Here are five Gazette area 5A, 4A and 3A Iowa high school softball regional-quarterfinal games to watch Thursday.
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Here are five Gazette area 5A, 4A and 3A Iowa high school softball regional-quarterfinal games to watch Thursday.
Cedar Rapids Kennedy closed the regular season as the No. 1 team in the final Class 4A poll by the Iowa High School Baseball Coaches Association poll released Monday. Here is a look at the 3A and 4A rankings going into the postseason.
This week transitions from the end of the regular season for Class 3A and 4A to the postseason for all four classes. Class 1A and 2A will continue district play Tuesday and Saturday. Some intriguing matchups close the regular season with 3A and 4A substates beginning Friday.
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.
When her late-afternoon fly ball to right field was lost in the sun, Linn-Mar’s Karsyn Michael was off and running. Her 240-foot race around the bases resulted in an inside-the-park home run, which proved pivotal in the Lions’ 2-1 Mississippi Valley Conference softball win over Cedar Rapids Prairie in the first game of a doubleheader Wednesday.
The pairings and paths for high school baseball teams have been set by the Iowa High School Athletic Association. Small classes open postseason next week.
Host Linn-Mar and Cedar Rapids Prairie split an Iowa high school softball doubleheader Wednesday night in Marion. The Lions won the opener, 2-1, and the Hawks won the nightcap, 4-2.
North Linn baseball coach Travis Griffith said this is the youngest Lynx team he has coached. After a two-week hiatus, North Linn returned to the top 10 of the Class 1A rankings released Sunday night by the Iowa High School Baseball Coaches Association.
Johnston beat Linn-Mar 7-2 in a Linn-Mar/Alburnett softball tournament consolation game Saturday at Oak Ridge Middle School in Marion.
Catching up with six WNBA players with Iowa ties, through games played Thursday.
Prep softball notes: A squad full of second-, third and fourth-year varsity players, Washington is 20-4 and ranked No. 7 in Class 3A.
Mason Waterbury pitched six strong innings in an 8-5 Iowa City Liberty win, raising his record to 7-0. Another southpaw took center stage in the nightcap. Linn-Mar senior Caleb Mossman threw five innings as the Lions secured a split with a 10-3 victory.
Marion supplanted Western Dubuque atop the latest Iowa High School Baseball Coaches Association Class 3A rankings. The Wolves opened this week 21-1 and moved up two spots from last week’s poll.
The Dyersville Beckman boys basketball team has had more than its first share of injuries and illness this season. The illness belonged to head coach Michael Molony this time, though he toughed out the flu and led his Blazers past Alburnett in a Class 2A district semifinal, 59-33.
Cedar Rapids Prairie’s Louden Bloxham suffered a leg injury that kept him off the mat up to a month of the state tournament. He turned the hurt into hardware with a win in the 190-pound quarterfinal of the Class 3A state wrestling tournament Thursday at Casey’s Center ini Des Moines.
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