MHS starts strong with win over Iowa City High
IOWA CITY — A hard-fought win over Iowa City High in its opening game of the day highlighted the Marshalltown softball team’s Friday at the Rick Doran Classic. The Bobcats opened play with a 2-1 win over the Little Hawks. Marshalltown dropped a 4-0 contest to Pleasant Valley to end the day. Iowa City High and Marshalltown were locked in a 1-1 tie going into the bottom of the sixth before the Bobcats pushed across the winning run. Jordan Loney’s second hit of the day, a triple, started the winning rally and she came around to score on an error. Kallie Schive earned the win in the circle for MHS, scattering eight hits and allowing one run. Lauren Lockhart had a double for the Bobcats and Sam Mitchell added a single. The Little Hawks had been ranked as high as 11th in Class 4A earlier this season. “It was a good win for us. We got some timely hits, a couple real big hits and some extra base hits,” said Marshalltown head coach Mike Vint.
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ROLAND — West Marshall closed out play at the Roland-Story Softball Classic Friday with a 10-2 victory over Webster City.
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NEVADA — Class 2A No. 5 BCLUW brought home a second-place finish at the Nevada softball tournament Friday.
The Comets defeated Gilbert and Interstate 35 to advance to the championship game against fourth-ranked Bondurant-Farra.
PREP BASEBALL: Mustangs go 0-2 at BCLUW tournament
BEAMAN — East Marshall was handed a pair of setbacks Friday at the Comet Baseball Invitational.
Host BCLUW edged the Mustangs 10-9 in the consolation game.
Honorable mention all-state honors for Gimbel, Schwartz
Two area players have received honorable mention selection on the Iowa Girls All-State Soccer team.
» Full StoryPayback delivered
Fourteen at-bats and one run.
The trip to Mason City is already a long one and after Marshalltown scored one run combined to be swept in a doubleheader June 15 the trip must have seemed even longer.
