The seniors on the New Hampton baseball team have literally played hundreds of games since they first became teammates on a travel team back when they were elementary school students.

New Hampton used three different pitchers to hold their collective opponents to a total of six runs in 21 innings of play during the Chickasaw Softball Invitational Saturday, and while a good defense went a long way toward winning their home tourn

Even though Turkey Valley lost their first softball conference games of the season Monday to MFL, the Trojan girls hit the ball well in the doubleheader.
But not as well as they did against Decorah Tuesday.

Remember the old commercials “this is what your brain looks like on drugs?”
Turkey Valley Dan Stepan used a similar approach when he sent box scores on the Trojan baseball team’s early-week games.

Paige Wisner may have summed up the last three games for the New Hampton softball team with her statement.

As New Hampton coach Cory McDonald talked about Monday’s 9-4 win over Charles City on Monday night, he used the words “Chickasaw baseball” on numerous occasions.
And just what it is that?

As Hannah Holthaus prepared for Tuesday night’s game against New Hampton, the Nashua-Plainfield coach was asked about the extended run of “off days.”

The annual New Hampton Invitational will definitely have a local feel to it this year, as in addition to the host Chickasaws, Turkey Valley and Nashua-Plainfield are in the field for the tournament that will be held at Mikkelson Park on Saturday.<

At the beginning of the season, Turkey Valley coach Dan Stepan looked for Kee High to be not only a team to beat in the Upper Iowa Conference, but a top contender in Class 1A.

Again, the pressure was on for the Turkey Valley softball team.

Aden Zwanziger, Noah Fye and Josh Fenske have been around the proverbial block a time or two so no one had to tell them that Friday’s doubleheader at Oelwein was, to put it simply, huge.

Jack Seelhammer wasn’t going to pull any punches; his New Hampton softball team faced a must-win situation on Thursday night.

Even before Jordan Holthaus started shooting at the state meet Saturday, he was taking deep breaths. The kind that someone takes that’s trying to get rid of some anxiety. 

The state coed golf tournament prides itself on being a relaxed affair, but just after “making the turn” on Tuesday, New Hampton’s Ryan Anderson and Allison Nuss decided maybe they were too relaxed.

Turkey Valley scored a run in each of the middle three innings in game one at Starmont Monday and with good pitching, that was more than enough to win the first game of the doubleheader, 3-0.