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REMSEN — The MMCRU baseball team matched a season-high in scoring in a 16-0 win in four innings against Sioux Central on Tuesday. While the team’s other 16-run game saw the runs fairly evenly spread out across three innings against Hartley-Melvin-Sanborn, in this game all the runs came in one turn at the plate as the team batted around and around...

REMSEN — MMCRU topped Trinity Christian in a pair of games Monday. The baseball team picked up a 3-0 win over the Tigers in a pitching duel in which the Royals broke a scoreless deadlock in the fifth with a run and then added two more in the sixth. Dean Jenness threw a two-hit shutout as he struck out 11 in a complete game effort...

MOVILLE — The Kingsley-Pierson baseball and softball teams pounced on Woodbury Central in action Monday. The Class 1A No. 8 ranked K-P baseball team extended their winning streak out to 10 games with a 10-1 win to avenge one of their three losses this season which came in a 4-2 game in the first week of June...

SPENCER — Le Mars picked up a pair of wins when Spencer came to town earlier in the month, but the Tigers returned the favor Monday when the Bulldogs traveled to play their Lakes Conference foes. Spencer won both the baseball and softball games including an extra-inning walk-off victory on the softball diamond...

LE MARS — Akron-Westfield earned a pair of War Eagle Conference wins over Gehlen Catholic at the Riverview Complex on Monday. The two teams met in the season opener for both teams but these games counted in the league standings with the softball team winning 5-4 in eight innings and the baseball team picking up a 5-1 victory...

SLOAN — Gehlen Catholic topped Kingsley-Pierson 7-5 on the softball diamond at a tournament hosted by Westwood over the weekend. The two Plymouth County teams each went 2-2 over the two days of play. Katie Peters went 3-for-4 with a double and RBI and a pair of runs scored in the team’s win over the Panthers as she was the only player with multiple hits for Gehlen. Sydney Livermore drove in a pair and Addison Weber picked up an RBI for the team in the contest...

GRANVILLE — Remsen St. Mary’s and Gehlen Catholic competed at Vosburg Field for the Spalding baseball tournament over the weekend. The Hawks fell in the title game to Class 2A No. 9 West Lyon by a 9-2 score with the Wildcats one of three undefeated teams in the state at 19-0 following the win...

SLOAN — The Class 1A No. 9 ranked Kingsley-Pierson baseball team scored in all five of their turns at the plate in a 14-0 win over Westwood on Friday. The Panthers drew nine walks and knocked out eight hits as they scored at least two runs each inning...

SPENCER — Class 1A No. 5 Akron-Westfield picked up their lone win at a softball tourney hosted by Spencer against the host school in a 7-2 game Friday. Tori Nemesio went 4-for-4 at the plate with a steal and run scored as she also had an RBI. Natalie Nielsen’s 3-for-4 performance was the other multi-hit game for the Westerners as she also had the only extra-base hit with a double. She drove in a pair of runs...

SPENCER — The Le Mars Community softball team finished the weekend with a 2-1 record at a tournament hosted by Spencer. The team won both of their games Friday beginning with a 10-7 win over Boyden-Hull/Rock Valley which lasted just five innings. The Bulldogs did most of their damage via 10 walks issued by the two Nighthawk pitchers. ...

HULL — Hinton picked up a pair of wins over Trinity Christian in action Friday. The softball team doubled up the Tigers in a 12-6 score with a six-run fifth inning breaking a 5-5 tie. Bella Badar blasted a home run as part of her 3-for-4 night at the plate as she ended with 2 RBI. She scored four times in the contest as she also reached via walk...

REMSEN — Hailey Klein sent the ball off her bat and into the outfield for the game-winning hit in the bottom of the eighth inning as Bailey Penning came home for the winning run in Remsen St. Mary’s 8-7 ballgame against Clay Central-Everly on Friday...

AKRON — The Akron-Westfield softball and baseball teams picked up wins by large margins over Hartley-Melvin-Sanborn on consecutive nights Thursday and Friday. The Class 1A No. 5 Lady Westerners scored all of their runs in a 14-0 game in the second inning as they batted just twice in the three inning game. Alayna Mullinix went 2-for-3 with 2 RBI and a pair of runs scored in the contest while Jaden Harris reached on a single and walk, scoring twice...

SERGEANT BLUFF — The Le Mars Community softball team picked up a big 10-1 upset win against Class 4A No. 6 ranked Sergeant Bluff-Luton on Thursday, ending a 16-game winning streak for the Warriors in which they outscored their opponents 164-41. The Warriors did go with their No. 2 pitcher Madelyn Mogensen, but she still had a very low 1.56 ERA in nearly 50 innings entering the game, just back of top starter Kinzey Foley who has a 1.52 ERA in almost 97 innings thrown...

MARCUS/CLEGHORN — The MMCRU baseball and softball teams each dropped games to West Sioux in action Thursday. The Class 2A No. 10 West Sioux softball team picked up their ninth consecutive win in a 15-5 victory lasting six innings. MMCRU trailed by just two runs entering the sixth, but an eight-run inning brought the margin up to 10 runs and ended the game an inning early as the Royals were unable to push across any runs to extend the game in the bottom of the sixth...

PAULLINA — The Gehlen Catholic baseball team earned their second win of the season by taking down South O’Brien by a 7-5 score Thursday. The Jays broke a 5-5 tie in the fifth and added an insurance run in the sixth in the victory. Gehlen rapped out 10 hits including a home run from Zach Kraft as he finished with 2 RBI. It is the second home run for the team this season with Kraft hitting both of them...

ONAWA — The Class 1A No. 9 ranked Kingsley-Pierson baseball team had little trouble in securing their eighth consecutive win as they took down West Monona by a 10-1 score Wednesday. Damon Schmid singled and scored twice while also finishing with 2 RBI. ...

Sentinel Player of the Week: Anna Bubke, Kingsley-Pierson 2-for-4, 3 RBI; 3 IP (W), 0 H, 0 R, 1 BB, 3 Ks vs. Whiting 1-for-2, 1 R, 2 RBI vs. Whiting 3-for-5, 2B, 2 RBI; 4 IP, 3 H, 2 R, 0 ER, 0 BB, 2 Ks vs. OABCIG 3-for-4, 2B, HR, 1 R, 3 RBI; 7 IP (W), 6 H, 1 R, 0 ER, 0 BB, 2 Ks vs. MVAOCOU...

HAWARDEN/IRETON — The Remsen St. Mary’s baseball team rallied for four runs in their final at-bat to get past West Sioux 7-5 in their game Wednesday. A hit batsman and three walks helped fuel the rally for the Hawks with Blaine Harpenau hitting a triple and Brayden Ricke knocking out a hit in the inning to put the team in front...

AKRON — The Class 2A No. 10 Hinton baseball team relied on the arm of senior Aiden Brock to pick up an 8-0 win over Akron-Westfield on Wednesday. Brock threw a no-hitter as he struck out seven in as many innings of work. The senior moves to 4-0 on the season as he sports a 1.06 ERA on a pitching staff which has a 1.37 ERA as a team this season. ...

LE MARS — After losing a pair of games to Storm Lake at their place earlier this season, the Le Mars Community baseball and softball teams returned the favor Wednesday by picking up two wins over their Lakes Conference foe. The Bulldogs picked up a 3-0 win in the baseball game to end a four-game winning streak for the Tornadoes who received votes in the latest Iowa High School Baseball Coaches Association rankings...

REMSEN/ROYAL — MMCRU picked up a pair of softball wins with a 10-1 victory over Sioux Central on Tuesday and a 4-2 win over Clay Central-Everly on Wednesday. A six-run sixth inning opened up what was a fairly close contest against Sioux Central. Taylor Harpenau led the Royals with a 3-for-3 game at the plate as she scored twice and also drove in a run. Kaelee Letsche had a pair of hits and an RBI while Kristina Goth, Emily Dreckman and Mya Holmes all ended with 2 RBI...

HINTON — The one-loss Class 2A No. 10 Hinton baseball team hasn’t been in too many uncomfortable situations this season. Most of their games have been run-rule blowouts including a 10-0 win in five innings against MMCRU less than a week before. The Blackhawks got a good lesson in how to rally from a deficit Tuesday as they trailed 4-0 after three innings before eventually pulling in front for a 10-5 victory...

KINGSLEY — The Kingsley-Pierson softball team took down MVAOCOU 8-1 in action Tuesday. The win is the second in as many games with the Rams this season after winning 14-2 in four innings a few weeks ago. The Panthers got the offense going right away in the first as Hayden Dunne ripped a double on the first pitch she saw. ...

KINGSLEY — Jessen Reinking had one of his best outings of the season in a complete game shutout against OABCIG on Monday. Reinking struck out 12 while giving up no runs on a pair of hits and walks as the Panthers won 7-0 for their seventh straight victory...

GRANVILLE — Gehlen Catholic picked up a walk-off win over MMCRU in action Monday as they claimed the 4-3 victory. It was the third consecutive walk-off game the Royals have been involved in after splitting extra-inning games with Hinton last week. Anna Britt beat out a two-out infield single as Sydney Livermore crossed home plate for the winning run in the bottom of the seventh...

LAKE PARK — The Akron-Westfield and Harris-Lake Park softball teams are heading in opposite directions with the Westerners’ 15-5 win in six innings Monday giving the Class 1A No. 8 ranked team their sixth consecutive win and the Wolves their sixth straight loss...

HULL — Remsen St. Mary’s earned a pair of wins over Trinity Christian in action Monday. The Lady Hawks used a seven-run fifth inning to come away with an 11-9 victory over the Tigers. Ashley Willman hit a 2 RBI double to give the Hawks a 5-4 lead and the inning was far from being over. ...

HINTON — The Hinton softball team moved to 7-0 in games in which the team scores in double digits as the Blackhawks picked up a 12-0 victory over Clay Central-Everly in three innings Monday. “Tonight we made the most of our opportunities and picked up a conference win,” Hinton Head Coach Jennifer Jacobs-List said...

TREYNOR — It was a mixed bag for the Class 2A No. 10 Hinton baseball team on Saturday. The Blackhawks topped 2A No. 4 Treynor, but also lost their first game of the season to Iowa City Regina. A six-run second inning proved to be the difference in the loss to the Regals. ...

AKRON — The Akron-Westfield softball team finally had some success at a weekend tournament as they picked up a pair of wins at their own tourney Saturday to reach a season-best winning streak of five games. The Class 1A No. 8 Lady Westerners had gone just 1-6 in weekend tournaments prior to their wins over Woodbury Central and West Lyon...

KINGSLEY — The Kingsley-Pierson softball and baseball teams each picked up a set of run-rule wins over River Valley in action Friday. The Lady Panthers, who lost 12-0 in three innings to the Wolverines in their first meeting of the season, turned the tables in a 14-4 win in five innings against River Valley for a season-best third consecutive win with all three of those games seeing the Panthers score at least 14 runs...

REMSEN — Remsen St. Mary’s came away with three wins over Harris-Lake Park on Friday with two wins on the softball diamond and another across the street at the baseball field. The softball doubleheader featured wins by 6-5 and 13-10 scores for the Hawks...

COUNCIL BLUFFS — The Le Mars Community baseball team split a pair of games as they traveled to Council Bluffs for a tournament on Saturday. The team opened with a 9-2 win over Clear Lake, a team who had won five straight entering the weekend. Clear Lake scored both of their runs in the first inning, but could not score any more after that as Alec Dreckman clamped down the rest of the game as he struck out nine batters...

HARTLEY — It took 10 games to get there, but the Gehlen Catholic baseball team is winless no more after an 11-7 victory over another winless team in Hartley-Melvin-Sanborn on Friday. After jumping out to a 3-0 lead in the first, the Hawks answered for two but HMS was never able to pull in front in the contest with a three-run sixth by the Jays giving them some breathing room for the win...

HINTON/MARCUS/CLEGHORN — The Hinton baseball team picked up a shutout win over MMCRU while the softball teams from each school played on back-to-back nights with a make-up date Thursday and regularly scheduled game Friday. The softball teams split a pair of one-run games with the home team coming out victorious in extra-inning walk-off fashion in both cases...

AKRON — The Class 1A No. 12 South O’Brien softball team had won 12 straight games to begin the season but that streak came to an end Thursday as No. 8 Akron-Westfield handed them their first loss in a 3-1 final. The Wolverines pushed one across in the top of the seventh, but it was too little, too late as A-W had scored lone runs in the second, fourth and fifth innings. Autumn Bundy earned RBIs for two of those runs as she recorded the only two hits for the Westerners in the game...

WHITING — Kingsley-Pierson dominated Whiting in baseball and softball action Thursday in three shutout wins. The Lady Panthers ended a six-game losing streak with a pair of run-rule wins by scores of 20-0 and 14-0. The team scored 13 runs in the first inning of their 20-0 win which was over in the minimum three innings. ...

Sentinel Player of the Week: Brittany Johnson, Remsen St. Mary’s 1-for-2, SB vs. MMCRU 3-for-3, 2-2B, 2 R, 3 RBI vs. Whiting 2-for-4, 2B, 2 R, 1 RBI vs. Storm Lake 2-for-4, 2B, 2 RBI vs. South O’Brien 1-for-2, BB, 1 R vs. Hinton Remsen St. Mary’s Brittany Johnson has had a solid week at the plate for the Hawks going 9-of-15 with 6 RBI. ...

AKRON — The Akron-Westfield baseball team topped Unity Christian 12-0 in five innings Wednesday for their largest margin of victory this season. The Westerners got out to a 3-0 lead in the first as they chased starter Dylan Liston from the game before he recorded an out as he walked three and had runs score on errors as just one of the runs against him was earned...

IRETON/HAWARDEN — The Gehlen Catholic softball and baseball teams dropped their games at West Sioux on Wednesday. The Lady Jays dropped a close 5-4 game as they fought back from a 5-0 deficit with a pair of runs in the fifth and sixth, but couldn’t get anything in the seventh as the Falcons held on for the win...

HULL — The Le Mars baseball team picked up a win over Western Christian on Wednesday while the Wolfpack won on a walk-off in the softball game. Le Mars jumped out to a 4-0 lead after three innings and kept that same margin by the end of the game in a 6-2 victory. ...

REMSEN — Class 2A No. 10 Hinton moved to 12-0 on the season with an 11-3 win over Remsen St. Mary’s on Wednesday. The loss snapped a five-game winning streak for the Hawks entering the contest. Hinton struck first for three runs in the second and never trailed in the game as they scored in four of the next five innings to reach double digits for the fourth consecutive outing and the ninth time this season...

KINGSLEY — Kingsley-Pierson led 1-0 after an inning, but the Lady Panthers were unable to snap a losing streak as they fell to MMCRU 7-3 in non-conference action Tuesday. The Royals followed up with two runs in each of the next three innings and added one more in the fifth to pull in front 7-1 before the Panthers got two back in the sixth...

REMSEN — Blaine Harpenau threw a lightning-shortened five inning shutout Tuesday as Remsen St. Mary’s took down rival West Sioux in a 3-0 game. Harpenau was sharp as he threw a season-high 13 strikeouts while allowing just three hits and no walks. The Hawks weren’t able to get much going against Hunter Dekkers, but they were able to string together a three-run rally in the third. ...

The Le Mars Stars 10U won the Spencer Slugfest tournament hosted May 31-June 2. Thanks to excellent pitching, error-free fielding, and hot bats they took first place with a 5-1 win against Clear Lake Black. The Stars are 14-2 on the year and looking forward to an upcoming Orange City Tournament on June 15...

LE MARS — The Le Mars Community baseball team’s rally from a 6-0 deficit fell short Tuesday against MOC-Floyd Valley as the Dutchmen won the game 7-5. MOC-Floyd Valley scored five runs in the first inning and added another in the second to get out to a 6-0 lead. The Bulldogs fought back to within two by plating four runs in the third but that was as close as the team could get as both teams scored once in the seventh...

PAULLINA — The South O’Brien baseball and softball teams are on different ends of the spectrum with the softball team holding a perfect record on the season and the baseball team still searching for a win. Those trends held up on Monday as the school hosted Remsen St. Mary’s...

HOLSTEIN/GALVA — Class 1A No. 10 The Kingsley-Pierson baseball team scored a season-high in runs as they routed Ridge View by a 17-3 final in action Monday. The runs are most by the team in a game since scoring 19 in a win over Whiting last season. Nine walks and 13 hits helped the offense score their runs. ...

REMSEN — Akron-Westfield picked up a nail-biter of a win over MMCRU in baseball Monday. The Westerners snapped a losing skid of three games with an 8-7 victory in the baseball game. A-W got off to a quick start with five runs in the first. MMCRU answered with a pair in the bottom of the frame before the Westerners extended the lead back out to five in the second. ...