Sports, Tuesday, May 25th

By: Nathan Bloechl — sports@kilj.com 

Girls’ Golf: Liechty to State:

Mount Pleasant senior Elli Liechty has punched her ticket to the 2021 State Golf Meet.

Liechty shot a team-best 88, which was good enough for 5th on the leaderboard.

Washington’s terrific trio of Kiki Bruner, Anna Nacos and Josei Tanner went 1-2-3, with Bruner burning up the course with a 71.

Amy Sullivan of Knoxville ended her 18-hole day in fourth with an 87.

Sami Wibben was second on Mount Pleasant with a 97 while Ryann Davidson carded a 98.

Kylie Walderbach finished with a 107.

The Panthers finished 11 strokes shy of qualifying the team.

Mount Pleasant had 390 strokes to finish fourth.

Washington and Lisbon were the top two clubs in the team race.

Knoxville finished third.

The State Golf meet will be held June 1st and 2nd at River Valley Golf Course in Adel.

Girls’ Golf: New London Qualifies for State:

The New London Tiger girls’ golf team is heading to the 1A State Golf meet.

The Tigers qualified as a team after carding a 392 to finish as runner-up in the eight-team field at Prairie Knolls Country Club in New Sharon.

Sigourney was the meet champion with a 386.

Taylor Phillips led New London with an 84, while Greenlee Smock of Lynville-Sully was named the meet medalist.

The 1A State Golf Tournament will be held at Ames Golf and Country Club June 1st and 2nd.

College Track and Field: Mount Pleasant’s Beatty to Nationals:

Former Mount Pleasant standout now Central Dutch sophomore Sam Beatty has punched his ticket to the NCAA Division III Track National Championships in Greensboro, North Carolina, the school has announced.

Beatty has also been named to the All-Central Region team after hitting 6-8.75 earlier this year.

Beatty is currently slotted as the 12th seed in the high jump.

The top mark is held by St. John Fisher (Rochester, New York) senior Kyle Rollins at an absurd 7-1.

Prep Softball: IGHSAU Rankings Announced:

The first wave of the IGHSAU softball rankings have been announced:

Class 1A

  1. Newell-Fonda 18-3
  2. Lynnville-Sully 20-3
  3. Lisbon 21-5
  4. Collins-Maxwell 21-2
  5. Sigourney 15-5
  6. Wayne 17-5
  7. Newman Catholic 19-4
  8. Akron-Westfield 17-3
  9. Martensdale-St. Marys 15-6
  10. Clarksville 19-1
  11. Twin Cedars 20-6
  12. Exira-EHK 15-1
  13. Turkey Valley 17-2
  14. Southeast Warren 15-7
  15. Lenox 11-9

Class 2A

  1. Louisa-Muscatine 20-6
  2. Northeast 20-4
  3. Central Springs 17-4
  4. Wilton 14-4
  5. Earlham 19-5
  6. Mount Ayr 10-5
  7. Ridge View 11-9
  8. North Linn 25-1
  9. Underwood 14-5
  10. Van Meter 14-9
  11. Durant 10-5
  12. Iowa City Regina Catholic 9-14
  13. Colfax-Mingo 12-6
  14. East Marshall 15-3
  15. Treynor 9-5

Class 3A

  1. Williamsburg 25-5
  2. Davenport Assumption 21-6
  3. Mount Vernon 21-6
  4. West Burlington/Notre Dame 14-4
  5. Atlantic 17-2
  6. North Polk 14-4
  7. West Liberty 14-2
  8. Eddyville-Blakesburg-Fremont 14-9
  9. Spirit Lake 13-4
  10. Anamosa 13-2
  11. West Lyon 12-3
  12. Clarke 11-6
  13. Humboldt 20-3
  14. Nevada 11-9
  15. Roland-Story 10-11

Class 4A

  1. Winterset 17-7
  2. West Delaware 21-5
  3. Fairfield 24-2
  4. North Scott 17-11
  5. Norwalk 17-7
  6. Dallas Center-Grimes 21-10
  7. Carlisle 20-4
  8. Xavier 16-10
  9. Charles City 13-4
  10. ADM 12-5
  11. Benton Community 15-9
  12. Creston 13-6
  13. Harlan 15-5
  14. Burlington 17-7
  15. Marion 15-9

Class 5A

  1. Fort Dodge 28-4
  2. Muscatine 19-4
  3. Waukee 23-5
  4. Indianola 14-6
  5. Iowa City High 18-5
  6. West Des Moines Valley 23-5
  7. Cedar Rapids Kennedy 26-1
  8. Iowa City Liberty 17-9
  9. Pleasant Valley 17-7
  10. Johnston 15-8
  11. Ankeny Centennial 23-9
  12. Bettendorf 19-7
  13. Ankeny 19-11
  14. Southeast Polk 11-13
  15. Cedar Rapids Prairie 12-8

Prep Softball: Panthers Open Season:

The Mount Pleasant softball team will open their season tonight against the Lady Dees of Albia, on the road in a nonconference tilt.

The Panthers finished last season 4-18 and will be under the direction of new head coach Mike Beason, who is taking over for Troy Mears who stepped down from the position over the winter.

Mount Pleasant will rely heavily on junior Savana Walls, one of their top returning hitters from last year as well as continued improvement from youngsters Ella McNamee, Emma Starr and Jayden Housh.

The Panthers are, however, in the unenviable position of replacing 90.1 innings that have been vacated following the graduation of All-Conference talent Sydni Coleman.

Grace Kelley and Jordan Crooks were the only two returning arms who logged any time last season.

Albia has won the the last three matchups between the schools.

Tonight’s game will have first pitch at 7:00 p.m. at Albia High School.

Prep Baseball/Softball Scoreboard:

Baseball

Cardinal 15, Winfield-Mount Union 0

Central Lee 2, Wapello 0

Notre Dame 14, Lone Tree 0

Softball

Central Lee 4, Wapello 3

Holy Trinity 8, Mediapolis 3