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How do you turn nine hits into 18 runs?
In the second game of a doubleheader sweep over Postville Thursday, walks helped the Trojans earn an 18-3 win, scoring the highest run total of the season.
Three different Pirate pitchers threw a total of 13 walks in the Trojan win.
Turkey Valley, on the...
Braydon Fisher understandably has no regrets when it comes to his decision to play baseball this summer.
“I love playing baseball with this team, and I love playing anything for New Hampton,” the senior outfielder said after the Chickasaw concluded a wildly successful regular season with a 7-3 win...
New Hampton's bats got going in the seventh inning of its regional semifinal game Friday at Cresco, but the Cadets struck down what would by the tying run, winning the game 2-1.
On a hit by Kallie Olson, New Hampton coach Jack Seelhammer sent one of the teams fastest runners — Rachel Rinken —...
All of a sudden, the Nashua-Plainfield team has heated up.
The Huskies won three of four games in the past week — beating Rockford 7-6, pounding Lake Mills 12-6, falling to Hampton-Dumont 6-5 and routing Tripoli 10-0 — and their timing couldn’t be better.
“We’re red hot right now, and with the...
If Hannah Holthaus has learned one thing about her Nashua-Plainfield softball team in her first year of coaching, it is this: The Huskies are a resilient bunch.
And they showed it last week.
After playing one of their worst games of the season in an 11-1 loss to Rockford on Wednesday, Nashua-...
Nashua-Plainfield needed a good start in Tuesday’s Class 2A regional opener against Belmond-Klemme.
Thanks to Meghan Wright and Toyia Griffin, the Huskies got it.
The two hit back-to-back two-run home runs in the first inning, and Nashua-Plainfield cruised to a 10-3 win over the Broncos.
“I think...
New Hampton made history Tuesday night as it pulled off a rarity by claiming its fourth straight Northeast Iowa Conference baseball title, although the Chickasaws had to share in the spoils this year.
The Chickasaws earned at least a share of the league title with a 5-3 win over Charles City in...
Four runs scored by New Hampton in the second inning of the regional first round against Osage Tuesday would be more than enough to move the Chickasaw softball team on.
But they added a few more runs anyway, defeating the Green Devils 7-2.
Bailey Knowlton knocked out a 2-RBI triple in the second...
Turkey Valley will wrap up the Upper Iowa Conference season this week as they finish a doubleheader that was started earlier in the season at Postville and was rained out.
At least they’re going to attempt to finish it on Thursday, the day this week with the best chance of rain.
With a double win,...
This wasn’t the way New Hampton wanted to go into the Class 3A regional softball tournament.
The Chickasaws made 17 errors in four games — three of which ended with New Hampton on the wrong side of the scoreboard — at the Don Bosco Invitational and limped to the end of the regular season.
But here’...
