By: Nathan Bloechl — sports@kilj.com
State Golf: Liechty 16th, New London 4th:
Mount Pleasant senior Elli Liechty finished tied for 16th at this week’s Class 3A State Golf Meet at River Valley Golf Course in Adel.
Liechty followed up a round one 91 with a 92 yesterday and tied with four other golfers for 16th.
She finished with two birdies on her scorecard over the weekend.
Eden Lorhbach of Gilbert was the state champion with a five-over two day score.
Washington’s Kiki Bruner finished second overall.
The Demons were crowned team state champions, they finished 28 strokes better than that of second-place Gilbert.
In 1A, New London’s Taylor Phillips finished 8th overall helping guide New London to a 4th place team finish.
Phillips came out of the gates hot on day two with an 81 — the fourth best mark on the second day.
Lynville-Sully’s Greenlee Smock was the state champion, carding back-to-back 77’s.
Danville’s Natalie Wilcox tied for 30th, after a round two 95.
New London’s other finishers included Sophie Malott (34th) while Saige Barron, Emma Nye and Hannah Ortberg all tied for 47th.
Prep Baseball (Wednesday):
New London 37, Columbus 0
New London scored early and often as the Tigers rolled to a 37-0 win over Columbus last night.
Hecniel Rodriguez drove in nine runs, while Ryan Richey brought in six.
The Tigers pounded out 11 hits, were walked 16 times and were hit by seven pitches.
Rodriguez also went deep for New London, his first homer of the season.
Carter Allen was the winning pitcher, allowing just one hit over the mercy rule shortened four innings.
He struck out 10.
New London 9, Central Lee 1
In the night cap, New London scored three times in the 5th inning and four times in the 6th inning as they pulled away from Central Lee for a 9-1 win.
Hecniel Rodriguez had two triples in the win and scored a pair of runs.
Camden Kasel and Brenden Richey each had two hits apiece.
Tucker Gibbar drove in a pair of runs.
Josh Catala earned the win on the hill, allowing one hit and a walk over five scoreless innings, while striking out six.
Seth Bailey covered the final two frames while striking out four.
New London improved to 4-0 with the pair of wins.
Washington 8, Mediapolis 7
Washington 8, Mediapolis 6
Mediapolis had late leads in both ends of a nonconference doubleheader with Washington last night, but it was the Demons doing the late inning spooking as they rallied for 8-7 and 8-6 wins last night.
Cole Lipper and Jordan Anderson each had a pair of hits for the Bulldog offense in game one, while Jaxon Brooks had three hits in game two.
Josh Darbyshire had two hits in the nightcap, as well.
Mediapolis dropped to 1-4.
Prep Baseball: Mount Pleasant at Keokuk Tonight:
The Mount Pleasant baseball team (0-1) will be back on the diamond tonight when they travel to Joyce Park for a two-game set with Keokuk, to begin their conference season.
The Panthers were upended last week by Clear Creek-Amana 11-0 and will look to find their early season footing this evening.
Keokuk enters 0-1 as well, after falling to Central DeWitt 9-0.
Mount Pleasant has won ten straight tilts between the clubs dating back to 2017.
The doubleheader will begin at 5:30 p.m.
You can listen to both ends of the twinbill on FM 105.5.
Nathan Bloechl will have the call beginning shortly before first pitch of game one.
Prep Softball (Wednesday):
Columbus 12, Mount Pleasant 0
Columbus started hot, scoring six runs on four hits in the first inning on starter Emma Starr, as the Wildcats cruised to a 12-0 win over the Panthers.
Ella McNamee allowed six runs on three hits in relief.
Savana Walls had two hits for the Panthers including a double.
Mount Pleasant slipped to 0-5 with the loss.
Winfield-Mount Union 12, Danville 0
Madie Anderson threw a shortened complete game no-hit shutout as Winfield-Mount Union rolled to a 12-0 win over Danville.
Anderson struck out nine hitters and walked one over three innings.
Carlee Sloan had three hits including a double, while Anna Anderson and Emma Haines each had two hits.
Haines drove in four.
Melina Oepping clubbed her first homer of the season and drove in two.
The win improved the Lady Wolves to 5-1.
Central Lee 13, Holy Trinity 3
Macy Watkins had three hits, while Meghan Hop and Shanna Buford each clubbed two hits apiece as Central Lee crushed Holy Trinity 13-3 last night.
Hopp drove in three runs for the Hawks.
Watkins scored three times.
Central Lee upped their ledger to 5-1.