Westwood tests Cherokee in 2A
Posted: Tuesday, July 08, 2008
Cherokee's defending state champs face a stern test tonight in a Class 2A district semfinal in Cherokee against Westwood.
No. 1-ranked Cherokee is 25-1 and Westwood 24-9. Westwood outlasted Hinton 14-13 in eight innings in its tourney opener and Kyle Ruehle tossed a three-hit shutout as Cherokee blanked Battle Creek-Ida Grove 10-0 in five innings in its tourney debut.
While 2A teams return the tourney trail tonight, first-round action commences in Class 1A.
Remsen St. Mary's, a member of the state tourney field a year ago, opens a bid for a seventh summer state tourney appearance at home against another traditional Northwest Iowa power, Granville Spalding Catholic.
St. Mary's and Spalding collide at 7 o'clock after Marcus-Meriden-Cleghorn and Remsen-Union meet at 5 o'clock in Remsen. Class 1A district semifinals are Thursday.
The two Siouxland teams in the final Iowa Baseball Coaches Association 1A rankings, No. 6 Alta and No. 7 Clay Central-Everly, are in opposite brackets in the same district.
Clay Central-Everly meets George-Little Rock at 5 p.m. tonight in Lake Park, while Alta hosts Laurens-Marathon at 7 o'clock.
Alta hits .392 as a team, led by Jake Bibler, who is hitting .462 with five home runs. The Cyclones are feature junior speedstar Mike Huseman, won finished third in the 100, seventh in the 200 and anchored a winning 4x200 relay in the Class 1A state track meet in May.
Should Alta and Clay Central-Everly advance to the district finals they would meet Saturday in Spencer.
The Sioux Central team that defeated Twin River Valley in a 2A district opener and meets Okoboji tonight in Emmetsburg in a district semifinal, also boasts speed. Standout Trevor Tiefenthaler was the Class 1A 400-meter champ in the state track meet in Des Moines.
Also in 2A tonight, second-ranked Davenport Assumption, a 5-4 loser to Cherokee in the title game last summer, meets Goose Lake Northeast. Assumption bombed Camanche 17-0 in five innings in its tourney opener.
Tonight's Pairings
CLASS 2A
At Rock Rapids: 7 p.m. -- Hull Western Christian vs. Rock Valley
At Sioux Center: 7 p.m. -- Orange City Unity Christian vs. Sioux Center
At Sheldon: 7 p.m. -- Sibley-Ocheyedan vs. Sheldon
At Emmetsburg: 7 p.m. -- Sioux Central vs. Okoboji
At Cherokee: 7 p.m. -- Cherokee vs. Westwood
At Neola: 7 p.m. -- Neola Tri-Center vs. Logan-Magnolia
CLASS 1A
At Remsen: 5 p.m. -- Marcus-Meriden-Cleghorn vs. Remsen-Union; 7 -- Remsen St. Mary's vs. Granville Spalding Catholic
At Le Mars Gehlen Catholic: 5 p.m. -- Lawton-Bronson vs. Woodbury Central; 7 -- Gehlen Catholic vs. Kingsley-Pierson.
At Holstein: 5 p.m. -- River Valley vs. Schaller-Crestland; 7 -- Aurelia vs. Galva-Holstein.
At Westside: 5 p.m. -- Odebolt-Arthur vs. West Monona; 7 -- Ar-We-Va vs. Charter Oak-Ute
At Lake Park: 5 p.m. -- Clay Central-Everly vs. George-Little Rock; 7 -- Harris-Lake Park vs. Ruthven-Ayrshire
At Alta: 5 p.m. -- Newell-Fonda vs. Storm Lake St. Mary's; 7 -- Alta vs. Laurens-Marathon
At Bancroft: 5 p.m. -- Graettinger-Terril vs. Armstrong-Ringsted
At Dunlap: 5 p.m. -- West Harrison vs. Woodbine; 7 -- Boyer Valley vs. Elk Horn-Kimballton
No. 1-ranked Cherokee is 25-1 and Westwood 24-9. Westwood outlasted Hinton 14-13 in eight innings in its tourney opener and Kyle Ruehle tossed a three-hit shutout as Cherokee blanked Battle Creek-Ida Grove 10-0 in five innings in its tourney debut.
While 2A teams return the tourney trail tonight, first-round action commences in Class 1A.
Remsen St. Mary's, a member of the state tourney field a year ago, opens a bid for a seventh summer state tourney appearance at home against another traditional Northwest Iowa power, Granville Spalding Catholic.
St. Mary's and Spalding collide at 7 o'clock after Marcus-Meriden-Cleghorn and Remsen-Union meet at 5 o'clock in Remsen. Class 1A district semifinals are Thursday.
The two Siouxland teams in the final Iowa Baseball Coaches Association 1A rankings, No. 6 Alta and No. 7 Clay Central-Everly, are in opposite brackets in the same district.
Clay Central-Everly meets George-Little Rock at 5 p.m. tonight in Lake Park, while Alta hosts Laurens-Marathon at 7 o'clock.
Alta hits .392 as a team, led by Jake Bibler, who is hitting .462 with five home runs. The Cyclones are feature junior speedstar Mike Huseman, won finished third in the 100, seventh in the 200 and anchored a winning 4x200 relay in the Class 1A state track meet in May.
Should Alta and Clay Central-Everly advance to the district finals they would meet Saturday in Spencer.
The Sioux Central team that defeated Twin River Valley in a 2A district opener and meets Okoboji tonight in Emmetsburg in a district semifinal, also boasts speed. Standout Trevor Tiefenthaler was the Class 1A 400-meter champ in the state track meet in Des Moines.
Also in 2A tonight, second-ranked Davenport Assumption, a 5-4 loser to Cherokee in the title game last summer, meets Goose Lake Northeast. Assumption bombed Camanche 17-0 in five innings in its tourney opener.
Tonight's Pairings
CLASS 2A
At Rock Rapids: 7 p.m. -- Hull Western Christian vs. Rock Valley
At Sioux Center: 7 p.m. -- Orange City Unity Christian vs. Sioux Center
At Sheldon: 7 p.m. -- Sibley-Ocheyedan vs. Sheldon
At Emmetsburg: 7 p.m. -- Sioux Central vs. Okoboji
At Cherokee: 7 p.m. -- Cherokee vs. Westwood
At Neola: 7 p.m. -- Neola Tri-Center vs. Logan-Magnolia
CLASS 1A
At Remsen: 5 p.m. -- Marcus-Meriden-Cleghorn vs. Remsen-Union; 7 -- Remsen St. Mary's vs. Granville Spalding Catholic
At Le Mars Gehlen Catholic: 5 p.m. -- Lawton-Bronson vs. Woodbury Central; 7 -- Gehlen Catholic vs. Kingsley-Pierson.
At Holstein: 5 p.m. -- River Valley vs. Schaller-Crestland; 7 -- Aurelia vs. Galva-Holstein.
At Westside: 5 p.m. -- Odebolt-Arthur vs. West Monona; 7 -- Ar-We-Va vs. Charter Oak-Ute
At Lake Park: 5 p.m. -- Clay Central-Everly vs. George-Little Rock; 7 -- Harris-Lake Park vs. Ruthven-Ayrshire
At Alta: 5 p.m. -- Newell-Fonda vs. Storm Lake St. Mary's; 7 -- Alta vs. Laurens-Marathon
At Bancroft: 5 p.m. -- Graettinger-Terril vs. Armstrong-Ringsted
At Dunlap: 5 p.m. -- West Harrison vs. Woodbine; 7 -- Boyer Valley vs. Elk Horn-Kimballton
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