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Boone Little League All Stars advance
Following an opening round bye, the Boone Little league All Stars opened play Sunday representing the State of Iowa in the 2024 Little League Central Region Intermediate Baseball Tournament. Boone took advantage of an 8 run first inning and a timely RBI triple by Duke Darby late in the game to defeat Ohio 13-9. Darby connected on a pair of RBI triples to lead a balanced Boone offence.
Iowa high school softball state tournament 2024: See IGHSAU brackets for all five classes
The Iowa high school softball season is winding down, which means the IGHSAU softball state tournament is set to begin. Play for all five classes will run from July 22-26 in Fort Dodge. Listed below are the dates and matchups for each class:. Class 5A. 10 a.m. CT — No....
Boone Little League drops to Indiana
Boone Little League’s Intermediate All Stars faced Indiana in a Central Region Tournament match up Tuesday in Ankeny. Boone got on the scoreboard first in the second inning as Ryder Hilsabeck scored on a Colton Ross Sacrifice fly. Noah Gorman would retire the first 6 Indiana batters in order and Boone took a 1-0 lead into the 3rd.
Falcons Fall In Sub-state Final
Chariton scored seven runs in the final two innings and beat OA-BCIG 10-1 in a class 2A sub-state final played Tuesday night at Boone. The Falcons out-hit the Chargers 7-6 with three of those hits coming in the 4th inning in which they scored their only run. Jaxx DeJean, Brysen Kolar, and Kade Spotts each had two hits.
Chargers Sports Seasons Finished for Now
The AC/GC Chargers are on hiatus for now, with both summer ball seasons earlier this month. The baseball team finished 2-23 on the season, with the softball team finishing 13-13. For now, there are no games for the Chargers until the fall seasons begin, but team get togethers, practices, open gyms and weight lifting are taking place. Games for football season begin August 30th, with the session opener in Ogden, with volleyballs season to begin August 22nd with a tournament at Des Moines Christian. Boys and girls cross country starts August 29th at Gowrie Municipal Golf Course.
Sergeant Bluff-Luton softball bringing powerful offense into regional final with Fort Dodge
(Sergeant Bluff) -- Sergeant Bluff-Luton softball has leaned on one of the state's top hitters and an efficient offense to get on the doorstep of the Class 4A State Softball Tournament. The only thing standing in their way is a perennial power as the Warriors prep to face Fort Dodge...
Lynx can’t get past Algona
ALGONA — The Webster City baseball team couldn’t hold off Algona in a Class 3A first round game on Friday. The Lynx (17-14 overall) built a 5-3 lead over the Bulldogs (26-7), but Algona scored seven runs in the fifth and sixth to earn a 10-5 victory, their third this season over Webster City.
Softball Roundup: Liberty High Falls to Muscatine in Regional Final
For the third year in a row Liberty High came up one win shy of a spot at the state tournament. And for the third consecutive season it was Muscatine that denied the Lightning at trip to Fort Dodge. Third-ranked Muscatine scored four runs in the first inning on its...
Pitching and Defense Lead Algona Baseball Past Boone
The Algona baseball team checked another box in their quest to qualify for the state tournament for the first time since 2014, defeating Boone 2-1 last night at Bulldog Park in the class 3A – substate 2 second round. Algona starting pitcher Tate Slagle bent but didn’t break, which...
Bulldog Softball ends season at No. 6 Fort Dodge
The Le Mars Community softball team finished their season on Saturday at the hands of No. 6 Fort Dodge by a score of 11-1 in five innings. The Bulldog bats went silent most of the night recording just three hits off of Fort Dodge pitcher Lucy Porter. Le Mars head coach Brooke Berkenpas says she was in command of her pitches, and that kept the Bulldogs from getting anything going.
Treynor's postseason run comes up short in regional final
(Van Meter) – Treynor’s quest for their first State Tournament since 2019 ran into a buzzsaw in a regional final Monday night. The Cardinals (16-12) scrapped but came up a little short in a 6-2 loss to No. 1 Van Meter (40-1), who returns to Fort Dodge for a third-straight season.
Remsen St. Mary’s Softball heads back to Fort Dodge for fourth-straight year
The No. 3 Remsen St. Mary’s softball team added to their state tournament banner collection with a 2-0 win over No. 8 Newell-Fonda on Monday night in Remsen. It is the fourth year in a row the Hawks have qualified for state and seventh time in program history. The...
Falcon Baseball to face Roland-Story with state appearance on the line
The Aplington-Parkersburg baseball team will look to punch its ticket to its first ever state tournament appearance in Tuesday’s substate final against Roland-Story. The game will be held at Marshalltown and will air on 99 The Wave. Head Coach Brett Kleespies says the Norsemen have several underclassman contributors, but...
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