MONDAY RESULTS – July 16
(high school softball)
STATE TOURNAMENT AT HARLAN ROGERS PARK IN FORT DODGE
FORT DODGE — Seniors Danika Smith and Courtney Waterbury combined to drive in seven runs on five hits to lead No. 3 Akron-Westfield to a 12-2, six-inning victory over New London Monday afternoon at the 1A State Softball Tournament in Fort Dodge. Smith finished with four RBI’s and three hits while Waterbury drove in three runs on two hits. The Westerners brought an end to the game in the bottom of the sixth on Lily Kenny’s bases-loaded triple that capped a five-run inning. The Westerners play No. 4 AGWSR, Ackley in the semifinals Wednesday at 1 o’clock on KLEM. A-W improves to 27-and-4 and have won their last nine games.
CLASS 1A QUARTERFINALS
#2-Collins-Maxwell 5, Newell-Fonda 0
#9-Lisbon 3, Martensdale-St. Marys 2
#3-Akron-Westfield 12, New London 2, six innings
#4-AGWSR 4, Janesville 3
CLASS 2A QUARTERFINALS
#3-Louisa-Muscatine 3, Wilton 2
#6-Central Springs 4, #8-Logan-Magnolia 0
#4-Des Moines Christian 3, #15-Earlham 2
#10-Iowa City Regina 7, #5-Alta-Aurelia 2
CLASS 3A QUARTERFINALS
#1-Davenport Assumption 14, Benton Community 4
#4-Humboldt 3, #7-Atlantic 0
(high school baseball)
CLASS 1A DISTRICT FINALS
(district 1 / sub-state 1)
Gehlen Catholic 5, Akron-Westfield 0
AKRON — Cole Linden turned in five innings of two-hit shutout relief and keyed a four-run second inning with a two-run single to lead Gehlen Catholic to a 5-0 upset of Akron-Westfield in the 1A District finals at Akron Monday night. The Jays turned to Linden after Colin Budden and Lucas McCarty got the Jays through the first two innings. Budden retired the first five batters of the game and exited with a 4-0 lead to save pitches for the 1A Sub-State game against No. 4 Remsen St. Mary’s on Tuesday night in Le Mars. Gehlen took advantage of three errors, two walks and three hits to score four runs in the second inning and added an insurance run an inning later on yet another error. The Westerners finished with four errors on the night and just two hits on offense, both by Reagan Frankl, as their season ended at 20-and-6. Gehlen has now won five straight to improve to 12-and-15. The Jays have gone 11-and-6 since starting 1-and-9 under new coach Greer Milledge.
CLASS 3A DISTRICT FINALS
(district 1 / sub-state 1)
#6-Bishop Heelan 11, Le Mars 1, five innings
LE MARS — Sophomore Christian Velasquez threw a complete-game, two-hitter and was backed up by a 14-hit attack as No. 6 Bishop Heelan advanced to the 3A Sub-State with an 11-1, five-inning victory over the Le Mars Bulldogs Monday night in the District finals at the Bulldog Sports Complex. It took a couple of inning for the Crusaders to get the measure of the Bulldogs but finally broke through with four runs in the third, added two more in the fourth and finished off the Dogs with five in the fifth for their second ‘Ten-Run Rule’ verdict on the tournament trail. Gabe Eckstaine and Logan Lancaster had the lone hits for Le Mars while Colin Kasperbauer had three hits to pace the Heelan attack. Cael Boever clubbed a home run for the Crusaders. Bishop Heelan takes a 30-and-10 record into the Sub-State finals Wednesday in Le Mars against Sergeant Bluff-Luton at 7 pm. Le Mars closes out the season at 14-and-18.
(district 2 / sub-state 1)
Sergeant Bluff-Luton 8, Boyden-Hull/Rock Valley 0
CLASS 4A SUB-STATE SEMIFINALS
Sioux City East 3, Sioux City North 2, eight innings
(major league baseball)
WASHINGTON — Much to the delight of the hometown fans at Nationals Park in Washington, D.C., Bryce Harper, the Nationals right fielder, won the All-Star game Home-Run Derby Monday night out-homering the Cubs’ Kyle Schwarber 19-18. Harper was selected to start in this year’s All-Star Classic by the fans despite hitting just .213 in the first half of the season.
TUESDAY RESULTS – July 17
(high school baseball)
CLASS 1A SUB-STATE FINALS
(sub-state 1 at Le Mars) #4-Remsen St. Mary’s 7, Gehlen Catholic 3
LE MARS — Freshman Blaine Harpenau scattered six hits and struck out eight through five innings to improve to 9-and-0 as he pitched No. 4 Remsen St. Mary’s to a 7-3 victory over Gehlen Catholic Tuesday night in the 1A Sub-State final at the Le Mars Bulldog Sports Complex. Harpenau also helped his cause with a RBI single in the fifth inning that snapped a 2-2 tie and started a four-run uprising that put the Hawks in charge. Brett Galles laced a two-run double and Skylar Waldscmitt added his second sacrifice fly of the night to put St. Mary’s in front 6-2. Waldschmitt’s first sac-fly and Spencer Schorg’s RBI single gave the Hawks a 2-0 lead in the second. Gehlen tied it with two unearned runs in the fourth on a error and Jeff Augustine’s two-out single. A wild pitch in the sixth gave the Hawks a 7-2 advantage before the Jays tallied with one in the seventh. Colin Budden started for the second straight night for Gehlen and took the loss. Gehlen finishes at 12-and-16 while St. Mary’s takes a 12-game winning streak and 27-and-3 record to Des Moines either Friday or Saturday for their third straight State Tournament appearance and 11th overall in the school’s history.
CLASS 2A SUB-STATE FINALS
(sub-state 1 at Orange City) #10-Alta-Aurelia 5, West Sioux 2
(sub-state 2 at Algona) #7-Estherville/Lincoln Central 10, Forest City 0, six innings
(high school softball)
STATE TOURNAMENT AT HARLAN ROGERS PARK IN FORT DODGE
CLASS 3A QUARTERFINALS
#2-Albia 10, #13-Spirit Lake 0, five innings
#9-Roland-Story 6, #3-Waterloo Columbus Catholic 1
CLASS 4A QUARTERFINALS
#2-A-D-M 9, Dallas Center-Grimes 1
#10-Newton 1, #11-Cedar Rapids Xavier 0
Des Moines Hoover 7, #4-Charles City 2
#15-Sergeant Bluff-Luton 3, #5-Independence 2
CLASS 5A QUARTERFINALS
#1-Pleasant Valley 4, Iowa City High 0
#5-West Des Moines Valley 2, #7-Johnston 1
#3-Indianola 4, #10-Dubuque Hempstead 1
#4-Cedar Rapids Jefferson 3, #8-Fort Dodge 1, eight innings
CLASS 1A CONSOLATION GAMES
Newell-Fonda 14, Martensdale-St. Marys 10
Janesville 7, New London 0
CLASS 2A CONSOLATION GAMES
#8-Logan-Magnolia 4, Wilton 3
#15-Earlham 15, #5-Alta-Aurelia 3
CLASS 3A CONSOLATION GAMES
Benton Community 8, #7-Atlantic 1
(major league baseball)
A-L All-Stars 8, N-L All-Stars 6, 10 innings
WASHINGTON — The American League picked up its sixth straight All-Star Game victory Tuesday night by hitting five home runs in an 8-6, 10-inning decision over the National League. The A-L wasted a 5-2 lead before Alex Bregman and George Springer opened the 10th with homers. Jean Segura belted a three-run shot for the American League, which leads the all-time series 44-43-2.
WEDNESDAY RESULTS – July 18
(high school softball)
STATE TOURNAMENT AT HARLAN ROGERS PARK IN FORT DODGE
FORT DODGE — Home runs by MaKenna Kuiper and Rachal Sicard helped power No. 4 AGWSR to a 12-5 win over No. 3 Akron-Westfield Wednesday afternoon in the 1A semifinals at the Girls State Softball Tournament in Fort Dodge. Kuiper opened the game with a home run off eighth grade pitcher Megan Meinen and that 1-0 lead stood for four innings before the Cougars broke through for four runs in the fifth, two in the sixth and five more in the seventh to seal the outcome. Sicard’s three-run homer capped the scoring in the seventh. The Westerners had a glimmer of hope going into the seventh after Lily Kenny had a RBI single and Natalie Nielsen added a two-run hit to cut a 7-1 deficit to 7-4. But the five-run seventh dashed any comeback hopes of advancing to the Thursday evening championship game. Winning pitcher Taryan Barrick struck out nine but walked seven while being reached for seven hits. Barrick also had three RBI singles. Sicard finished with three hits and four RBI’s as the Cougars roughed up A-W’s two eighth grade pitchers, Natalie Nielsen and Megan Meinen, for 12 hits. Nielsen and Kiana Appley had two hits each for the Westerners. Appley also stole five bases. Akron-Westfield (27-and-5) plays No.9 Lisbon for third place at 5 pm Thursday. AGWSR meets No. 2 Collins-Maxwell for the State 1A championship at 6 pm Thursday.
CLASS 1A SEMIFINALS (diamond 1)
#2-Collins-Maxwell 1, #9-Lisbon 0
#4-AGWSR 12, #3-Akron-Westfield 5
CLASS 2A SEMIFINALS (diamond 1)
#3-Louisa-Muscatine 2, #6-Central Springs 1
#10-Iowa City Regina 1, #4-Des Moines Christian 0
CLASS 3A SEMIFINALS (diamond 2)
#1-Davenport Assumption 9, #4-Humboldt 1
#9-Roland-Story 4, #2 Albia 0
CLASS 4A SEMIFINALS (diamond 2)
#2-A-D-M 9, #10-Newton 8
Des Moines Hoover 12, #15-Sergeant Bluff-Luton 1, five innings
CLASS 5A SEMIFINALS
#1-Pleasant Valley 9, #5-West Des Moines Valley 4
#3-Indianola 6, #4-Cedar Rapids Jefferson 0
CLASS 3A CONSOLATION GAMES
#13-Spirit Lake 5, #3-Waterloo Columbus Catholic 1
CLASS 4A CONSOLATION GAMES
#11-Cedar Rapids Xavier 11, Dallas Center-Grimes 0, five innings
#5-Independence 8, #4-Charles City 4
CLASS 5A CONSOLATION GAMES
Iowa City High 3, #7-Johnston 1
#8-Fort Dodge 8, #10-Dubuque Hempstead 6
(high school baseball)
CLASS 3A SUB-STATE FINALS
(sub-state 1 at Le Mars) #6-Bishop Heelan 5, Sergeant Bluff-Luton 4
CLASS 4A SUB-STATE FINALS
(sub-state 1 at Johnston) #1-Johnston 10, Sioux City East 0, five innings
THURSDAY RESULTS – July 19
(high school softball)
STATE TOURNAMENT AT HARLAN ROGERS PARK IN FORT DODGE
FORT DODGE — No. 3 Akron-Westfield wrapped up play at the 2018 State Softball Tournament in Fort Dodge Thursday evening, losing 9-7 in the third place game to No. 9 Lisbon. After the two teams played scoreless softball for the first three innings, the Lions struck for six runs in the top of the fourth. The Westerners countered with four runs in their half of the fourth with Courtney Waterbury’s bases-loaded hit to right clearing the bases. Akron-Westfield drew to with 6-5 on Waterbury’s sacrifice fly in the fifth. Lisbon extended the gap to 9-6 with three runs in the sixth. The Westerners scored twice in the bottom of the sixth on RBI’s by Brynn Van Eldik and Danika Smith but a strike out by Waterbury with the bases-loaded ended the threat and the game as the contest was halted after six innings on the time limit. Akron-Westfield, which went 1-and-2 this week in Fort Dodge for the first time since 2003, finished the season at 27-and-6. The Westerners landed a pair of seniors on the 1A All-Tournament team — Kiana Appley and Danika Smith.
Tana (Colt) Stewart was honored before the game by being inducted into the softball Hall-of-Fame in Fort Dodge. Tana is the first Westerner player to be inducted. She was named to three all-tournament teams in her career and a three-time first-team All-Stater. In 2006, Tana compiled a .586 batting average and swiped 21 bases while striking out just twice that season. She holds several Akron-Westfield offensive school records.
CLASS 1A THIRD PLACE GAME
#9-Lisbon 9, #3-Akron-Westfield 7, game stopped after six innings on the time limit)
CLASS 1A CHAMPIONSHIP GAME
#2-Collins-Maxwell 1, #4-AGWSR 0
CLASS 2A THIRD PLACE GAME
#4-Des Moines Christian 6, #6-Central Springs 3
CLASS 2A CHAMPIONSHIP GAME
#3-Louisa-Muscatine 4, #10-Iowa City Regina 3
(major league baseball)
NATIONAL LEAGUE
Chicago Cubs 9, St. Louis 6
FRIDAY RESULTS – July 20
(high school softball)
STATE TOURNAMENT AT HARLAN ROGERS PARK IN FORT DODGE
CLASS 3A THIRD PLACE GAME
#4-Humboldt 5, #2-Albia 4
CLASS 3A CHAMPIONSHIP GAME
#1-Davenport Assumption 4, #9-Roland-Story 2
CLASS 4A THIRD PLACE GAME
#10-Newton 7, #15-Sergeant Bluff-Luton 6, eight innings
CLASS 4A CHMPIONSHIP GAME
Des Moines Hoover 8, #2-A-D-M 3
CLASS 5A THIRD PLACE GAME
#4-Cedar Rapids Jefferson 2, #5-West Des Moines Valley 0
CLASS 5A CHAMPIONSHIP GAME
#1-Pleasant Valley 3, #3-Indianola 0
(high school baseball)
STATE TOURNAMENT AT PRINCIPAL PARK IN DES MOINES
CLASS 1A QUARTERFINALS
#1-Mason City Newman 10, #9-Tri-Center 0, five innings
#6-Martensdale-St. Marys 3, #7-Council Bluffs St. Albert 2
(major league baseball)
INTERLEAGUE
N-Y Mets 7, N-Y Yankees 5
Miami 6, Tampa Bay 5
San Francisco 5, Oakland 1
AMERICAN LEAGUE
Toronto 8, Baltimore 7, 10 innings
Boston 1, Detroit 0
Cleveland 9, Texas 8, 11 innings
Kansas City 6, Minnesota 5
Houston 3, L-A Angels 1
Seattle 3, Chicago White Sox 1
NATIONAL LEAGUE
St. Louis 18, Chicago Cubs 5
Philadelphia 11, San Diego 5
Atlanta 8, Washington 5
Pittsburgh 12, Cincinnati 1
L-A Dodgers 6, Milwaukee 4
Colorado 11, Arizona 10
SATURDAY RESULTS – July 21
(high school baseball)
STATE TOURNAMENT AT PRINCIPAL PARK IN DES MOINES
CLASS 1A QUARTERFINALS
#2-Lisbon 2, Don Bosco 1
#3-North Linn 6, #4-Remsen St. Mary’s (27-4) 3
DES MOINES — Sam Boardman’s bases-loaded triple keyed a five-run fifth inning for No. 3 North Linn Saturday afternoon and the Lynx rallied past No. 4 Remsen St. Mary’s 6-3 in the quarterfinal round of the 1A State Baseball Tournament at Principal Park. The win avenged a 5-1 loss a year ago to the Hawks in Des Moines. Back-to-back RBI singles by Derrick Schorg and Blaine Harpenau in the top of the fifth inning had erased a 1-0 deficit and gave St. Mary’s a 2-1 advantage. Harpenau had limited North Linn to one hit and three base runners in four shutout innings but due to the fact he had pitched in Tuesday’s Sub-State win over Gehlen, he had 55 pitches left for the week. He reached that plateau after four frames. David Grady took over in the fifth but lasted just five batters, four of which got hits. Boardman’s triple ended Grady’s day. Derrick Schorg pitched the final inning and two-thirds and gave up one more RBI single. St. Mary’s scored one more run in the sixth when Carter Kuchel tripled off the top of the right-center field wall and scored on Skylar Waldschmidt’s sacrifice fly. Ryan Miller and Jake Hilmer combined on a six-hitter with seven strike outs. Hilmer got the win in relief while Grady took the loss. St. Mary’s ends the season at 27-and-4 while North Linn improves to 41-and-3.
(major league baseball)
INTERLEAGUE
N-Y Yankees 7, N-Y Mets 6
Miami 3, Tampa Bay 2
Oakland 4, San Francisco 3, 11 innings
AMERICAN LEAGUE
Toronto 4, Baltimore 1
Detroit 5, Boston 0
Cleveland at Texas (N)
Kansas City 4, Minnesota 2
Houston 7, L-A Angels 0
Chicago White Sox 5, Seattle 0
NATIONAL LEAGUE
(game 1) Chicago Cubs 7, St. Louis 2
(game 2) St. Louis 6, Chicago Cubs 3
San Diego at Philadelphia, ppd.
Atlanta at Washington, ppd.
Pittsburgh 6, Cincinnati 2
Milwaukee 4, L-A Dodgers 2
Colorado 6, Arizona 5
SUNDAY RESULTS – July 22
(major league baseball)
INTERLEAGUE
Tampa Bay 6, Miami 4
Oakland 6, San Francisco 5, 10 innings
N-Y Mets at N-Y Yankees, ppd.
AMERICAN LEAGUE
Toronto 5, Baltimore 4
Boston 9, Detroit 1
Texas 5, Cleveland 0
Kansas City 5, Minnesota 3
L-A Angels 14, Houston 5
Seattle 8, Chicago White Sox 2
NATIONAL LEAGUE
Chicago Cubs 7, St. Louis 2
(game 1) San Diego 10, Philadelphia 2
(game 2) Philadelphia 5, San Diego 0
Washington 6, Atlanta 2
Pittsburgh 9 Cincinnati 2
L-A Dodgers 11, Milwaukee 2
Arizona 6, Colorado 1
