Stories from Monday, June 16, 2014

In a back-and-forth contest Tuesday evening, the Okoboji softball team earned a narrow victory over visiting Graettinger-Terril/Ruthven-Ayrshire by scoring a pair late to best the Titans 8-7. G-T/R-A got out to a hot start, scoring two runs in the bottom half of the first and three more in the second to hold a 5-1 advantage after two...

Harris-Lake Park needed just six innings to earn two wins Wednesday over visiting Clay Central-Everly, as the Wolves routed the Mavericks 19-1 and 27-0 in doubleheader action. In game one, the Mavericks actually got out to an early 1-0 lead in the top half of the first before H-LP answered with three in the bottom half of the inning to hold a 3-1 lead...

Despite totaling six hits against Manson-Northwest Webster on Thursday, the Graettinger-Terril/Ruthven-Ayrshire baseball team could not push a run across, as the Titans were blanked by their hosts 10-0. Tyler Hauge was the losing pitcher. He allowed five runs (three earned) on one hit and three walks while striking out three in 1 2/3 innings...

Roughly 48 hours after securing a one-run victory over visiting Graettinger-Terril/-Ruthven-Ayrshire, the Okoboji softball team took its death-defying act on the road, earning a 4-3 win over George-Little Rock/Central Lyon on Thursday. The Pioneers got off to an early 3-0 start after two innings before G-LR/CL knotted the score with three of its own in the bottom half of the fourth...

The Harris-Lake Park softball team watched a one-run lead slip away in the middle innings Thursday night, as host Hinton scored seven unanswered to earn a 8-2 victory over the Wolves. Hinton got on top early, scoring a run in the bottom half of the first, but the Wolves plated two in the top of the second to hold a 2-1 advantage...

Graettinger-Terril/Ruthven-Ayrshire came up all zeros Friday night, as the Titans baseball team ended up on the wrong end of a perfect game by West Bend-Mallard pitcher Jason Zinnel. Zinnel allowed no hits, no runs and no walks while striking out eight G-T/R-A batters in five innings of a 10-0 win...

The Graettinger-Terril/Ruthven-Ayrshire softball team let a late lead slip Friday, as West Bend-Mallard scored two runs in the seventh to win 5-4 at home. The Wolverines took an early 2-0 lead after one, but the Titans slowly came back, scoring one in the second before plating two in the third to take a 3-2 lead...

Harris-Lake Park received contributions from up and down the lineup Friday night, as the Wolves scored eight runs on 13 hits in an 8-1 rout of Unity Christian. Eight H-LP batters recorded at least one hit and five had multi-hit performances in a dominant outing, including a 2-4 performance by Katherin Ihnen who recorded a double and a team-high three RBIs...

In a road contest with Unity Christian on Friday, the Harris-Lake Park baseball team fell to the Knights 13-3. Unity scored early and often, putting up three runs in the first, four in the third and two in the fourth to take a 9-0 lead after four. H-LP answered with two in the fifth and one in the sixth, but the Knights scored four more in the bottom half of the sixth to take the 10-run victory...