseball substate final.

A seven-run half inning propelled No. 8 Linn-Mar to a 9-4 Class 5A regional final win over No. 5 Ankeny Centennial — and its first state softball tournament berth in seven years.

Rylee Vercande lit the fuse with a leadoff home run in the bottom of the first inning, pitcher Peyton Driscoll spun a 13-strikeout, two-hit shutout and third-ranked Williamsburg hit the ball hard all game in a 7-0 Class 3A regional softball final rout of Atlantic.

North Linn’s baseball team qualified for the state tournament for the sixth time in eight years via a 13-3, six-inning win over Lynnville-Sully in a Class 1A substate final Tuesday night.