Girls’ Golf: Liechty in 13th, New London 5th After Day One:
Mount Pleasant’s Elli Liechty has herself inside the top-15 following Day One of the Class 3A Golf Tournament in Adel.
Liechty carded a 91 — good for 13th — yesterday, setting herself up for a great finish today, where she’ll tee off at 8:30 a.m.
The Panther senior birdied on five, while sinking five pars on her scorecard.
Washington’s Kiki Bruner is currently second in the Class 3A field, her teammate Anna Nacos is fourth.
The Demons lead the team standings in Class 3A by 17 strokes over second-place Gilbert.
Meanwhile in 1A, New London’s Taylor Phillips is tied for 11th through Day One at 18-over.
Sophie Malott and Hannah Ortberg are the next two highest on the leaderboard for New London, who is fifth in the team standings thus far.
Algona Bishop Garrigan leads the 1A team race by thirty strokes over second-place Grundy Center.
Danville’s Natalie Wilcox, competing on an individual basis, is 30th, carding a Day One 97.
Area Prep Baseball (Tuesday):
Wapello 13, Winfield-Mount Union 8
Cooper Garrison had three hits, including a triple, as Wapello rolled by Winfield-Mount Union 13-8 last night in a Super Conference tilt.
Owen Housman was the winning pitcher for the Indians throwing four innings allowing just two hits and one run while fanning six.
Chase Witte also had a two-hit evening, while driving in four.
Winfield-Mount Union rallied for five in the 6th inning, but saw Wapello strike for five of their own in the top of the 7th to put the game on ice.
The Wolves fell to 0-5. Wapello earned their first win to improve to 1-2.
Highland 3, Mediapolis 1
Chase Schultz kept Mediapolis hitters off balance all night for Highland, who earned a hard-fought 3-1 win last night.
Schultz went 6.2 innings, scattering four hits and a run, punching out 13.
Trevor McFarland and Schultz each drove in one for the Huskies.
McFarland earned the save for Highland after the Bulldogs rallied for their lone marker in the 7th inning.
Mediapolis fell to 1-2, while Highland improved to 4-1.
New London 15, Danville 0 (5 Innings)
New London rung the dinner bell early and often as they devoured Danville 15-0 in five innings yesterday in a Super Conference tilt.
Carter Allen had two hits and two runs batted in while Brendan Richey also poured in a multi-hit night.
Camden Kasel drove in three runs for the Tigers, who upped their ledger to 2-0.
Hecniel Rodriguez was the winning pitcher, tossing four shutout innings while striking out nine.
Danville slipped to 1-1.
Van Buren County 4, Cardinal 3
Louisa-Muscatine 5, Hillcrest Academy 4
Area Prep Softball (Tuesday):
Winfield-Mount Union 4, Wapello 0
Anna Anderson continued her hot start at the dish with three more hits in four at-bats as she helped guide Winfield-Mount Union to a 4-0 win yesterday over Wapello.
Carlee Sloan, Jobey Malone, and Melina Oepping all had two hits for the Lady Wolves.
Madie Anderson pitched a complete-game shutout, allowing just five hits while striking out 11.
Winfield-Mount Union improved to 4-1.
Wapello sunk to 1-4.
Highland 12, Mediapolis 5
Jayde Eberhardt had three hits but it was not enough as Mediapolis succumbed to Highland 12-5.
Payton Brun had two hits for the Huskies while also scoring three runs, driving in three runs and stealing two bases.
Hallie Mohr took the loss for the 0-4 Bullettes, tossing six innings allowing eight hits and eight earned runs.
Grace Batcheller was the winning arm for the Huskies going the first four innings striking out four.
Danville 6, New London 4
Morgan Waste had three hits, including a double, while driving in one as Danville upended New London 6-4, last night.
Ava Smith was dynamite in the circle for Danville tossing seven strong innings, yielding just five hits and two earned runs while striking out 11.
Ashlyn McSorely and Elly Manning both had two hits apiece for the Tigers.
Manning took the loss allowing just two earned runs over six innings.
Three Tiger errors aided the Danville win.
New London is now 1-4.
Danville improved to 1-2.
Fort Madison 11, Central Lee 2
Central Lee 4, Fort Madison 2
Van Buren County 4, Cardinal 1
West Burlington 8, Burlington 1
Boys’ Soccer: Nikes Roll Into Semifinals:
Gabe Zurita scored twice, while Cole Ward finished with two assists as Burlington Notre Dame cruised to a 4-1 win over Waterloo Columbus Catholic in the quarterfinal round of the Boys’ Class 1A State Soccer tournament.
Caden Murphy made seven saves in the pipes for the Nikes who improved to 21-1 and moved into tomorrow’s semifinals.
There they will meet up with fourth-seeded Iowa City Regina who blanked Greene County 3-0.
The bottom of the bracket saw Western Christian get by North Fayette Valley 2-0, while West Liberty knocked off St. Albert 2-1.