They very nearly ran out of room on the scoresheet as New Hampton and South Winn baseball took their July 2 game to the tenth inning before the Chickasaws scored the tiebreaker to win 4-3. The JV had more breathing room, winning 9-2.

    Turkey Valley didn’t try and steal a base Thursday night against top-rated BCLUW until the seventh inning, when Megan Lukes headed toward second. The move may have caught the Comets off guard, and it ended with Lukes scoring the winning run, advancing the Trojan girls to the state tournament this week with a 3-2 win.

    The Chickasaw girls ended their season with a flair as they went 4-0 in their final regular season games.

    The Chickasaws suffered a double loss to NEIC teams Waverly-Shell Rock and Charles City, the league-leader.

    The tournament trail seemed to get easier for Turkey Valley as they won their first game by a run in extra innings, won their second contest in regulation by a run, 4-3 over Sumner-Fredericksburg, and won the regional semi-final game Tuesday night, 3-0 over North Butler.

    Eleven runs in the first inning pretty well assured the Turkey Valley baseball team of a quarterfinal win over South Winn July 5, they went on to a 14-3, five inning victory.

    In a warm-up game for the post-season, Turkey Valley’s boys defeated Cresco, 9-7. The win ended the regular season for the Trojans at 23-15.

    The Megans each pitched a game against Waverly-Shell Rock June 24 in a double header. Both allowed four runs, both were tagged for seven hits, neither walked a Go-Hawk batter.

    It only took five innings for the Chickasaw softball team to dispose of Waterloo Columbus June 26 as Carlie Schnoebelen had quite a night at the plate.

    The Cadets won over New Hampton softball in both ends of a double header on June 25, 5-2 and 8-3.

    A walk-off home run by Kristin Milbrandt took the Turkey Valley softball team past South Winn in the first round of the regional tournament held at Jackson Junction Thursday.

    Turkey Valley played Waukon in a non-conference game on July 1, beating the Indians 7-3.

    With four games scheduled for the New Hampton girls at the Linn-Mar-Alburnett softball tournament on June 20 and 21, the Chickasaws went to the final game before losing one.

    In games on June 18 and 19, the New Hampton varsity softball team defeated South Winn and lost to Crestwood. Scores of the two match-ups were 13-2, New Hampton over the Warriors and 6-3, the loss to the Cadets.

    The Chickasaws weren’t able to get much going until the fifth inning against North Fayette, but once the runs started, they poured in.