SWEEP SWG IN 3; FACE NEH TONIGHT @ BURNSIDE
East Greene swept Southeast Webster-Grand in three games to get a key regional volleyball victory on SWG’s home court in Burnside on Wednesday, Oct. 19. The Hawkettes’ 25-20, 25-20, 25-17 win moved them on to the quarterfinal round tonight against Northeast Hamilton (Blairsburg). EG returns to Burnside for the 7 p.m. match.
NEH beat CAL (Latimer) 25-21, 25-19, 25-13 on its home court Oct. 19 to advance. NEH (6-16) finished in a tie for 8th place at 2-6 with CAL and Dunkerton in the 11-team Iowa Star Conference. Tripoli, the No. 1 team in Class 1A and defending three-time state champion, won the Iowa Star with an 8-0 mark. Sixth-ranked Janesville (26-10) tied with North Tama for second place (behind Tripoli) in the Iowa Star. Those two teams square off tonight in Janesville in Region 7.
The Hawkettes improved their season record to 9-15 with the win over SWG, a team they lost to in four games in the season opener, also at Burnside. SWG finished the season 4-18.
The winner tonight advances on to the semifinal round on Friday at Woodward against the winner of a match tonight in Woodward between Madrid (9-12) and 10th-ranked Woodward-Granger (17-5). Madrid advanced with a very close win over Colo-Nesco 15-25, 25-17, 20-25, 25-23, 16-14 while WG rolled over Ankeny Christian 25-9, 25-17, 25-14.
Action in the other side of the Region 5 bracket tonight has Coon Rapids-Bayard (21-8) at 15th-ranked Guthrie Center (15-7) and Earlham (16-6) at Adair-Casey (18-10). Those winners square off Friday at Guthrie Center. Semifinal winners advance to the Region 5 final next Tuesday, Nov. 1, at Adel.
EYE ON GJ: This was a real solid turnaround for the Hawkettes and showed how much they have improved throughout the season. The season opening loss to the Eagles was not really all that close—25-12, 12-25, 25-14, 25-21—although the Hawkettes showed some promise for the season to come with that 25-12 win in the second game. To head back to Burnside in the post-season and come away with a solid three-zip sweep says a lot for how far this young team (no seniors and just two juniors and the rest freshman and sophomores) has come in the 2011 season.
East Greene was a bright spot in an otherwise pretty dismal showing for the Rolling Hills Conference. Exira/Elk Horn-Kimballton was sidelined by CRB in a play-in round game last Monday night in Coon Rapids. CRB then dispatched of Glidden-Ralston, RH regular season runner-up with Adair-Casey, on Wednesday. Iowa Christian, winner of both the regular season and conference tournament titles, was beaten handily by Martensdale-St. Mary’s in Martensdale in its Region 4 opener, 25-12, 12-25, 25-14, 25-21.
Paton-Churdan, CAM and Ankeny Christian all lost their opening matches in Region 5 while the same fate befell Orient-Macksburg and Walnut in Region 3.
The only other RH team besides EG to post a win in regional opening round action was Adair-Casey, runner-up in the regular season standings and the conference tourney. The Bomberettes got by Grandview Park Baptist in a very tight match, 21-25, 25-23, 23-25, 25-15, 15-6. This was a pretty significant win, though, as GPB had advanced to the state tourney the last three years in addition to appearances in 2006 and 2002, the Defenders’ state championship season.
Jefferson-Scranton advanced in 2A with an easy win over Prairie Valley (Gowrie) in Jefferson, 25-13, 25-9, 25-19. The Rams head to Story City tonight for a quarterfinal contest against No. 15 Roland-Story, which rolled over Ogden, 25-13, 25-10, 25-13. Ogden is in its first season in the West Central Conference—East Greene’s former league—and found the going pretty rocky as the Bulldogs were 0-9 in conference play along the way to posting an 0-24 volleyball season.
The West Central as a conference fared much better, going 6-4 with one of the losses coming at the hands of a league member, Panorama, to another, Des Moines Christian, in 2A. Also losing in 2A were West Central Valley (Stuart) and Van Meter with all five 1A schools advancing: Guthrie Center, Coon Rapids-Bayard, Earlham, Madrid and Woodward-Granger.
If Jefferson-Scranton gets by the Norse tonight in Story City, the Rams would play in Jefferson in a 2A semifinal match Friday against Kuemper (Carroll) or East Sac County (Lake View).
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Tuesday, October 25, 2011
Wednesday, May 25, 2011
Class of 1961 Celebrates 50th Reunion
SECOND CLASS TO GRADUATE FROM EGHS
This year’s Alumni Reunion Weekend will mark the 50th anniversary of the East Greene Class of 1961, which will be honored at the annual alumni banquet on Saturday, May 28, at the high school gymnasium in Grand Junction.
Thirty-members strong, the East Greene Class of 1961 was just the second to graduate from the newly merged district that was formed the summer after their sophomore years at Grand Junction and Dana high schools, respectively.
Class members who donned their caps and gowns that year May for commencement exercises were Bob Baxter, Carol Blanshan, Jeanette Briggs, Donna Cody, Sandra Crouch, Diane Finger, Jolene Fogarty, Pat Frantz, Bill Glawe, Claudette Hamilton, Mike Heath, Priscilla Herrick, Sandra James, Joyce Kersey, Harry “Kip” Lepke Jr., Dick McComb, Charles Metzger, Mary Pedersen, John Reineman, Francis Riehl, Jerry Schrum, Judy Scott, Faye Sims, Pam Slock, Ruth Teagarden, Joan Thompson, Steve Tiffany, Gary Weaver, Roger Wessling and Meredith Young.
This particular class actually came from four different elementary/junior high schools over the course of their high school careers. Their freshman year at GJHS, 1957-58, brought together the 8th graders of 1956-57 from Grand Junction Consolidated School with the 1957 eighth graduates from St. Mary’s Academy in Grand Junction and the Beaver elementary school.
Dana students went from eighth grade right into high school in Dana their freshman and sophomore years, 1957-58 and 1958-59, but joined the Grand Junction high school students as the junior class in the new East Greene High School in the fall of 1959. The senior class that year, 1959-60, became the first graduating class of East Greene.
The East Greene Class of 1961 helped usher in the new decade with new school colors, mascot, fight song and all new uniforms for basketball, band and choir. It was a “green-and-white” universe as the purple of Dana and the blue of Grand Junction high schools soon faded into the past of the bygone 1950s.
It was an era of the bold new architecture, the Cold War, space exploration and an exciting new president and a glamorous First Lady, as President John F. Kennedy began campaigning for the presidency in the spring of the Class of ‘61’s junior year and was elected in the fall of their senior year.
That year will also be noted by the remarkable run of the East Greene Hawkettes on the basketball court and their senior leader, forward Pam Slock, and coach, Otis Roby. Expectations were high for the Hawkettes that year as they were coming off a successful 1959-60 campaign which saw them win the Greene County Tournament, tie for the championship of the Little Central Conference, and win the sectional tournament and advance to the districts.
Their co-champions in the Little Central—Grand Community of Boxholm—had made it to the state tournament the previous year and that team featured one of the top guards in the state, Rita Peterson. The same year, 1960, saw the Churdan Rockets boys basketball team advance to the State Class B tournament—the last year of the A-B state tourneys until resumption in 1967.
With the success of two Little Central teams in 1960, anticipation was high for the 1961 season. All eyes were on the East Greene girls team as they returned five of six starters from 1959-60, including Slock, who scored at 39.2 points per game in leading EG to a 17-3 mark as a junior, and three other senior veterans—Faye Sims in the forward court, Jolene Fogarty in the guard court, and reserve guard Ruth Teagarden. The only starter lost from 1960 was guard Lana Miller, who was named first-team all-conference. The other veterans back were juniors Sharon Frantz in the forward court and Helen Holz in the guard court.
Clearly the Hawkettes would be a force to reckon with as Slock had been named third team all-state by the Iowa Daily Press Association (IDPA) and fifth team all-state by the Des Moines Register as a junior.
The Hawkettes lived up to their billing and rolled through the season, winning the Little Central Conference with a perfect 10-0 mark and finishing the regular season unbeaten at 17-0. Slock led the state in scoring throughout the season with a 52.6 average and she broke many scoring records along the way, topped by a 78-point performance against arch rival Rippey.
She set and then re-set school scoring records throughout her high school career. She scored 78 in a game against Rippey late in the season, breaking her own school record of 65 points set on Jan. 6, 1961, against Churdan, an 85-67 win for the Hawkettes, and one of the last victories over Churdan or Paton-Churdan for nearly 10 years.
Slock had set the bar high for the school scoring record as a junior when she poured in 61 points against Paton in a sectional tournament game on the Hawkettes’ home court in Grand Junction.
East Greene was ranked in the Top 10 of all Iowa girls high school teams in 1960-61 and just missed a trip to the state tournament, losing by two points to No. 3 Cedar Valley—a powerhouse in the 1950s and early 60s in this part of the state—in the district final.
Slock, however, did win the sectional and district free throw championship and advanced on to state level where she won the State Free Throw Championship. She was named first team all-state at the end of the season by both the Des Moines Register and IDPA.
The boys basketball team had a solid season, finishing 9-10 and advancing to the sectional finals. EG finished 4-6 in the Little Central Conference and bowed in the first round of the county tourney with a loss to Churdan.
The cheerleaders that season were seniors Joan Thompson, Joyce Kersey and Meredith Young; and juniors Judy Adamson and Leita Hillman.
East Greene had another fine season in baseball as the team was 8-1 in the fall with the only loss coming to Jewell. EG ended the fall season with a 4-0 record in the Little Conference with 6 games to be played in the spring.
Class members were accorded a number of honors along their GJ and EG high school way, including having a candidate elected Homecoming Queen each of their sophomore, junior and senior years—Slock in 1959, Teagarden in 1960 and Thompson in 1961.
Slock and Donna Cody were senior members of the National Honor Society in1961 along with Holz, selected as a junior, and Judy Hamilton, a sophomore. Sims and Thompson were co-editors of the annual staff, now dubbed the Hawkeye, and Fogarty and Pat Frantz were co-editors of the newly renamed school paper, The Gazette, which continued as a weekly page in the Globe-Free Press from its forerunner, The Scoop of Grand Junction High School.
The “Globe” as is was known locally was the weekly Grand Junction paper with circulation in all the surrounding towns. It had pages set aside for The Rippey News and The Paton Portrait which featured news particular to those towns. Each page also had space that year for their own school news from the Rippey and Paton schools.
The successful music program of the Grand Junction schools continued unabated at East Greene under vocal music teacher Carson Griffith and instrumental music teacher Charles Radke, both young members of the former GJHS faculty. Four vocal students were selected to the All-State Chorus—Judy Thompson, Bob Morlan, John Goodrich and Teagarden. Janet Henderson, a junior, was selected to the All-State Band.
The boys glee had 29 members and accompanist Sarah Minium and the girls glee had 42 members. The mixed chorus was 70-voices strong (check this).
The East Greene band was resplendent in is new Kelley green uniforms with featured a white chord and tassels across the uniform’s front for concert band and a buttoned-on white shields with the green EG Hawk logo for marching band. The twirlers were also decked out in new duds—white satin uniforms and green accents.
The cheerleaders were probably the best representation for the new district that year as the new uniforms unveiled the previous season featured Kelly green sweaters with white pleated skirts. Across each sweater was a megaphone with the letters E-G-C-S-D, so fans far and wide would know that these girls were proudly leading the cheers of our of new East Greene Community School District!
This was at the height of the era where community school districts were being created all over the state so the lineup of teams, nicknames and colors was new from north to south and east to west. East Greene was a new name in central Iowa as were Central Webster, Prairie View, Grand, United, YJB, South Hamilton, Northeast Hamilton, Northwest Webster and Central Dallas, along with schools formed a few years earlier, like Cedar Valley, and newly merged community school districts that implemented the use of the hyphenating the town/school district names to re-christen themselves, as did Panora-Linden and Woodward-Granger.
These were prevalent throughout the state from Bridgewater-Fontanelle and Carson-Macedonia in the south to Bondurant-Farrar in the center and Havelock-Plover and Harris-Lake Park in the north. Newly created names that took a little from one and a little from another were prevalent too, such as Delwood of Elwood (Delmar and Elwood) in eastern Iowa and Dexfield of Redfield (Dexter and Redfield) in central Iowa.
Two years later, Rippey would also become part of East Greene, and two years beyond that, Paton officially joined with Churdan to form another hyphenated district, Paton-Churdan. The state of Iowa had decreed that by July 1, 1966, every school district had to include a high school, so sadly, our friends from Beaver officially became part of the Ogden Community School District, ending a three-year arrangement where three towns comprised East Greene—GJ, Dana and Beaver—and then a four-town arrangement when Rippey was added to the mix in 1962-63 and 1963-64, but by then Beaver students had already begun shifting to Ogden.
Beaver students had been attending high school at the Grand Junction since Beaver High School was closed at the end of World War II.
East Greene continued a great rivalry with Rippey those first of East Greene and the Class of 1961 was right in the middle of that three-year EG vs. Rippey run. Churdan was always a fierce rival of Grand Junction and that continued with East Greene. The Churdan games were always a high point on the sports calendar—especially in basketball.
This year’s Alumni Reunion Weekend will mark the 50th anniversary of the East Greene Class of 1961, which will be honored at the annual alumni banquet on Saturday, May 28, at the high school gymnasium in Grand Junction.
Thirty-members strong, the East Greene Class of 1961 was just the second to graduate from the newly merged district that was formed the summer after their sophomore years at Grand Junction and Dana high schools, respectively.
Class members who donned their caps and gowns that year May for commencement exercises were Bob Baxter, Carol Blanshan, Jeanette Briggs, Donna Cody, Sandra Crouch, Diane Finger, Jolene Fogarty, Pat Frantz, Bill Glawe, Claudette Hamilton, Mike Heath, Priscilla Herrick, Sandra James, Joyce Kersey, Harry “Kip” Lepke Jr., Dick McComb, Charles Metzger, Mary Pedersen, John Reineman, Francis Riehl, Jerry Schrum, Judy Scott, Faye Sims, Pam Slock, Ruth Teagarden, Joan Thompson, Steve Tiffany, Gary Weaver, Roger Wessling and Meredith Young.
This particular class actually came from four different elementary/junior high schools over the course of their high school careers. Their freshman year at GJHS, 1957-58, brought together the 8th graders of 1956-57 from Grand Junction Consolidated School with the 1957 eighth graduates from St. Mary’s Academy in Grand Junction and the Beaver elementary school.
Dana students went from eighth grade right into high school in Dana their freshman and sophomore years, 1957-58 and 1958-59, but joined the Grand Junction high school students as the junior class in the new East Greene High School in the fall of 1959. The senior class that year, 1959-60, became the first graduating class of East Greene.
The East Greene Class of 1961 helped usher in the new decade with new school colors, mascot, fight song and all new uniforms for basketball, band and choir. It was a “green-and-white” universe as the purple of Dana and the blue of Grand Junction high schools soon faded into the past of the bygone 1950s.
It was an era of the bold new architecture, the Cold War, space exploration and an exciting new president and a glamorous First Lady, as President John F. Kennedy began campaigning for the presidency in the spring of the Class of ‘61’s junior year and was elected in the fall of their senior year.
That year will also be noted by the remarkable run of the East Greene Hawkettes on the basketball court and their senior leader, forward Pam Slock, and coach, Otis Roby. Expectations were high for the Hawkettes that year as they were coming off a successful 1959-60 campaign which saw them win the Greene County Tournament, tie for the championship of the Little Central Conference, and win the sectional tournament and advance to the districts.
Their co-champions in the Little Central—Grand Community of Boxholm—had made it to the state tournament the previous year and that team featured one of the top guards in the state, Rita Peterson. The same year, 1960, saw the Churdan Rockets boys basketball team advance to the State Class B tournament—the last year of the A-B state tourneys until resumption in 1967.
With the success of two Little Central teams in 1960, anticipation was high for the 1961 season. All eyes were on the East Greene girls team as they returned five of six starters from 1959-60, including Slock, who scored at 39.2 points per game in leading EG to a 17-3 mark as a junior, and three other senior veterans—Faye Sims in the forward court, Jolene Fogarty in the guard court, and reserve guard Ruth Teagarden. The only starter lost from 1960 was guard Lana Miller, who was named first-team all-conference. The other veterans back were juniors Sharon Frantz in the forward court and Helen Holz in the guard court.
Clearly the Hawkettes would be a force to reckon with as Slock had been named third team all-state by the Iowa Daily Press Association (IDPA) and fifth team all-state by the Des Moines Register as a junior.
The Hawkettes lived up to their billing and rolled through the season, winning the Little Central Conference with a perfect 10-0 mark and finishing the regular season unbeaten at 17-0. Slock led the state in scoring throughout the season with a 52.6 average and she broke many scoring records along the way, topped by a 78-point performance against arch rival Rippey.
She set and then re-set school scoring records throughout her high school career. She scored 78 in a game against Rippey late in the season, breaking her own school record of 65 points set on Jan. 6, 1961, against Churdan, an 85-67 win for the Hawkettes, and one of the last victories over Churdan or Paton-Churdan for nearly 10 years.
Slock had set the bar high for the school scoring record as a junior when she poured in 61 points against Paton in a sectional tournament game on the Hawkettes’ home court in Grand Junction.
East Greene was ranked in the Top 10 of all Iowa girls high school teams in 1960-61 and just missed a trip to the state tournament, losing by two points to No. 3 Cedar Valley—a powerhouse in the 1950s and early 60s in this part of the state—in the district final.
Slock, however, did win the sectional and district free throw championship and advanced on to state level where she won the State Free Throw Championship. She was named first team all-state at the end of the season by both the Des Moines Register and IDPA.
The boys basketball team had a solid season, finishing 9-10 and advancing to the sectional finals. EG finished 4-6 in the Little Central Conference and bowed in the first round of the county tourney with a loss to Churdan.
The cheerleaders that season were seniors Joan Thompson, Joyce Kersey and Meredith Young; and juniors Judy Adamson and Leita Hillman.
East Greene had another fine season in baseball as the team was 8-1 in the fall with the only loss coming to Jewell. EG ended the fall season with a 4-0 record in the Little Conference with 6 games to be played in the spring.
Class members were accorded a number of honors along their GJ and EG high school way, including having a candidate elected Homecoming Queen each of their sophomore, junior and senior years—Slock in 1959, Teagarden in 1960 and Thompson in 1961.
Slock and Donna Cody were senior members of the National Honor Society in1961 along with Holz, selected as a junior, and Judy Hamilton, a sophomore. Sims and Thompson were co-editors of the annual staff, now dubbed the Hawkeye, and Fogarty and Pat Frantz were co-editors of the newly renamed school paper, The Gazette, which continued as a weekly page in the Globe-Free Press from its forerunner, The Scoop of Grand Junction High School.
The “Globe” as is was known locally was the weekly Grand Junction paper with circulation in all the surrounding towns. It had pages set aside for The Rippey News and The Paton Portrait which featured news particular to those towns. Each page also had space that year for their own school news from the Rippey and Paton schools.
The successful music program of the Grand Junction schools continued unabated at East Greene under vocal music teacher Carson Griffith and instrumental music teacher Charles Radke, both young members of the former GJHS faculty. Four vocal students were selected to the All-State Chorus—Judy Thompson, Bob Morlan, John Goodrich and Teagarden. Janet Henderson, a junior, was selected to the All-State Band.
The boys glee had 29 members and accompanist Sarah Minium and the girls glee had 42 members. The mixed chorus was 70-voices strong (check this).
The East Greene band was resplendent in is new Kelley green uniforms with featured a white chord and tassels across the uniform’s front for concert band and a buttoned-on white shields with the green EG Hawk logo for marching band. The twirlers were also decked out in new duds—white satin uniforms and green accents.
The cheerleaders were probably the best representation for the new district that year as the new uniforms unveiled the previous season featured Kelly green sweaters with white pleated skirts. Across each sweater was a megaphone with the letters E-G-C-S-D, so fans far and wide would know that these girls were proudly leading the cheers of our of new East Greene Community School District!
This was at the height of the era where community school districts were being created all over the state so the lineup of teams, nicknames and colors was new from north to south and east to west. East Greene was a new name in central Iowa as were Central Webster, Prairie View, Grand, United, YJB, South Hamilton, Northeast Hamilton, Northwest Webster and Central Dallas, along with schools formed a few years earlier, like Cedar Valley, and newly merged community school districts that implemented the use of the hyphenating the town/school district names to re-christen themselves, as did Panora-Linden and Woodward-Granger.
These were prevalent throughout the state from Bridgewater-Fontanelle and Carson-Macedonia in the south to Bondurant-Farrar in the center and Havelock-Plover and Harris-Lake Park in the north. Newly created names that took a little from one and a little from another were prevalent too, such as Delwood of Elwood (Delmar and Elwood) in eastern Iowa and Dexfield of Redfield (Dexter and Redfield) in central Iowa.
Two years later, Rippey would also become part of East Greene, and two years beyond that, Paton officially joined with Churdan to form another hyphenated district, Paton-Churdan. The state of Iowa had decreed that by July 1, 1966, every school district had to include a high school, so sadly, our friends from Beaver officially became part of the Ogden Community School District, ending a three-year arrangement where three towns comprised East Greene—GJ, Dana and Beaver—and then a four-town arrangement when Rippey was added to the mix in 1962-63 and 1963-64, but by then Beaver students had already begun shifting to Ogden.
Beaver students had been attending high school at the Grand Junction since Beaver High School was closed at the end of World War II.
East Greene continued a great rivalry with Rippey those first of East Greene and the Class of 1961 was right in the middle of that three-year EG vs. Rippey run. Churdan was always a fierce rival of Grand Junction and that continued with East Greene. The Churdan games were always a high point on the sports calendar—especially in basketball.
Friday, September 10, 2010
EG Beats PC; Ups Mark to 4-3
HAWKETTES NOW 1-1 IN ROLLING HILLS CONFERENCE
East Greene rolled over Paton-Churdan in three straight games on Thursday, Sept. 2, to up its season record to 4-3 and even its Rolling Hills Conference mark at 1-1.
The 25-10, 25-19, 25-16 win was the first head-to-head conference competition between EG and PC since 2007, when both teams were members of the West Central Conference. The two teams had met earlier this season at a tournament in Coon Rapids, where the Hawkettes prevailed in a best-of-three match, 21-15 and 21-17.
Last week’s conference tilt at Churdan saw the Hawkettes make a solid showing at the net with 18 kills in 66 attempts and 9 errors. Molly Neese, middle hitter, and Tia Lowe, outside hitter, led the charge. Neese was 5 of 21 with 2 errors and Lowe was 6 of 20 with 2 errors. Middle hitter Chelsi Wilkens had a strong showing with 4 kills in 13 attempts and two errors.
Katlynn Gannon led in digs with 15 and Neese had 12. The Hawkettes had some trouble at the service line however, connecting on just 65 of 75 for 60%, but they did score 10 aces. Jasmine Kinney went 27-28 with 4 aces and Neese was a perfect 18-18 with 3 aces.
EG opened conference play two nights earlier, Tuesday, Aug. 31, against Orient-Macksburg in Rippey. The visitors went home with the win, 18-25, 25-17, 26-25, 25-18.
The Hawkettes opened the season on a bright note on Thurs., Aug. 26, when they squeaked out a win over Southeast Webster-Grand (Burnside) in Rippey that was extended by extra points in the fifth and final set in the best-of-five-sets match. EG came back nicely after winning the first set and then dropping the next two. The final match tally was 25-20, 20-25, 24-26, 27-25, 19-17.
The following Saturday, EG went on the road to Coon Rapids where they went 2-2 on the day, finishing second in their pool play and advancing on to the semifinal round. Along with the win over PC, the Hawkettes downed Ankeny Christian 21-8, 21-11 and fell to Coon Rapids-Bayard, 21-12, 21-12 in pool play to advance to the semifinal round along with CRB, Adair-Casey and Iowa Christian Academy.
All matches in pool play and the championship round (semifinal and final matches) were best of three. The No. 1 team in each pool was matched against the No. 2 team of the opposite pool. Adair-Casey eliminated EG 25-23, 25-21 to advance to the championship match against Iowa Christian, a 25-22, 25-18 winner over Coon Rapids-Bayard. Adair-Casey went home with the trophy with a 19-25, 25-21, 15-11 win over Iowa Christian in the final.
EYE ON GJ SAYS: The tournament in Coon Rapids offers a good snapshot on the overall volleyball season and how it might unfold in the weeks ahead. CRB has had great success in past years, advancing to state and winning a West Central Conference crown, while EG entered the tournament as the defending champs but looking at many holes to fill in its lineup. CRB was ranked No. 10 in the preseason poll.
Iowa Christian returned four starters this year, led by junior Karlie Schut, an all-district and all-conference pick last year as a sophomore, so it was not that surprising when the Blazers upended CRB in the tournament semifinals. The Crusaders were coming off a 20-10 season and a fifth-place showing (5-4) in the West Central in 2009, a year beyond winning the league at 9-0 and then winning the regional to advance to state.
The big surprise though is Adair-Casey. The Bombers tied for third at 6-3 in the RH last year, but it was pretty much expected they would fall in line again this year behind ICA and especially the combined EHK/Exira squad, considering that Exira had won the league on its own last year with an unblemished mark.
Not the case, though, as AC took the title at the CRB tourney and is still undefeated on the season at 7-0, and tied for first place in the RH.
All three teams are making their mark on the area and state. AC is ranked No. 9 in Class 1A by the Iowa Girls High School Athletic Union while ICA is 14th and CRB is 15th.
The irony here is that in the last few years, the Rolling Hills has typically had a ranked team in volleyball and basketball (usually Exira) while the West Central has had several teams ranked in either 1A and 2A (often both) in basketball and softball, and one or two in volleyball — usually more than the RH has no matter what the sport. And now the first year that EG moves to the Rolling Hills and in its very first sports season there — two RH teams are ranked!....and just one from the West Central. Go figure. Unlucky break or spirited challenge?
Either way, coach Carly Tiffany is doing a great job of blending her five senior veterans with younger players Wilkens, a freshman, and sophomores Tori Lowe, Brittany Gunn and Liz Gunn.
After the CRB tournament, it’s clear that AC and ICA are the leading contenders for the conference crown. The real surprise is the new super-sized Elk Horn-Kimballton/Exira squad, which went winless in four matches in the CRB tournament in addition to dropping a non-conference match to CRB the following Monday. EHKE lost the 7th place match to Ankeny Christian to finish last in the eight-team CRB tournament. PC lost to St. Mary’s (Storm Lake) in the fifth place game, to finish the day 1-3 and in sixth place in the tourney.
EHKE has come back, however, to win its two first conference tilts over Walnut and Paton-Churdan and a non-conference match against AHST (Avoca).
Rolling Hills Conference Standings
(Records through Saturday, Sept. 4, Conf./NonConf.)
Adair-Casey 2-0, 7-0
Iowa Christian Academy 2-0, 5-2
Elk Horn-Kimballton/Exira 2-0, 3-5
East Greene 1-1, 4-3
CAM (Anita) 1-1, 1-1
Orient-Macksburg 1-1, 1-1
Ankeny Christian Academy 1-1, 2-4
Glidden-Ralston 0-2, 2-7
Paton-Churdan 0-2, 1-5
Walnut 0-2, 1-8
Sunday, February 28, 2010
Hawkettes Fall Short in Regional Semis
LOSE BY 4 POINTS TO RCL IN JEFFERSON
East Greene came close to playing for a berth in the state tournament, but a valiant effort against Rockwell City-Lytton came up short, 36-32, in a regional semifinals game in Jefferson on Friday, Feb. 19. The Hawkettes ended the season at 10-13 while RCL advanced to the Region 3 championship game against Lynnville-Sully in Ames.
The Hawkettes had advanced to the regional semifinal matchup after disposing of Glidden-Ralston in Glidden on Tuesday, 36-19 in the quarterfinal while RCL had upset Northeast Hamilton, ranked 12th in the state, 49-47, in Rockwell City. Northeast Hamilton came into the game with a 20-2 record and co-champions of the Iowa Star Conference.
The Hawkettes took command early in Glidden and were up 10-4 and 19-11 at the quarter and half breaks. EG poured it on in the third period, holding the Wildcats to just 2 points, and putting the game out of reach with a 32-13 lead at the end of the period. EG rested its starters the rest of the way in preparation for Friday’s game against RCL.
Malarie Gilley and Molly Neese proved to a formidable 1-2 punch for the Hawkettes. Gilley had 15 points, 9 rebounds, 7 blocks and 3 steals, and Neese had 11 points, 8 rebounds and 2 steals. Jessie Beaman added 6 points, and Tia Lowe and Katlynn Gannon each added 2.
The game was a defensive battle as evidenced by EG’s 24 turnovers and the 26 miscues by GR. Key to the Hawkettes defensive attack were Beaman’s 7 rebounds and 5 steals and Lowe’s 6 rebounds and 6 steals. The Hawkettes outrebounded GR 35-20 while limiting the Wildcats to just 8 of 46 field goals, a very chilly 17%. GR connected on 1 of 6 three-point attempts and was just 2-7 at the free throw line for 29%.
EG was good on 15 of 40 two-point shots for 38% and misfired on two three-point shots. The Hawkettes had some trouble at the free-throw line, dropping just 6 of 18 attempts, for 33%.
The semifinal game was originally scheduled to be played in Boone, but then was moved to Gilbert, and then when it became clear that Rockwell City and Grand Junction are at a considerable distance from Gilbert, the IGHSAU moved the game to Jefferson.
East Greene had fallen to RCL in a non-conference game in Rockwell City on Saturday, Jan. 30 by 13 points, 46-33, so the Hawkettes knew they had their work cut out for them in this rematch. In the first game, senior Brenna Lantz, an All-Twin Lakes Conference 1st team selection last year, and sophomore Bailey Dettman proved to be a powerful 1-2 force, scoring 14 and 10 points respectively with Lantz pulling down a big 14 rebounds.
The EG team that took the court in Jefferson against the Wildcats was much improved, this timing holding Dettman to just 6 points. Lantz scored 18 but was held to just 4 boards.
The Hawkette defense held RCL in check for three quarters, but the Wildcats put up 14points in the last period, although the outcome was still in doubt with 30 seconds left in the game. The victory was doubly sweet for the Wildcats, as coach Dave Birks picked up his 400th career win.
Birks’ victory total will stay at 400, at least until next season, as the Wildcats suffered a tough 49-47 loss to Lynnville-Sully in the regional final Monday night in Ames, ending their season at 13-10. Lynville-Sully (18-6) advanced to the state tournament and will take on Martensdale-St. Mary’s (25-1) tomorrow, March 1, in a 5 p.m. first-round game at Wells-Fargo Arena. Exira (23-0), champions of the Rolling Hills Conference, also qualified for the 1A State Tournament and will open the six-day event with a 10 a.m. tip-off tomorrow against Prince of Peace (17-7) of Clinton. Martensdale-St. Mary’s and Exira were ranked 1-2 in the final IGHSAU basketball poll for Class 1A.
Panorama, which won the West Central Conference with a perfect 18-0 record, saw its bid for a berth in the Class 2A state tournament upended by Audubon, 61-55, in the regional final at Guthrie Center. Panorama ended its season at 19-3, with two of those losses coming at the hands of Audubon and the other to Martensdale-St. Mary’s.
EYE ON GJ SAYS: By any measure, this was clearly a successful season for the EG Hawkettes. Sure, a 10-13 season could be indicative of a “losing” season--one that ended “under .500.” But EG plays in the super-tough West Central Conference against teams from such storied girls basketball towns as Guthrie Center and Coon Rapids and emerging basketball programs like West Central Valley and Des Moines Christian.
When the regular season ended this year, more than 130 “small school” teams entered into regional competition with the goal to secure one of the coveted 8 spots in the 1A state tournament in Des Moines in March.
The fact that of those 130-plus teams, East Greene was just one of 32 to make it to the regional semifinals speaks volumes about this team and the school district it represents. EG was by far the smallest school (based on enrollment) in the West Central Conference, but of the 10 teams, the Hawkettes--only 9 members strong across all four high school grades--finished 5th, a coveted “upper division” finish. This is especially commendable considering that EG was competing among some of the largest 2A schools and a highly ranked 1A private school (Des Moines Christian) that is not limited by geographic or social pressures that impact schools like East Greene.
Senior Malarie Gilley ended her EG basketball career as the all-time best player in East Greene’s five-player era with more than 1,000 rebounds, 1,000 points, and 300 blocks during her career wearing the Green and White. She takes her place among the all-time greats in both the five- and six-player eras who preceded her from EG, Dana, GJ and Rippey such as Pam Slock, Doris June Thornburgh, Margaret Burke, Kathryn Clark, Norma Hillman, Kathy Kennedy, Sherri Peterson, Marlene Rueter, Linda Borgeson, Annie Fagen, Jessie Fagen, and Stephanie Hillman.
Congratulations to all the Hawkettes and co-coaches Traci Beger and Bud Fagen on a terrific season!
WEST CENTRAL CONFERENCE FINAL 2010 STANDINGS
Panorama 18-0
West Central Valley 15-3
Des Moines Christian 15-3
Guthrie Center 11-6
East Greene 8-10
Van Meter 7-11
Woodward-Granger 7-11
Coon Rapids-Bayard 6-11
Earlham 2-16
Madrid 0-17
East Greene came close to playing for a berth in the state tournament, but a valiant effort against Rockwell City-Lytton came up short, 36-32, in a regional semifinals game in Jefferson on Friday, Feb. 19. The Hawkettes ended the season at 10-13 while RCL advanced to the Region 3 championship game against Lynnville-Sully in Ames.
The Hawkettes had advanced to the regional semifinal matchup after disposing of Glidden-Ralston in Glidden on Tuesday, 36-19 in the quarterfinal while RCL had upset Northeast Hamilton, ranked 12th in the state, 49-47, in Rockwell City. Northeast Hamilton came into the game with a 20-2 record and co-champions of the Iowa Star Conference.
The Hawkettes took command early in Glidden and were up 10-4 and 19-11 at the quarter and half breaks. EG poured it on in the third period, holding the Wildcats to just 2 points, and putting the game out of reach with a 32-13 lead at the end of the period. EG rested its starters the rest of the way in preparation for Friday’s game against RCL.
Malarie Gilley and Molly Neese proved to a formidable 1-2 punch for the Hawkettes. Gilley had 15 points, 9 rebounds, 7 blocks and 3 steals, and Neese had 11 points, 8 rebounds and 2 steals. Jessie Beaman added 6 points, and Tia Lowe and Katlynn Gannon each added 2.
The game was a defensive battle as evidenced by EG’s 24 turnovers and the 26 miscues by GR. Key to the Hawkettes defensive attack were Beaman’s 7 rebounds and 5 steals and Lowe’s 6 rebounds and 6 steals. The Hawkettes outrebounded GR 35-20 while limiting the Wildcats to just 8 of 46 field goals, a very chilly 17%. GR connected on 1 of 6 three-point attempts and was just 2-7 at the free throw line for 29%.
EG was good on 15 of 40 two-point shots for 38% and misfired on two three-point shots. The Hawkettes had some trouble at the free-throw line, dropping just 6 of 18 attempts, for 33%.
The semifinal game was originally scheduled to be played in Boone, but then was moved to Gilbert, and then when it became clear that Rockwell City and Grand Junction are at a considerable distance from Gilbert, the IGHSAU moved the game to Jefferson.
East Greene had fallen to RCL in a non-conference game in Rockwell City on Saturday, Jan. 30 by 13 points, 46-33, so the Hawkettes knew they had their work cut out for them in this rematch. In the first game, senior Brenna Lantz, an All-Twin Lakes Conference 1st team selection last year, and sophomore Bailey Dettman proved to be a powerful 1-2 force, scoring 14 and 10 points respectively with Lantz pulling down a big 14 rebounds.
The EG team that took the court in Jefferson against the Wildcats was much improved, this timing holding Dettman to just 6 points. Lantz scored 18 but was held to just 4 boards.
The Hawkette defense held RCL in check for three quarters, but the Wildcats put up 14points in the last period, although the outcome was still in doubt with 30 seconds left in the game. The victory was doubly sweet for the Wildcats, as coach Dave Birks picked up his 400th career win.
Birks’ victory total will stay at 400, at least until next season, as the Wildcats suffered a tough 49-47 loss to Lynnville-Sully in the regional final Monday night in Ames, ending their season at 13-10. Lynville-Sully (18-6) advanced to the state tournament and will take on Martensdale-St. Mary’s (25-1) tomorrow, March 1, in a 5 p.m. first-round game at Wells-Fargo Arena. Exira (23-0), champions of the Rolling Hills Conference, also qualified for the 1A State Tournament and will open the six-day event with a 10 a.m. tip-off tomorrow against Prince of Peace (17-7) of Clinton. Martensdale-St. Mary’s and Exira were ranked 1-2 in the final IGHSAU basketball poll for Class 1A.
Panorama, which won the West Central Conference with a perfect 18-0 record, saw its bid for a berth in the Class 2A state tournament upended by Audubon, 61-55, in the regional final at Guthrie Center. Panorama ended its season at 19-3, with two of those losses coming at the hands of Audubon and the other to Martensdale-St. Mary’s.
EYE ON GJ SAYS: By any measure, this was clearly a successful season for the EG Hawkettes. Sure, a 10-13 season could be indicative of a “losing” season--one that ended “under .500.” But EG plays in the super-tough West Central Conference against teams from such storied girls basketball towns as Guthrie Center and Coon Rapids and emerging basketball programs like West Central Valley and Des Moines Christian.
When the regular season ended this year, more than 130 “small school” teams entered into regional competition with the goal to secure one of the coveted 8 spots in the 1A state tournament in Des Moines in March.
The fact that of those 130-plus teams, East Greene was just one of 32 to make it to the regional semifinals speaks volumes about this team and the school district it represents. EG was by far the smallest school (based on enrollment) in the West Central Conference, but of the 10 teams, the Hawkettes--only 9 members strong across all four high school grades--finished 5th, a coveted “upper division” finish. This is especially commendable considering that EG was competing among some of the largest 2A schools and a highly ranked 1A private school (Des Moines Christian) that is not limited by geographic or social pressures that impact schools like East Greene.
Senior Malarie Gilley ended her EG basketball career as the all-time best player in East Greene’s five-player era with more than 1,000 rebounds, 1,000 points, and 300 blocks during her career wearing the Green and White. She takes her place among the all-time greats in both the five- and six-player eras who preceded her from EG, Dana, GJ and Rippey such as Pam Slock, Doris June Thornburgh, Margaret Burke, Kathryn Clark, Norma Hillman, Kathy Kennedy, Sherri Peterson, Marlene Rueter, Linda Borgeson, Annie Fagen, Jessie Fagen, and Stephanie Hillman.
Congratulations to all the Hawkettes and co-coaches Traci Beger and Bud Fagen on a terrific season!
WEST CENTRAL CONFERENCE FINAL 2010 STANDINGS
Panorama 18-0
West Central Valley 15-3
Des Moines Christian 15-3
Guthrie Center 11-6
East Greene 8-10
Van Meter 7-11
Woodward-Granger 7-11
Coon Rapids-Bayard 6-11
Earlham 2-16
Madrid 0-17
Friday, February 12, 2010
Hawkettes Win Regional Opener
EG DOWNS MADRID, 44-30
After dropping four games to close the regular season, East Greene got back on the winning track last night with a 44-30 win over Madrid in a first-round regional game at Madrid.
The Hawkettes take on Glidden-Ralston at 7 p.m. Tuesday, Feb. 16, in a key quarterfinal matchup in Glidden. GR advanced with a win over Paton-Churdan last night in Glidden, 49-32. The Wildcats advance with a 4-15 season record while EG is now 9-12.
The winner of Tuesday's game faces the winner of the Rockwell City-Lytton vs. Northeast Hamilton tilt in a regional semifinal game on Friday, Feb. 19 in Boone.
After dropping four games to close the regular season, East Greene got back on the winning track last night with a 44-30 win over Madrid in a first-round regional game at Madrid.
The Hawkettes take on Glidden-Ralston at 7 p.m. Tuesday, Feb. 16, in a key quarterfinal matchup in Glidden. GR advanced with a win over Paton-Churdan last night in Glidden, 49-32. The Wildcats advance with a 4-15 season record while EG is now 9-12.
The winner of Tuesday's game faces the winner of the Rockwell City-Lytton vs. Northeast Hamilton tilt in a regional semifinal game on Friday, Feb. 19 in Boone.
Tuesday, October 27, 2009
HAWKETTES ADVANCE, NOW 14-6
EG Faces No. 12 Southern Cal in Regional VB Action
A win over Madrid in the second round of regional volleyball action last Wednesday has put EG into the quarterfinal round tonight in Lake City, where the Hawkettes will square off against Southern Cal, the 12th ranked team in Class 1A.
EG’s 25-17, 25-16, 25-16 regional win at Madrid on Wednesday was the its second straight win over the Tigerettes. EG had swept Madrid in three straight games the previous Thursday in Rippey in both teams’ final regular season match, 25-16, 25-16, 25-13. That capped off a busy week, as EG had downed Panorama in three straight on Tuesday, following a 2-2 showing in 4 matches at a tournament in Walnut on Saturday.
EG has now won 5 of its last 7 matches. The win over Madrid in Rippey moved the Hawkettes to 6-3 in the final West Central Conference standings, good for fourth place. Last week’s win over Madrid in the regionals upped EG’s overall season mark to 14-6.
Southern Cal brings a 21-0 record into tonight’s match. The Mustangs swept Paton-Churdan 25-16, 25-6, 26-24 in regional action at Lake City last Wednesday.
The winner of tonight’s EG-SoCal match will take on the winner of Ar-We-Va vs. West Harrison in the semifinal round Friday at Denison. The opposite side of the bracket has Exira, ranked seventh in the state, taking on Coon Rapids-Bayard in Coon Rapids. The winner of that match moves onto the other Region 3 semifinal on Friday in Woodbine against the winner of tonight’s Woodbine and St. Albert’s match in Council Bluffs.
The semifinal winners will face off next Tuesday in Denison in the regional final. The winner moves on to the State Tournament in Cedar Rapids.
EYE ON GJ SAYS: This is one of the best--if not the best--volleyball season in EG school history. Coach Carly Tiffany has the Hawkettes firing on all cylinders, as they beat 6 of 9 competitors in the West Central Conference in three-game sweeps (best-of-five game matches), and lost by just two points in the fifth game of a five-game match against league champion Guthrie Center, the closest any league team came to the Tigerettes. The Hawkettes also beat CRB--last year’s West Central champion and a 1A state qualifier--twice this season, the first win coming in the championship of a tournament hosted by CRB.
EG will meet a seasoned team in Southern Cal. Like the Hawkettes, SoCal plays in a league comprised of both 1A and 2A teams, where they finished second at 5-1, losing only to East Sac, a 2A team, but coming back to win the conference tournament. The Mustangs made it to State two years ago and just lost out on a trip last year, falling to Schaller-Crestland in the region finals.
Southern Cal and Exira (19-5), the Rolling Hills champion, are clearly the favorites in Region 3.
In addition to CRB in the opposite bracket in Region 3, the other top teams in the West Central are still in action heading into the quarterfinal round tonight. Each of the other top three teams is competing in different classes and regions, so conceivably the West Central could send four teams to the state tournament in 1A and 2A. Des Moines Christian (22-3), which finished third in the conference at 7-2, hosts Iowa Christian (14-10), the runner-up in the Rolling Hills Conference at 7-2 just behind Exira, with an unblemished 9-0 mark, in Region 4 in 1A. The winner advances to the semifinal round against either Twin Cedars or North Mahaska, also at Des Moines Christian. DMC had been ranked in Class 1A earlier this month, falling out of the Top 15 rankings, just before the final poll was released on Oct. 15.
In 2A, league champ Guthrie Center (17-6) and runner-up Woodward-Granger (19-7) are still in action, but both face tough opponents in the quarterfinal round tonight. Guthrie Center travels to Manning to take on 9th-ranked IKM-Manning (28-2) while Woodward-Granger also faces a state ranked opponent, No. 15, Gilbert (17-6), but has the home court advantage as the match will be played in Woodward. If Guthrie wins, it moves on to face either Nodaway Valley or Griswold in the Region 2 semifinal match, also at Manning. WG would advance to the next round in Eldora in Region 3 against the winner of a matchp between Grundy Center and Dike-New Hartford, a longtime state volleyball power and the No. 3 team in 2A with a 38-3 season record.
A win over Madrid in the second round of regional volleyball action last Wednesday has put EG into the quarterfinal round tonight in Lake City, where the Hawkettes will square off against Southern Cal, the 12th ranked team in Class 1A.
EG’s 25-17, 25-16, 25-16 regional win at Madrid on Wednesday was the its second straight win over the Tigerettes. EG had swept Madrid in three straight games the previous Thursday in Rippey in both teams’ final regular season match, 25-16, 25-16, 25-13. That capped off a busy week, as EG had downed Panorama in three straight on Tuesday, following a 2-2 showing in 4 matches at a tournament in Walnut on Saturday.
EG has now won 5 of its last 7 matches. The win over Madrid in Rippey moved the Hawkettes to 6-3 in the final West Central Conference standings, good for fourth place. Last week’s win over Madrid in the regionals upped EG’s overall season mark to 14-6.
Southern Cal brings a 21-0 record into tonight’s match. The Mustangs swept Paton-Churdan 25-16, 25-6, 26-24 in regional action at Lake City last Wednesday.
The winner of tonight’s EG-SoCal match will take on the winner of Ar-We-Va vs. West Harrison in the semifinal round Friday at Denison. The opposite side of the bracket has Exira, ranked seventh in the state, taking on Coon Rapids-Bayard in Coon Rapids. The winner of that match moves onto the other Region 3 semifinal on Friday in Woodbine against the winner of tonight’s Woodbine and St. Albert’s match in Council Bluffs.
The semifinal winners will face off next Tuesday in Denison in the regional final. The winner moves on to the State Tournament in Cedar Rapids.
EYE ON GJ SAYS: This is one of the best--if not the best--volleyball season in EG school history. Coach Carly Tiffany has the Hawkettes firing on all cylinders, as they beat 6 of 9 competitors in the West Central Conference in three-game sweeps (best-of-five game matches), and lost by just two points in the fifth game of a five-game match against league champion Guthrie Center, the closest any league team came to the Tigerettes. The Hawkettes also beat CRB--last year’s West Central champion and a 1A state qualifier--twice this season, the first win coming in the championship of a tournament hosted by CRB.
EG will meet a seasoned team in Southern Cal. Like the Hawkettes, SoCal plays in a league comprised of both 1A and 2A teams, where they finished second at 5-1, losing only to East Sac, a 2A team, but coming back to win the conference tournament. The Mustangs made it to State two years ago and just lost out on a trip last year, falling to Schaller-Crestland in the region finals.
Southern Cal and Exira (19-5), the Rolling Hills champion, are clearly the favorites in Region 3.
In addition to CRB in the opposite bracket in Region 3, the other top teams in the West Central are still in action heading into the quarterfinal round tonight. Each of the other top three teams is competing in different classes and regions, so conceivably the West Central could send four teams to the state tournament in 1A and 2A. Des Moines Christian (22-3), which finished third in the conference at 7-2, hosts Iowa Christian (14-10), the runner-up in the Rolling Hills Conference at 7-2 just behind Exira, with an unblemished 9-0 mark, in Region 4 in 1A. The winner advances to the semifinal round against either Twin Cedars or North Mahaska, also at Des Moines Christian. DMC had been ranked in Class 1A earlier this month, falling out of the Top 15 rankings, just before the final poll was released on Oct. 15.
In 2A, league champ Guthrie Center (17-6) and runner-up Woodward-Granger (19-7) are still in action, but both face tough opponents in the quarterfinal round tonight. Guthrie Center travels to Manning to take on 9th-ranked IKM-Manning (28-2) while Woodward-Granger also faces a state ranked opponent, No. 15, Gilbert (17-6), but has the home court advantage as the match will be played in Woodward. If Guthrie wins, it moves on to face either Nodaway Valley or Griswold in the Region 2 semifinal match, also at Manning. WG would advance to the next round in Eldora in Region 3 against the winner of a matchp between Grundy Center and Dike-New Hartford, a longtime state volleyball power and the No. 3 team in 2A with a 38-3 season record.
Wednesday, July 8, 2009
TOURNEY ACTION
Hawkettes Meet CRB in Regional
East Greene fell to Glidden-Ralston in its final regular season softball game, 10-0, in 5 innings at Glidden Monday night.
Wildcat ace Hallie Schon limited the Hawkettes to 1 hit while striking out 8 and walking just one. Ashley Thorpe took the loss, giving up 5 hits and 10 walks.
East Greene ended the regular season 4-18 and 2-16 in the West Central Conference. GR beat Panorama in a make-up game last night to end its last year in the conference as runner-up to Earlham with a 13-5 record.
West Central Conference
FINAL STANDINGS
Earlham 15-3
Glidden-Ralston 13-5
Des Moines Christian 10-7
Madrid 10-7
Van Meter 9-8
Guthrie Center 8-10
Panorama 8-10
West Central Valley 7-10
Coon Rapids-Bayard 5-11
East Greene 2-16
REGIONAL PREVIEW: EG heads to Coon Rapids tonight to take on Coon Rapids-Bayard in opening round regional Class 1A action. EG dropped a close game to the Crusaders 12-11 on its last trip to Coon Rapids on June 9. Last week, the two teams tangled again in Grand Junction, but CRB got the better of the Hawkettes, 12-3.
It’s a new season tonight though and the Hawkettes will be out to redeem their earlier losses. CRB finished just ahead of EG in the conference race at 5-11 but the Crusaders fared better in non-conference play as their overall season mark is 16-12.
EG and CRB face off at 7:30 p.m. as the nightcap in a doubleheader. Exira faces Adair-Casey in the first game at 6 p.m. Those two teams are in the lower half of the Coon Rapids bracket and the winner will advance to play the winner of the Earlham-CAM game tonight in Anita in the quarterfinals on Friday, also in Anita. Both of those games are at 7 p.m.
The EG-CRB winner takes on Glidden-Ralston, which got a first round bye, in a quarterfinal game at Coon Rapids, also on Friday. Winners of the games in Anita and Coon Rapids will meet in the regional semifinals on Monday at 7 p.m in Coon Rapids. The winner of that game will face the winner of the lower half of the Region 4 bracket in the final in Ames next Wednesday (June 15) at 7 p.m. with winner advancing to the 1A State Tournament in Fort Dodge.
EYE ON GJ SAYS: Earlham and Glidden-Ralston look to have the upper hand in the Coon Rapids half of the bracket. GR ended the season at 22-7 and finished just behind Earlham in the always tough West Central. GR was ranked as high as seventh earlier this season. Earlham (26-8) should have an easy time in its half of the CR bracket opposite three teams from the Rolling Hills, which is not as competitive as the West Central which has a mix of 1A and 2A teams. The RH is all 1A teams. Exira won the RH at 9-1, just ahead of CAM and Orient-Macksburg, both at 7-3. Exira is 11-6 overall, CAM is 12-8 and Adair-Casey is 2-22.
West Central opponents Madrid and Van Meter are the in the lower half of the regional bracket. Madrid (15-17) opens at home against Colo-Nesco while Van Meter (9-19) hosts Grandview Park Baptist. The winners of those two games will face off Friday at Madrid, with the winner advancing to the semifinal round against the winner of the Sully quarterfinal game. Lynnville-Sully will be the favorite, hosting the first three rounds on its home diamond. Lynnville-Sully hosts BGM (Brooklyn) in round one and the winner will take on the GMG (Garwin)-North Tama (Traer) winner on Friday in Sully. Lynnville-Sully (20-7) is ranked 15th in Class 1A.
In Class 2A, conference opponents Des Moines Christian (13-19) and West Central Valley (15-12) are in the upper bracket of Region 8 and Panorama and Guthrie Center are in the region’s lower bracket. They all face stiff competition. DMC takes on Bondurant-Farrar (28-3), the No. 4 ranked team in Class 2A, Thursday night in Bondurant. West Central Valley travels to Greenfield to face Nodaway Valley (23-9) on its home diamond. The winner of those two games will advance to the quarterfinal at Bondurant on Friday. The winner Friday advances to the upper bracket semifinal in Truro, facing either Wayne (Corydon), Mount Ayr, Central Decatur or I-35 (Truro).
Panorama (13-16) travels to Alleman on Thursday to face North Polk (26-6), which tied for the Heart of Iowa-Large title with Bondurant-Farrar at 17-1. North Polk, ranked No. 3 in Class 2A, won the 2A state championship last year over Solon 4-2 and finished the season 40-4. North Polk has made 15 state tournament appearances and has been to state the last four seasons straight, also winning a title in 2006 and finishing third in 2007.
Guthrie Center takes on another area softball power, Woodward-Granger (20-9) at Woodward on Thursday. The winner advances to the quarterfinal in Alleman on Friday against the North Polk-Panorama winner. The Friday winner moves on to the semifinal game in Greenfield on Monday. Teams on the opposite side of the Greenfield (lower) bracket are Shenandoah, Clarinda, Griswold and Red Oak. The regional final is Wednesday, July 15, at Adel.
Also in Class 2A on Thursday, Jefferson-Scranton (14-13) opens regional play at Farnhamville against Prairie Valley (14-16) while Ogden (14-13) hosts Gilbert (5-15). Class 3A opens regional action on Saturday. Perry (1-27) travels to Carroll and Boone (21-8) hosts Nevada. The winners advance to the semifinal round at Boone on Monday with the regional final on Wednesday at Dallas Center.
East Greene fell to Glidden-Ralston in its final regular season softball game, 10-0, in 5 innings at Glidden Monday night.
Wildcat ace Hallie Schon limited the Hawkettes to 1 hit while striking out 8 and walking just one. Ashley Thorpe took the loss, giving up 5 hits and 10 walks.
East Greene ended the regular season 4-18 and 2-16 in the West Central Conference. GR beat Panorama in a make-up game last night to end its last year in the conference as runner-up to Earlham with a 13-5 record.
West Central Conference
FINAL STANDINGS
Earlham 15-3
Glidden-Ralston 13-5
Des Moines Christian 10-7
Madrid 10-7
Van Meter 9-8
Guthrie Center 8-10
Panorama 8-10
West Central Valley 7-10
Coon Rapids-Bayard 5-11
East Greene 2-16
REGIONAL PREVIEW: EG heads to Coon Rapids tonight to take on Coon Rapids-Bayard in opening round regional Class 1A action. EG dropped a close game to the Crusaders 12-11 on its last trip to Coon Rapids on June 9. Last week, the two teams tangled again in Grand Junction, but CRB got the better of the Hawkettes, 12-3.
It’s a new season tonight though and the Hawkettes will be out to redeem their earlier losses. CRB finished just ahead of EG in the conference race at 5-11 but the Crusaders fared better in non-conference play as their overall season mark is 16-12.
EG and CRB face off at 7:30 p.m. as the nightcap in a doubleheader. Exira faces Adair-Casey in the first game at 6 p.m. Those two teams are in the lower half of the Coon Rapids bracket and the winner will advance to play the winner of the Earlham-CAM game tonight in Anita in the quarterfinals on Friday, also in Anita. Both of those games are at 7 p.m.
The EG-CRB winner takes on Glidden-Ralston, which got a first round bye, in a quarterfinal game at Coon Rapids, also on Friday. Winners of the games in Anita and Coon Rapids will meet in the regional semifinals on Monday at 7 p.m in Coon Rapids. The winner of that game will face the winner of the lower half of the Region 4 bracket in the final in Ames next Wednesday (June 15) at 7 p.m. with winner advancing to the 1A State Tournament in Fort Dodge.
EYE ON GJ SAYS: Earlham and Glidden-Ralston look to have the upper hand in the Coon Rapids half of the bracket. GR ended the season at 22-7 and finished just behind Earlham in the always tough West Central. GR was ranked as high as seventh earlier this season. Earlham (26-8) should have an easy time in its half of the CR bracket opposite three teams from the Rolling Hills, which is not as competitive as the West Central which has a mix of 1A and 2A teams. The RH is all 1A teams. Exira won the RH at 9-1, just ahead of CAM and Orient-Macksburg, both at 7-3. Exira is 11-6 overall, CAM is 12-8 and Adair-Casey is 2-22.
West Central opponents Madrid and Van Meter are the in the lower half of the regional bracket. Madrid (15-17) opens at home against Colo-Nesco while Van Meter (9-19) hosts Grandview Park Baptist. The winners of those two games will face off Friday at Madrid, with the winner advancing to the semifinal round against the winner of the Sully quarterfinal game. Lynnville-Sully will be the favorite, hosting the first three rounds on its home diamond. Lynnville-Sully hosts BGM (Brooklyn) in round one and the winner will take on the GMG (Garwin)-North Tama (Traer) winner on Friday in Sully. Lynnville-Sully (20-7) is ranked 15th in Class 1A.
In Class 2A, conference opponents Des Moines Christian (13-19) and West Central Valley (15-12) are in the upper bracket of Region 8 and Panorama and Guthrie Center are in the region’s lower bracket. They all face stiff competition. DMC takes on Bondurant-Farrar (28-3), the No. 4 ranked team in Class 2A, Thursday night in Bondurant. West Central Valley travels to Greenfield to face Nodaway Valley (23-9) on its home diamond. The winner of those two games will advance to the quarterfinal at Bondurant on Friday. The winner Friday advances to the upper bracket semifinal in Truro, facing either Wayne (Corydon), Mount Ayr, Central Decatur or I-35 (Truro).
Panorama (13-16) travels to Alleman on Thursday to face North Polk (26-6), which tied for the Heart of Iowa-Large title with Bondurant-Farrar at 17-1. North Polk, ranked No. 3 in Class 2A, won the 2A state championship last year over Solon 4-2 and finished the season 40-4. North Polk has made 15 state tournament appearances and has been to state the last four seasons straight, also winning a title in 2006 and finishing third in 2007.
Guthrie Center takes on another area softball power, Woodward-Granger (20-9) at Woodward on Thursday. The winner advances to the quarterfinal in Alleman on Friday against the North Polk-Panorama winner. The Friday winner moves on to the semifinal game in Greenfield on Monday. Teams on the opposite side of the Greenfield (lower) bracket are Shenandoah, Clarinda, Griswold and Red Oak. The regional final is Wednesday, July 15, at Adel.
Also in Class 2A on Thursday, Jefferson-Scranton (14-13) opens regional play at Farnhamville against Prairie Valley (14-16) while Ogden (14-13) hosts Gilbert (5-15). Class 3A opens regional action on Saturday. Perry (1-27) travels to Carroll and Boone (21-8) hosts Nevada. The winners advance to the semifinal round at Boone on Monday with the regional final on Wednesday at Dallas Center.
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