Sports

Hawks Open 2009 Baseball Season Tonight at Jefferson

East Greene takes on Jefferson-Scranton in its season opener tonight at 5:30 p.m. in Jefferson with the JV teams squaring off first with the varsity game to follow.

East Greene is coming off a 15-10 season that saw them battling for the West Central Conference crown up until the final game in a very tight championship race. The Hawks finished as runner-up with a 12-6 conference mark just behind four teams that tied for first at 13-5: Coon Rapids-Bayard, Des Moines Christian, Panorama and Van Meter.

EG beat the Rams last year 11-7 on a grand slam homer in the bottom of the seventh inning on the Hawks' home diamond at Rippey. J-S was playing as a 3A school last year, while East Greene is in 1A.

East Greene was originally scheduled to open the 2009 campaign against Southeast Webster-Grand last night (Tuesday) in Rippey but that game was rained out. The East Greene game is the home opener for J-S, which is a 2A school this year and in its second year in the Heart of Iowa Conference. Last year the Rams finished second in the Heart of Iowa large school division and were 17-13 overall.