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.
Here’s your latest update on how professional baseball players in the affiliated minor leagues and major leagues are doing. Stats are through Thursday.
Today’s youth are joining club and/or travel teams at earlier ages. Kids are playing more than one sport in a season, or at least in a year. Many are overscheduled. Consequently, there has been a drop in enrollment in rec sports.
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.
Class 5A 11th-ranked Iowa City Liberty swept Cedar Rapids Jefferson in an Iowa high school softball doubleheader Thursday night in North Liberty.
Doug Wagemester has been at Kirkwood Community College for 26 years, including 15 as head men’s basketball coach. He has gotten an opportunity to be part of a major-college program at Mississippi State, which is why he is stepping down as Kirkwood’s athletics director.
The Iowa Girls High School Athletic Union released high school softball postseason pairings Wednesday afternoon.
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