SPORTS

Hawkettes Drop County Rivals, 9-8, in Ogden Tourney

East Greene broke into the win column for the 2009 season with a 9-8 victory over Jefferson-Sranton in the Bob Morgan Classic at Ogden on Saturday, May 30.

Ashley Thorpe got the win for the Hawkettes, giving up 9 hits, striking out 1 and allowing no walks. Laura Neal and Jennifer Kennedy shared mound duties for J-S with Kennedy taking the loss. Combined they gave up 7 hits, walked 5 and struck out 7. The game was a bit sloppy as EG had 5 errors and the Rams 4.

In other games at the Ogden tourney, the Hawkettes fell to the host school, 12-0, in 3 innings and to Madrid, 9-7, an improvement over their five-run loss to the Tigers earlier in the week in the conference opener at Madrid. J-S bounced back from the EG loss to beat Ogden, 5-0, and South Hamilton, 10-2. Boone won the championship with a 6-2 win over Odgen.

The Hawkettes had all kind of problems with Ogden as Thorpe gave up 12 hits and the defense had a whopping 9 errors. Heidi Kiner got the lone hit for East Greene with a single.

Things went more smoothly against Madrid, as EG pounded out 13 hits with Malarie Gilley going 2-3 with a triple and 2 RBIs. Kaitlynn Gannon went 3-4 with 2 RBIs and Megan Johnston was 2-3 with 2 RBIs. Liz Koch was 2-3 and Molly Neese smacked a double.

Thorpe and Gilley shared mound duties, giving up 8 hits, 4 walks and striking out 3. Sarah Kleinwort got the win for Madrid, giving up 13 hits walking 4 and striking out 5.

EG showed improvement on defense, whittling their errors down from 7 in their first game against Madrid to 4. Madrid played errorless, while in the first matchup with EG they had just one.

East Greene had faced Panorama in a make-up game on Friday, the night before the tournament, falling 10-3. Thorpe took the loss, giving up 15 hits, 4 walks and striking out 4. Sarah Meinecke got the win for the Panthers. She gave up 11 hits, walked 8, and struck out 2. EG had 4 errors and the Panthers were guilty of 2 miscues.

The Hawkettes ran into some tough pitching from Earlham's Amber Logemann, a freshman, as she struck out 10 EG batters to help the Cardinals to a 16-0 win in 6 innings in Grand Junction on Monday. Logemann have up just 2 hits and no walks. Thorpe took the loss for EG, giving up 11 hits, walking 2 and striking out 2. Earlham played an errorless game while the Hawkettes racked up 4 errors.

After Tuesday's game at Van Meter was rained out, the Hawkettes returned to action Thursday where they dropped a tough battle to Des Moines Christian, 6-3, on the Lions' home diamond in Urbandale. The Hawkettes were leading 3-2 in the bottom of the fifth inning, but DMC's Natalie Morris hit a double and drove in the tying and go-ahead runs. DMC added two more runs to run its conference mark to 3-0. EG fell to 0-4 in the West Central and 1-6 overall.

J-S won over Roland-Story, 3-0, in Jefferson on June 1 and then fell to North Polk, the top-ranked team in Class 2-A, in a heartbreaker on the road, 1-0, on June 2 to even their conference record to 2-2. The next night the Rams lost another tough one, falling to CMB (Collins-Maxwell/Baxter) 2-0 in 14 innings in Jefferson. Kayla Promes was on the mound for J-S and she racked up 14 strikeouts. The loss dropped J-S to 2-3 in Heart of Iowa play and to 4-5 overall.

SCOREBOARD
West Central Conference Standings (thru 6-4)
GLR 4-0
EAR 3-0
DMC 2-0
MAD 2-1
VMR 2-1
PAN 2-3
CRB 1-2
WCV 0-2
GTH 0-3
EGR 0-4

Friday and Saturday, June 5-6:
WC Non-Conference Scores
DMC 11, Lone Tree 1
Louisa-Muscatine 17, DMC 8
West Branch 3, DMC 0
EAR 5, East Union 0
Area Scores:
Odgen 6, Southeast Webster-Grand 4, SWG ranked #10 in Class 1A

Thursday, June 4:
Conference Scores
DMC 6, EGR 3
EAR 4, GTH 3 (10 inn.)
GLR 2, CRB 1
MAD 4, PAN 3
VMR 4, WCV 2
Area Scores
CMB 2, JS 0 (14 inn.)
Boone 10, Norwalk 0 (6 inn.)
SWG 4, Northeast Hamilton 1
West Bend-Mallard 16, Prairie Valley 7

Wednesday, June 3:
Conference Scores
DMC 15, GTH 5 (5 inn.)
Non-conference Games
PAN 6, Prairie Valley 3
Area Scores
CMB 3, Ogden 0
Alta 15, RCL 3 (3 inn.)
Carroll 9, Perry 0

Tuesday, June 2:
Conference Scores
GLR 2, PAN 1
Area Scores
North Polk 1, J-S 0, NP ranked #1 in Class 2A
Newell-Fonda 12, RC-L 2 (5 inn.) NF ranked #4 in Class 1A
SWG 7, CAL 3

Monday, June 1:
Conference Scores
EAR 16, EGR 0 (6 inn.)
GLR 10, MAD 1
PAN 8, CRB 4
VMR 6, GTH 4