East Greene hosts Glidden-Ralston tonight in the last regular season baseball game and most likely the last high school game to be played at the venerable Rippey ball park. EG and Jefferson-Scranton will become Greene County in all sports beginning in the fall.
The Hawks are looking to beat the Wildcats and move out of the cellar of the Rolling Hills Conference. Both teams are 3-10 in league play.
East Greene picked up a win over Orient-Macksburg, 9-6, last night in Macksburg. The EG win followed completion of a game with OM suspended after 4½ innings by rain earlier in the season. The Bulldogs were leading 8-2 when play was halted due to rain. The two teams finished that game out last night with OM prevailing 12-5.
Reed Ostrander and T.J. Lint shared mound duties for the Hawks with Lint getting the win. He pitched for 3 2/3 innings and Ostrander pitched for 2 1/3. Combined, they struck out nine, walked two and gave up 10 hits.
Ostrander and Lint were solid on offense. Ostrander went 3-4 with two doubles and 3 RBIs. Lint had a double good for 3 RBIs. The Hawks totaled nine hits for the game. Lance Ross had two stolen bases and Lint one.
EYE ON GJ SAYS: After struggling to a 1-17 mark with a number of close one- and two-run losses, the young EG squad is now starting to click. The Hawks have won three of their last five games. The wins have come over solid competition—Walnut, Iowa Christian and Orient-Macksburg. Those teams finished third, fourth and fifth in the league.
EG beat Walnut in Rippey on Friday, 4-2. The conference win was sandwiched between non-conference losses on the road to Madrid, 10-0, and Colo-Nesco, 8-3.
District play begins Saturday in Coon Rapids and the EG and GR will face each other again in a first-round game. The winner will face Coon Rapids-Bayard on Tuesday in Coon Rapids.
Coon Rapids-Bayard is a favorite to take the district title along with Exira/Elk Horn-Kimballton, winners of the Rolling Hills crown with a 13-1 mark.
Rolling Hills Conference
Exira/Elk Horn-Kimballton 13-1
CAM (Anita) 11-3
Walnut 9-5
Iowa Christian/Ankeny Christian 7-7
Orient-Macksburg 5-9
Adair-Casey 4-10
Glidden-Ralston 3-10
East Greene (Grand Junction) 3-10
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