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By JAKE RYDERMid-America Publishing-

DIKE – The 2A No. 4 Wolver-ines were dealt a stunning shut-out by the Hawks in Dike on Tuesday, ending D-NH’s sea-son at 27-5.

“We didn’t get the hit when we needed to,” D-NH head coach Sean Leonard said. “Their pitcher threw extreme-ly well, was ahead of almost everybody. … Our defense was good, we had a couple of errors that didn’t hurt us, it really just came down to not getting the big hit.”

Zeke Balderas limited D-NH to three hits in six innings as the starter for South Hamilton and Cole Berg kept the Wol-verines off the board in the sev-enth inning, ending the game with a strikeout when D-NH had runners on first and third. Balderas also escaped a bas-es-loaded jam in the sixth inning. In all, D-NH stranded nine runners on base.

Leonard said the loss did not detract from a strong two-year run for the Wolverines, with this summer’s senior class tak-ing the mantle to run an overall record of 57-9 in the last two seasons.

Tr e n t J o h n s o n , R h e t t Ehmen, Nick Durnin, Ethan Weichers, Ethan Huntington, Clayton Mapel and Collin Vanderlind all played their final games in the Dike-New Hart-ford blue on Tuesday.

“They were good for us last

year and great for us this year,” Leonard said of the seven Wol-verine seniors. “Every hope and wish I can ask for out of a senior group, they fulfilled and then some. … I’m very pleased with what they gave the pro-gram.”

SH 002 000 0 — 2 5D-NH 000 000 0 — 0 4WP: Zeke Balderas.LP: Nick Durnin.SH AB H R RBIKlonglan 3 1 0 0Ellis 3 1 1 0Barquist 4 1 0 0Balderas 3 1 0 1Hewitt 3 1 0 1MBalderas 4 1 0 0Harris 2 0 0 0Swenson 2 0 0 0Berg 3 0 0 0Grady 0 0 0 0Coy 0 0 1 0Totals 26 6 2 2

Pitching IP H R ER BB KZBalderas 6 3 0 0 5 2Berg 1 1 0 0 1 32B: Z. Balderas. BB: Rylan Harris,

Dugan Swenson, DJ Klonglan.

D-NH AB H R RBIMapel 3 1 0 0Sonnenberg 1 0 0 0Weichers 4 0 0 0Johnson 3 1 0 0Huntington 2 1 0 0Beuter 1 0 0 0Vanderlind 3 0 0 0Durnin 3 1 0 0Ehmen 3 0 0 0Kiewiet 0 0 0 0Totals 23 4 0 0

Pitching IP H R ER BB KDurnin 3 5 2 2 4 3Vander. 4 0 0 0 0 33B: Durnin. SB: Trent Johnson.

BB: Drew Sonnenberg 2, Reece Beuter 2, Ethan Huntington, Clayton Mapel.

Wolverine baseball stunned by Hawks

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The AGWSR and BCLUW softball teams had three players each honored by the Iowa Girls Coaches Association in the IG-CA's all-district teams released last Friday.

BCLUW's Samantha Ubben, Leah Yantis and Jordyn Beegh-ly were named to the Class 2A Northeast District team and AG-WSR's Taryan Barrick, Maken-na Kuper and Alana Groninga were selected to the 1A North Central District squad.

Ubben, Yantis and Beeghly were all seniors on the Comets' roster this summer, helping the Comets to a 29-9 overall record and an NICL West conference title.

Groninga earned the all-dis-trict distinction in her senior season, while Barrick, the Cou-gars' starting pitcher, is a junior-to-be and Kuper is one of only two to be named to the North Central team in her eighth-grade season. AGWSR ended its sea-son in the regional final with a final record of 26-13.

Class 2A Northeast DistrictTaylor Hogan, Waterloo

Columbus, so.; Jaydlin See-hase, Sumner-Fredericksburg, sr.; Anna Ingalls, North Union, sr.; Kyarsten Mullen, North Union, sr.; Hannah Ausenhaus, Central Springs, so.; Krayton Allen, Sumner-Fredericksburg, jr.; Samantha Ubben, BCLUW, sr.; Kayla Sproul, Waterloo Co-lumbus, so.; Lauren Klaahsen,

Central Springs, sr.; Leah Yan-tis, BCLUW, sr.; Alissa Moss, South Hamilton, sr.; Mikayla Houge, CMB, fr.; Ady Win-termote, South Hamilton, sr.; Anna Dietrich, Central Springs, jr.; Sydney Schultz, Waterloo Columbus, so.; Alexus Jensen, Jesup, so.; Maddison Osborne, Alburnett, so.; Annika Wall, Je-sup, sr.; Kate Anderson, North Union, jr.; Jordyn Beeghly, BCLUW, sr.; Abby Kahler, CMB, sr.; Lane Morgan, Eagle Grove, so.

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Taryan Barrick, AGWSR, so.; Kori Wedeking, Clarks-ville, fr.; Taylor Graven, North Butler, sr.; Gigi Byrkeland, Bishop Garrigan, jr.; Cheyenne Behrends, Clarksville, 8th; Lily Liekweg, Janesville, so.; Jillian Dunn, Newman Catholic, sr.; Makenna Kuper, AGWSR, 8th; Lily Castle, Newman Catholic, fr.; Madison Meister, Bishop Garrigan, fr.; Kayla Siemans, North Butler, sr.; Tessa Dvorak, North Tama, jr.; Skylar Schmitt, Rockford, sr.; Macy Jacobs, North Butler, jr.; Kindra Wel-ter, Don Bosco, jr.; Kennedy Meister, Janesville, jr.; Morgan Luecht, Newman Catholic, sr.; Aubree Altman, Bishop Garri-gan, fr.; Alana Groninga, AG-WSR, sr.; Carissa Calderwood, North Tama, so.; Bailey Myers, Clarksville, so.

By JAKE RYDERThe Grundy Register

TRAER – During a post-season run where defense was king, the Gladbrook-Reinbeck baseball team met its match in a Class 1A district final last Saturday night.

Hudson was just as sharp defensively and had the right mixture of big hits and sound fundamentals to take advantage of a brief lapse in the Rebels’ otherwise-sterling defense, pouncing on the opening in a 3-2 victory for the Pirates and ending G-R’s season at 15-9.

Both teams scored two runs each in the fourth inning, but Hudson struck the winning run with a seventh-inning sequence that started with a wild pitch on a swinging strike three that put the eventual winning run on first base.

Hudson’s next batter popped up a bunt that G-R starter Tyler Tscherter tried to get under for a potential double play, but the ball was just out of Tscherter’s reach and both Pirates were safe at first and second.

Another bunt put the Pirate runners at second and third with one out, and a sac fly brought the run across the plate for Hudson, as John Colsch just avoided a swinging tag from G-R catcher Walker Thede.

Even G-R head coach Scott Kiburis couldn’t deny the irony of the situation after a stellar stretch of postseason pitching by the Rebels, including Joe Smoldt’s no-hitter last Thurs-day against North Tama.

“We pitch so well in the tournament and the thing that ends up beating us is a third-strike wild pitch,” Kiburis said. “Tyler just went for that (bunt), if he makes a play it’s a double play, if he doesn’t go for that there’s only a runner on second. Maybe that changes something, but they were able to lay down two good bunts and they play good fundamen-

By JAKE RYDERThe Grundy Register

TRAER – Joe Smoldt has been at the center of plenty of big-time moments before Thursday night’s baseball dis-trict final with Gladbrook-Re-inbeck and North Tama.

As Smoldt put the finishing touches on a no-hitter, part of G-R’s 3-0 victory over the Red-hawks, he followed the cliché of “act like you’ve been there before” to the letter.

He gave a single fist pump after his 16th and final strike-out of the night, a muted reac-tion on his face underneath the shadow cast by the blue bill of his baseball cap.

On to the next one: Work yet to be done for the latest chapter in Gladbrook-Reinbeck post-season magic.

“I think I was just fresh,” Smoldt said of his pitching vic-tory. “I thought I had a good chance to be successful, just going out there locating pitch-es and putting it where it’d be tough to hit.”

The Rebels advance to Sat-urday’s district final in Traer, where they’ll play Hudson, who upended No. 7 Don Bosco 5-3 in the early game on Thurs-day.

Smoldt was denied per-fection on Thursday after a fifth-inning free pass issued to Cael Even, who advanced to second on a stolen base before being stranded by one of Smol-dt’s plentiful strikeouts.

Otherwise, the Redhawks couldn’t even get a ball out of the infield until a seventh-in-ning flyout to center.

Smoldt, a senior, also started the scoring with an RBI sin-gle in the third that plated Tyler Tscherter.

The Rebels added one more run in the fourth and sixth

Gladbrook-Reinbeck’s Joe Smoldt fires a pitch during Thursday’s game with North Tama in Traer. Smoldt threw a no-hitter as the Rebels won 3-0. (Jake Ryder/The Grundy Register)

Smoldt throws no-hitter, Rebels blank Redhawks

innings on a Keagan Geisking RBI single and a Matt Roeding RBI double, respectively.

The rest was in the arm of Smoldt.

“He was ahead on a lot of the batters early on,” Glad-brook-Reinbeck coach Scott Kiburis said. “(North Tama’s) got three excellent hitters, 2-3-4, and Joe was able to come back on a couple of them and they might have hit the ball hard but it was right at our guys.”

Smoldt only needed 88 pitches on Saturday – if he didn’t strike them out himself, the Redhawks were hitting it to a very capable defensive unit.

“We’ve got two, three four pitchers that can come in and throw strikes, do their job,” Smoldt said, “and the defense we put behind them is second to none.”

NT 000 000 0 — 0 0G-R 001 101 x — 3 9WP: Joe Smoldt (7 IP, 0 H, 0 ER, 1

BB, 16 K)

G-R AB H R RBIATscherter 4 1 0 0TTscherter 3 2 1 0Smoldt 3 1 0 1Koppen 3 0 0 0Skovgard 3 0 0 0Thede 3 1 1 0Geisking 3 2 0 1Wrage 3 1 0 0Roeding 3 2 0 1Totals 28 10 3 3

Pitching IP H R ER BB KSmoldt 7 0 0 0 1 16SB: Tyler Tscherter.

Rebels fall to Hudson in district final

tal baseball.”Hudson ended a stretch of

12 consecutive hitless innings thrown by G-R pi tching this postseason in the fourth, scratching across two runs with a two-RBI single from John Colsch.

The Rebels answered in the bottom half of the inning with an RBI triple from Joe Smoldt, who scored on Kyle Koppen’s subsequent RBI groundout.

G-R’s best chance at pulling ahead was in the sixth inning, with runners on first and sec-ond in the meat of the Rebel order, but the Rebels came up empty against Hudson starter CJ Christopher.

“He hasn’t walked many people so we knew what we were going to see, … we were looking for a pitch to hit,” Kiburis said.

Saturday was the final game for G-R’s senior class, capping an eventful 2016-17 school year that included a sec-ond-consecutive football state championship, a runner-up fin-ish at state basketball, a sub-

state finalist in soccer and now a district finalist in baseball.

“They’re not used to los-ing,” Kiburis said. “They’re the kind of kids where Joe throws a no-hitter and everybody walks off and shakes his hand. That’s their mentality – never too high, never too low. They want to win and stay competitive and serious but they also have fun. … They’ll all go on to do great things in college, they were great in all of our sports.

“I want the kids to try and carry that on and learn from the kids above us. … There were kids here tonight that played 7-man football earlier in the day, they’ll play basket-ball with me tomorrow and if there’s nothing else going on, some of these kids will go out and work out on their own in the mornings. These kids are willing to compete hard in all of our sports.”

Hudson 000 200 1 —3 4G-R 000 200 0 —2 6WP: CJ Christopher.LP: Tyler Tscherter.

Hudson AB H R RBICaloud 3 0 0 0Murray 3 0 0 0Hageman 3 2 1 0Christopher 2 0 1 0Colsch 3 1 1 2Petersen 2 1 0 0Myers 2 0 0 0Mohr 2 0 0 1Richards 3 0 0 0Totals 23 4 3 3

Pitching IP H R ER BB KChristop 7 5 2 2 1 4BB: Christopher, Dylan Petersen.G-R AB H R RBIATscherter 4 0 0 0TTscherter 3 2 1 0Smoldt 2 1 1 1Koppen 3 0 0 1Skovgard 3 0 0 0Thede 3 1 0 0Geisking 3 1 0 0Wrage 3 0 0 0Roeding 3 0 0 0Totals 27 6 2 2

Pitching IP H R ER BB KTscherter 6 4 3 3 1 9Koppen 1 0 0 0 0 0

SB: Joe Smoldt. BB: Smoldt.

Gladbrook-Reinbeck’s Tyler Tscherter (left) is greeted by first-base coach Ben Bean after scoring in Saturday’s district final game with Hudson. (Jake Ryder/The Grundy Register)

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