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LYNX JV SOFTBALL 4-1: Delainey Bargfrede tossed a one-hit shutout with 10 strikeouts, and she also ripped a double at the plate to help propel the Webster City junior varsity softball team to a 3-2 win over Humboldt Wednesday evening in Humboldt. Chloe Andersen, Trinity Griffith and Livia Kasch all smacked two hits in the win for the Lynx, who are now 4-1 on the season and 4-0 in the North Central Conference. Griffith had a double and RBI, Kasch found the gap for a triple, and Andersen swiped two bases. WCHS also took care of Clear Lake (4-3) on Monday, and topped Algona twice (9-5 and 8-1) last week. Bargfrede fanned 11 batters in the win over Clear Lake and a com-bined 14 in the two wins over Algona. Andersen and Bonnie Nohrenberg both had two hits, including a double, against Algona last Friday night. Two nights earlier, Andersen went 2 for 2 with a double, and Griffith also lashed a double against the Bulldogs. Boone handed WCHS its only loss, 11-2, last week. Andersen and Ava Peterson each had a hit in the game. Bargfrede struck out six. LYNX FRESHMEN TOP HUMBOLDT: The Webster City freshman softball team ripped off 13 hits and outscored Humboldt, 16-10, earlier this week. Bonnie Nohrenberg went 3 for 3 and scored four runs, while Trinity Griffith was 3 for 4 with a double. Ellie Weinschenk and Delainey Bargfrede had two hits each; Ava Peterson and Jill Symens both laced a double. Bargfrede also drove in two runs.

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crooked number in the first inning Wednesday night at the Mike Penning Athletic Complex and it resulted in a second consecutive loss. After giving up five runs in the opening frame to Roland-Story last week, South Hamilton (2-2, 2-2 HOIC) was touched for three in the first inning against Saydel on Wednes-day. The Eagles (5-5, 3-2 HOIC) never trailed in a 9-2 win over the Hawks. “I really don’t know what the reason is,” Galetich said. “Those two teams have kind of jumped on us early hitting wise and it’s not like we’ve been kicking the ball around.” Saydel opened up a 4-0 lead after 21⁄2 innings and pushed it to 6-1 after its half of the fifth. The Eagles rat-tled off 15 hits against South Hamilton pitchers Elijah Balderas and Brock Galetich, 11 of them com-ing from the bottom half of the order. “They hit the ball better than I expected,” Kyle Galetich said. “It just felt like we were facing an up-hill battle all night.” Mason Hicks led Saydel with three hits, one of them a double. Skyler Cardenas also roped three hits, and two others — Nathan Jaeger and Logan Carney — had two. Brock Galetich went 2 for 3 at the dish, while Tycin Barkema and Lane Swenson were both 2 for 4

for South Hamilton. Swen-son found the gap for a triple. Cade Flaugh went 1 for 4 with an RBI. Brandyn Feighner added a single and Quinton Grove drove in a run. South Hamilton will face another stern test this evening when it makes the short trek to Gilbert to take on the Tigers.

South Hamilton third baseman Cade Flaugh watches the ball dribble foul against Saydel on Wednesday in Jewell. He had a hit and RBI in the Hawks’ 9-2 loss. DFJ photo/Angela Hewitt

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Saydel 9, South Hamilton 2 Wednesday at Jewell

Saydel 301 023 0 — 9 15 0 S. Ham. 001 010 0 — 2 8 1 Austin Pyles, Nathan Jaeger (7) and Skyler Cardenas. Elijah Balderas, Brock Galetich (6), Quinton Grove (7) and Brandyn Feighner, Balderas (6). WP — Pyles. LP — Balderas. Multiple hits — SAY: Cardenas (3), Mason Hicks (3), Jaeger, Logan Car-ney; SH: Galetich, Tycin Barkema, Lane Swenson. 2B — SAY: Hicks, Jaeger, Dakota Ellsworth. 3B — SH: Swenson. RBI — SAY: Jaeger (2), Ellsworth (2), Carney (2), Hicks, Carney, Cal Gebhart; SH: Cade Flaugh, Quinton Grove.

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Iowa Conference loss to Saydel. The Eagles (4-5, 2-3 HOIC) took advantage of six Hawk errors, smacked 12 hits and scored three or more runs in four of their at bats to cruise to the win. “The most outstanding statistic was the 17 runs they scored on 12 hits, that tells you a lot about how we played defensively,” South Hamilton head coach Harry McMaken said. “The errors came at real inopportune times and we could never really shut them down.” South Hamilton (2-2, 2-2 HOIC) rattled off 10 hits, highlighted by Mackenzy Grady’s first varsity home run — a two-run blast in the second inning that pulled the Hawks even at 4. Grady eventually scored to briefly give her team the lead. Emma Lewis, Anna Lam-mers and Emmaly Fields all laced two hits in the loss. Lammers, who had two RBIs, doubled moments be-fore Grady’s dinger. Brenna Barquist and Kaylee Os-kvig both singled. Rachel Barton paced Saydel with three doubles, and she was one of three Eagles with multiple hits. Hawks’ pitcher Jessi

Harms was responsible for all 12 hits; she surrendered 11 earned runs and walked three to go along with five strikeouts. South Hamilton will be at Gilbert this evening.

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Saydel 17, South Hamilton 7 Wednesday at Jewell

Saydel 403 415 — 17 12 5 S. Ham 141 010 — 7 10 6 Mariah Cockerham and Brooklyn Leydens. Jessi Harms and Mackenzy Grady. WP — Cockerham. LP — Harms. Multiple hits — Rachel Bar-ton (3), Rylee Carney, Delaney Shinn; SH: Emma Lewis, Anna Lammers, Emily Fields. 2B — SAY: Barton (3), Barney, Shinn; SH: Lam-mers. HR — SH: Grady. RBI — SAY: Carney (3), Barton (3), Shinn (2), Leydens (2), Kaydence Butters, Cadence Dhabolt, Kathryn Van Houten; SH: Lammers (2), Grady (2), Fields, Kate Barkema, Kaylee Oskvig.

Emma Lewis whips the ball to first for an out during South Hamilton’s 17-7 loss to Saydel on Wednesday in Jewell. DFJ photo/Angela Hewitt

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plate. He drove in the Lynx first run on an RBI single in the second and then brought the team back into con-tention in the sixth with his bomb to left field that cleared the bases. He fin-ished 2 for 3 with five RBIs. “Beau is another one of those kids that will do the things you ask and then he does more,” Kehoe said. “A game like that will build his confidence immensely.” WCHS (4-2) finished with nine hits off Humboldt hurler Cade Witzke, who went the distance to earn the win. Witzke struck out five. Ty McKinney also had two hits in the loss, one coming in the sixth that ig-nited the Lynx rally, and CJ Hisler joined him with a pair of singles. Devon

Stoakes, Tyler Olson and Connor Hanson all added a base knock. Humboldt got to WCHS starting pitcher Zach Dyvig

for five second-inning runs. Two of the runs came on a bases loaded bean ball and a bases loaded walk. Dyvig allowed five runs and struck

out three in two innings of work. Trey Lyons and Hanson both worked in relief. Lyons went three innings and was touched for just two hits; he fanned five. Hanson came on in the sixth and gave up one hit; he walked two and struck out two. WCHS will return home on Monday for a league game against St. Edmond. The Gaels (3-2) opened their season last week by beating Humboldt, 3-1.

WCHS freshman CJ Hisler (4) slides back into sec-ond ahead of the throw during Wednesday’s game against Humboldt in Humboldt. Photo by Rick Thompson

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Humboldt 7, Webster City 5 Wednesday at Humboldt

Web City 010 004 0 — 5 9 1 Humboldt 050 101 x — 7 8 3 Zach Dyvig, Trey Lyons (3), Connor Hanson (6) and Devon Stoakes. Cade Witzke and Colby Clarken. WP — Witzke. LP — Dyvig. Multi-ple hits — WC: Beau Klaver, Ty McKinney; HUM: Witzke, Clarken. 2B — HUM: Clarken. HR — WC: Klaver. RBI — WC: Klaver (5); HUM: Witzke (2), Clarken, Caden Matson, Jacob Thurm, Caiden Bak-er.

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home runs and was decided by a deep fly ball and colli-sion at the plate. The four-time defending North Cen-tral Conference champion Wildcats survived, 6-5, and essentially eliminated the Lynx from league title con-tention. “The girls did a good job of fighting, and that’s the No. (2) team in 3A and we came out to win,” Howard, the Lynx head coach, said after the near-miss. “That’s a night where you wish you were the home team, giving you that one last chance. It didn’t go our way this time, but we showed we can com-pete.” Taylor McKinney and Jenna Miller both went yard for WCHS (3-3, 2-2 NCC), while Ellie Jacobson, Mady Lange and Kendal Clark all turned the spacious dia-mond into a launching pad for the Wildcats. The two teams combined for 13 hits. WCHS knew it was in for a nervous bottom of the ninth with the lethal top of Humboldt’s lineup set to step into the batter’s box. A one-out walk to Jori Hajek set things in motion and she quickly moved to third on a stolen base and throwing er-ror. A few pitches later, Lange lofted a deep fly into right-center. Tatum Goings made the catch and quickly fired towards the plate. Her throw moved up the line, which forced Lynx catcher Kelly Stoakes to step into the base line to try to make a play. Hajek and Stoakes col-

lided a few steps from the plate; Hajek was awarded the base on interference for the walk-off win. Stoakes, the Lynx sopho-more all-state phenom, laid on the dirt for a few mo-ments before walking back to the dugout. “She’s fine, just had the wind knocked out of her, and she had to do whatever she could to try to make that play,” Howard said of Stoakes. “You think about the situation and what you do ... their three through six hitters are tough to go against.” Lange went 2 for 3 with three RBIs against Miller, the Lynx junior hurler. Jacobson, Humboldt’s all-state pitcher, helped herself in the first inning when she turned on an inside offering from Miller and hit a screaming two-run home run to left field. WCHS drew even in the third when McKinney gave

Jacobson a taste of her own medicine. With Stoakes aboard on a single, McKin-ney found a pitch in her wheelhouse and deposited it over the fence in left. And the home run derby was just beginning. It was Lange’s turn in the third — a solo shot that just cleared the 210-foot sign in center to put Humboldt (5-0, 4-0 NCC) back on top, 3-2. It remained that way until the sixth when WCHS brought its own top of the order to the plate. Stoakes ignited the rally with a lead-off double to left-center and McKinney walked. Two batters later, Miller put a charge into a Jacobson pitch and deposited a no-doubt three-run home run to left to put the Lynx in front, 5-3. Stoakes (three) and Miller (two) accounted for five of the Lynx six hits. “As a spectator, you’ve got two top pitchers in the state going at it and you’ve got hitters that are ready to battle them every single time,” Howard said. “(Ja-cobson’s) got a breaking ball that goes every way but straight, so for them to take advantage of that and get in her head was huge.” Clark trimmed Hum-boldt’s deficit in half with a single swing in the bottom of the sixth — a solo shot to right-center. Humboldt forced extra in-nings in the last half of the seventh courtesy of, once again, the top of the lineup. Carlie Thompson roped a lead-off double to left-cen-ter and eventually scored on a Lange sac fly to left that stayed just inside the park. With Hajek standing on

third as the potential win-ning run with just one out, Howard elected to inten-tionally walk Jacobson and Clark to load the bases. The chess move paid off, as Ad-die Thompson popped up a bunt and Lynx first baseman Faith Anderson raced in to make the catch. Hajek drift-ed too far off third and An-derson whipped the ball to McKinney for a double play that ended the threat. Miller finished with five strikeouts in a losing effort. Jacobson fanned 13 and kept the bottom half of the Lynx order to a combined 0 for 18. Now trailing Humboldt and ninth-ranked (3A) Algona by two games in the league standings, Howard knows her team’s league ti-tle hopes have vanished. But she says there’s still plenty to play for. “This is a year that win-ning the conference would be great, but it’s not a true conference running (due to the shortened schedule),” she said. “So what we’re taking away from this is what we’re capable of and we’re going to take that into (tonight).” WCHS will be at Iowa Falls-Alden this evening.

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Humboldt 6, Webster City 5 (9 inn) Wednesday at Humboldt

WC 002 003 000 — 5 6 4 HUM 201 001 101 — 6 7 0 Jenna Miller and Kelly Stoakes. Ellie Jacobson and Mady Lange. WP — Jacobson. LP — Miller. Multiple hits — WC: Kelly Stoakes (3), Miller; HUM: Lange, Kendal Clark. 2B — WC: Stoakes; HUM: Carlie Thompson. HR — WC: Miller, Tay-lor McKinney; HUM: Jacobson, Lange, Clark. RBI — WC: Miller (3), McKinney (2); HUM: Lange (3), Jacobson (2), Clark.

Webster City outfielders Tatum Goings (left) and Addie Tesdahl collide on a pop-fly hit in the gap against Humboldt on Wednesday in Humboldt. DFJ photo/Troy Banning

Webster City’s home run hit-ters, Taylor McKinney (5) and Jenna Miller, high-five in the dugout following Miller’s three-run bomb against Hum-boldt on Wednesday. McKin-ney also cranked a two-run shot in the Lynx 6-5, 9-inning loss. DFJ photo/Troy Banning