After North Fayette Valley scored a run in the first inning of game two against Turkey Valley Friday, five pitches into the bottom half of the inning the Trojans had a 2-1 lead, thanks to a triple by Jaedyn Winter and home run by Emily Busta.
Not that the softball isn’t important, but it’s not the only reason New Hampton coach Jack Seelhammer takes his team to the Linn-Mar Invitational each year.
The number of times Braydon Fisher knocked a foul ball out at Mikkelson Park during his final at-bat of the night in the sixth inning Friday were estimated between 12 and 15.
Turkey Valley not only beat the rain on Wednesday night, the Trojans’ softball team did it in style as they pound out 35 hits and scored 45 runs in a doubleheader sweep of Postville.
After packing up and leaving Postville Monday — with a 9-2 lead over the Pirates in the fourth inning — Turkey Valley dodged the raindrops Tuesday long enough to travel to Oelwein.
New Hampton junior Max Babcock and Chickasaw coach Cory McDonald were on the same page when they were asked about New Hampton’s 8-3 win over Crestwood on Monday.
Levi Miller isn’t going to lie, he was a bundle of nerves as his Nashua-Plainfield baseball team clung to a 4-3 lead last Wednesday against Forest City.
New Hampton’s girls picked up relatively easy Northeast Iowa Conference wins last Wednesday and Thursday, but this Wednesday and Thursday will be a different story.
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.
