POWERED BY CARL AUTO GROUP. SOME HOPES WERE DASHED. OTHER DREAMS CAME TRUE IN DRAMATIC FASHION AS TICKETS WERE PUNCHED TO THE STATE SOFTBALL AND BASEBALL TOURNAMENT ON A WILD NIGHT ACROSS IOWA. LET’S START WITH BASEBALL CLASS ONE, A SUBSTATE FINAL. LENNOX AND LYNNVILLE SULLY LYNNVILLE SULLY, 27 AND ONE TWO ON BOTTOM OF THE FIFTH, BLAKE VAN WYK BUNTS. ON THE FIRST PITCH, BRYCE RICHARDS IS GOING TO SLIDE HOME AND THEN CALEB RAY TURNS ON THE JETS RIGHT HERE. HE SCORES. ALSO, IT’S FIVE NOTHING. LYNNVILLE SULLY HAWKS HAS TWO OUTS. TOP OF THE SEVENTH. LENNOX WATCHES THE PITCH GO BY CATCHER TO REESE, DUNSBOROUGH COGGON AND THAT ENDS THE GAME IN STYLE. LYNNVILLE STOLE A STATE BOUND FOR THE FIRST TIME SINCE 2001 AFTER A52 WIN. I WAS REALLY NERVOUS COMING INTO THIS GAME. I THOUGHT I WAS GOING TO PUKE. I WAS. I WAS SCARED AND I JUST CAME IN, LINED MY HANDS UP ON THE BALL AND JUST SWUNG AWAY, I GUESS, AND SCORED A COUPLE RUNS OUT OF IT. I MEAN, I DON’T THINK I’VE EVER WON IN ANYTHING MORE IN MY LIFE THAN TO GO TO STATE IN BASEBALL. IT’S EVERYTHING WE’VE EVER WORKED FOR AND TO FINALLY MAKE IT IS JUST CRAZY. COLLINS OVER. WELL DONE, FELLAS. IN ANKENY THE FOUR TIME DEFENDING STATE CHAMPION VAN METER WAS IN TROUBLE AGAINST PELLA CHRISTIAN IN THE NINTH. HERE’S PELLA CHRISTIAN UP TO BAT. THE BULLDOGS HAVE BEEN NO HIT NOW. PELLA CHRISTIAN ONE OUT FOR SIMON BELZER. A FLY BALL TO RIGHT CENTER THERE’S A PLAY AT THE PLATE SAFE CALEB VAN ARENDONK BEATS THE THROW BY A HAIR EAGLES TAKE A ONE NOTHING LEAD VAN METER WOULD TIE IT IN THE BOTTOM HALF TO FORCE EXTRAS. BUT PELLA CHRISTIAN DID WIN TWO ONE. THE FINAL EAGLES WITH A MONSTER UPSET. THEY ARE HEADED TO THE STATE TOURNAMENT NEXT WEEK. ALSO IN ANKENY, AN INCREDIBLE SOFTBALL GAME GOING ON ANKENY TAKING ON WAUKEE. ANKENY HAS A21 LEAD, BUT THE WARRIORS HAVE RUNNERS ON SECOND AND THIRD. A CHOPPER BY ZANA ZELENSKYY SLOW ENOUGH TO SCORE THE RUN FROM THIRD AND WE ARE TIED AT TWO TWO FIFTH INNING. NOW THE HAWKS ARE THREATENING WITH ABBY RUSHER TO THE PLATE. SHE SENDS ONE TO THE GAP. IT GETS DOWN AND SCORES TO ANKENY TAKES A42 LEAD. FINAL INNING FINAL HOPE FOR WAUKEE WAUKEE WAS DOWN 423 RUNNERS ON SECOND AND THIRD FINAL OUT HERE. MARIUCCIO HITS IT BUT RIGHT AT THE PITCHER FLIPS IT TO FIRST ANKENY SURVIVES FOUR THREE HEADED TO THE STATE TOURNAMENT IN FORT DODGE. IT FEELS PRETTY DARN GOOD. IT IT’S A GOOD GROUP OF GIRLS AND EVERYTHING IS SO WELL DESERVED AND WE’VE PUT IN SO MUCH WORK FOR THIS. AND IT’S IT’S OUR TIME RIGHT NOW. BAILEY HEY, THAT’S WHERE DANCING OVER ASHAWA PLAYED SOUTHEAST POLK. THERE’S A TON. THERE’S SOUTHEAST POLK. LET’S GET IT GOING. BOTTOM OF THE FIRST LEADOFF HITTER, JADA LONG. SEE YOU LATER. WOW, THAT’S A STATEMENT AT BAT. YOU SHOWED. WE SHOWED SHANNON EARHART WITH THE HOME RUN HAD EARLIER. WELL, IT BELONGS TO JADA. ONE NOTHING. SOUTHEAST POLK TOP OF THE SECOND LONG ON THE MOUND. SAM WEEKS GOES YARD HER TURN FOR A HOME RUN A TON WAS FIRST RUNNERS ON THE BOARD IT WAS THEIR ONLY RUN THOUGH SOUTHEAST POLK’S OFFENSE TWO DOMINANT RAMS GO ON TO MAKE BACK TO BACK STATE TOURNAMENT APPEARANCES. THEY WIN IT 5 TO 1 AT HOME. LINCOLN HAD A SHOT TO MAKE STATE FOR THE FIRST TIME SINCE 2011. THEY WERE LEADING DEFENDING STATE CHAMP WAUKEE NORTHWEST ONE. NOTHING IN THE BOTTOM OF THE SEVENTH, BUT A COSTLY ERROR BY LINCOLN ALLOWED THE WOLVES TO GET A RUNNER ON THIRD. ANYA VAN ZETTEN DRIVES IN A TYING RUN ON A SAC FLY. WE GO TO THE 10TH IN THE 10TH, TIED AT ONE. ELENA SCHULTE BUNTS. THERE WAS A RUNNER ON SECOND, MAGGIE ALLEN ROUNDS THIRD, AND SHE DASHES FOR HOME FROM SECOND BASE. SHE SCORES ON THE BUNT. BUT WOW, THAT ENDS THE GAME. WAUKEE NORTHWEST WINS A THRILLER TWO ONE DENYING LINCOLN HISTORY AND THE WOLVES GRABBED THE BANNER. THEY ARE HEADED BACK TO THE FORT DODGE TO DEFEN