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Wildcat baseball prepare for Chargers
With post season dreams on the line this weekend, the West Central Valley Wildcats prepare for their finals regular season match up as they host the ACGC Chargers tomorrow. The Chargers go into tomorrow’s match up with at 1-22 so far this season, and have tasted defeated against the Wildcats already this season. West Central Valley claimed victory against ACGC in June as the Wildcats would double the Chargers runs in a 10-5 victory. Zach Teague would take the mound and notch in four strike outs against ACGC while center fielder Landon Osberg would notch in two fellow Wildcats in to score. Colten Kern would have a fantastic outing in the box, going 4-3 with three singles while coming in to score each time for the Wildcats.
Softball Recap: Pella turns things around after road loss
There's no place like home for Pella, who bounced back after a loss on the road last Thursday. They came out on top against the Perry Bluejays on Monday by a score of 10-0 (the very same score they lost by in their prior game). The high-scoring effort was just what Pella needed considering they were shutout in their previous game.
Perry Finds Out Postseason Draw for Baseball and Softball
Playoff assignments have been released for summer sports. Perry will be on the road for all of their contest when postseason play begins. The Bluejays and Jayettes both earned the worse possible seed in their brackets. Softball will have to travel to Denison-Schleswig for a quarterfinal game on Thursday, July...
Bluejays Have Up Hill Battle in Regionals
Postseason assignments have been released by the IHSAA. Perry will be making a trip to Grinnel in the first round on Friday, July 12. The Bluejays were given the 8 seed, the worse possible, in the 3A Substate 7 pool. Perry struggled to an 8-14 record at the time of the seeds being released while Grinnel played at a 20-9 clip. That was good enough for the one seed.
ADM Baseball Starts Postseason on July 12th
The Adel-DeSoto-Minburn Baseball team recently found out their postseason seeding in Class 3A. The Tigers are sitting at 12-14 overall (7-8 inside the Raccoon River Conference) but has played much better than their record indicates. ADM will travel to Ballard to see a familiar foe in the Bombers on July 12th at 7pm. Ballard has averaged about seven runs a game, while ADM are at four runs. The Tigers beat the Bombers in Adel 4-0 on June 20th behind tremendous pitching from Senior Grant Rychnovsky.
ADM Softball Defeats Gilbert on Senior Night for 9th Consecutive
The Adel-DeSoto-Minburn Softball team beat Gilbert 9-5 on Monday night to win their ninth straight to celebrate Senior night. The Tigers began by honoring five seniors on the team: Kaylee Smith, Cameran Smith, Aubrey Winter, Aleah Johnson, and Olivia Wyant. ADM led 1-0 after the first following a solo home run from Lauren Hagedorn. The Tigers used a big second inning to bring in seven runs to make it 8-0, then tallied one more in the fifth. Gilbert battled back by scoring three in the fourth and two in the fifth innings, as ADM went onto win 9-5. Senior Aleah Johnson reflected on her high school career.
Jayettes in Pella, Bluejays Host Creston
The conference portion of the Perry Baseball and Softball schedules have been completed. Both teams now have a handful of games left before Regional action begins the second week of July. The Jayettes will travel to Pella while the Bluejays host Creston. Pella comes in with 17 wins and Perry...
Josh Vannornam named Bluejay football head coach
The Perry Bluejays football program has hired Josh Vannornam as the new head coach. The Nebraska native is already well known to PHS athletes because he has been the strength and conditioning coach for the last year in his role with ETS Performance, which has a contract with the Perry Community School District.
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