REISTER IN FORT DODGE. IT COULD NOT BE ANY CLOSER THAN WHAT WE HAD IN THE CLASS. ONE, A QUARTERFINALS. BUT I’LL TELL YOU WHO DID GET THE JOB DONE. MARTENSDALE SAINT MARY’S TAKING LEAD. DINSDALE. SAINT MARY’S SCORED A RUN IN THE SIXTH TO TAKE A ONE NOTHING LEAD OVER FORT DODGE. SAINT ED’S TOP OF THE SEVENTH CAMPBELL GERMAN ON THE HILL TO CLOSE IT OUT IN STYLE. THE GERMAN A COMPLETE GAME. ONE ONE HIT SHUTOUT 12 STRIKEOUTS BARNSDALL CARL. SAINT MARY’S IS BACK IN THE SEMIFINALS FOR THE SECOND STRAIGHT SEASON WITH A ONE NOTHING WIN. WE REALLY WANT TO MAKE A STATE CHAMPIONSHIP THIS YEAR. WE MISSED THAT LAST YEAR JUST BY A HAIR, SO WE’RE REALLY EXCITED TO BE BACK HERE. WAYNE FACED THE FIVE SEED RIMS IN SAINT MARY’S. WAYNE UP THREE TWO IN THE FIFTH. SENIOR DEVON DAVIS OF WAYNE. BASES LOADED IN DEVON DEMOLISHES IT. HOW ABOUT A DRAMATIC GRAND SALAMI AT THE STATE TOURNAMENT THAT MADE IT 7 TO 2? WAYNE WINS EIGHT TWO. THEY FACE MARTINS AREDALE ON WEDNESDAY. CENTERDALE BACK AT STATE FOR THE SECOND STRAIGHT YEAR BUT IN TROUBLE AGAINST ASSUMPTION ON DEFENSE. AREDALE DOWN FIVE NOTHING BUT LOOK AT THIS EFFORT BY RILEY PESINA LAYING OUT TO MAKE THE CATCH AND IN THE INNING SIDDELL MANAGED SEVEN HITS BUT JUST COULD NOT GET ANYONE HOME. ASSUMPTION DOES ADVANCE WITH A FIVE NOTHING WIN SHANNON EARHART HAS MORE. I’M STANDING IN CENTER FIELD JUST BEYOND THE FENCE. BUT THE TWO WAY SOFTBALL TEAMS MIGHT AS WELL CALL THIS HOME RUN VILLAGE. HERE’S WHY. HOW ABOUT THIS FOR HYPE? IT’S THE TWO WAY QUARTERFINAL. SO I-35 SAID, LET’S GET SILLY. THEY COME IN AS THE UNDERDOG AGAINST LISBON, WHO LEADS ONE ZERO IN THE SECOND. TRINITY DARST, THE CATCHER AT THE PLATE. THAT’S A ROCKET. NO, MORE LIKE A MOONSHOT OVER THE FENCE. THE THREE RUN HOMER GIVES I-35 THE LEAD. LISBON SCORES FOUR IN THE SIXTH TO TIE THE GAME AT FIVE, BUT I-35 PICKS UP THE PHONE AND ANSWERS WITH FOUR RUNS IN THE SEVENTH TO HANG UP THE PHONE. I-35 TAKES IT 9 TO 5. I MEAN, IT FEELS GREAT. WE’VE WORKED SO HARD FOR THIS ALL SEASON. WE HAD SUCH A TOUGH SCHEDULE. WE HAD A LOT OF ROUGH LOSSES AT THE BEGINNING OF THE SEASON, BUT WE JUST CAME BACK AND BATTLED THIS WHOLE SEASON. I WANT TO KNOW WHAT A TWO SEED LOOKS LIKE. VANMETER FITS THAT MOLD. THE BULLDOGS AVERAGED NINE RUNS A GAME IN THE STATE QUARTERFINALS. WON’T SLOW THEM DOWN. THIRD INNING AGAINST MISSOURI VALLEY. LAUREN WALLACE RIPS IT TO THE BLEACHERS TO MAKE THAT A SOUVENIR THAT MAKES THE GAME 3 TO 0. VANMETER SHELVES THIS ON WITH THE REST WINNING 6 TO 1 OVER MISSOURI VALLEY. LET’S TALK TO A STATE BASEBALL IN CARROLL PELLA CHRISTIAN, THE EIGHTH SEED WAS ONE OUT AWAY FROM BEATING THE ONE SEED BECKMAN CATHOLIC BUT BECKMAN FORCE EXTRAS IN THE EIGHTH PELLA CHRISTIAN COMMITTED AN ERROR ALLOWING BECKMAN TO WIN IT 5 TO 4 PLUS WOODFORD. GRANGER LOST A CASCADE 7 TO 6 FOR THE REST OF STATE BASEBALL. LET’S GO TO JEFF DUBROF IN IOWA CITY, CLASS FOUR, AA TAKING CENTER STAGE ON TUESDAY AT BANKS FIELD IN IOWA CITY. JOHNSTON KICKING OFF ITS STATE TITLE DEFENSE AGAINST IOWA CITY LIBERTY, UP 2 TO 1 IN THE FOURTH. AND THEY’RE GOING TO BREAK THIS GAME OPEN THANKS TO SAM KEMMER, WHO DRIVES IN TWO RUNS ON THIS FLY BALL TO RIGHT FIELD. THAT STAYS FAIR. DRAGONS GO ON TO WIN IT. 9 TO 3 IS THE FINAL. THEY’RE FEELING CONFIDENT OUT OF THE GATE. WE KIND OF EXPECTED TO WIN THAT, YOU KNOW, VERY PREPARED. BEEN PREPARING FOR WEEKS NOW, KNEW WHO WE WERE GOING TO PLAY, KNEW HOW TO GET READY FOR THEM. SO JUST CAME OUT AND DID THE JOB. LET’S GO TO DCG IN DOWLING CATHOLIC THE MAROONS DOWN ONE NOTHING BUT NOT FOR LONG BACK TO BACK HOMERS TO START THIS GAME. THE FIRST IS COOPER NICHOLSON. THIS THING IS LAUNCHED TO LEFT FIELD TIED AT ONE AFTER THAT AND THE VERY NEXT BATTER BODE GAMBLE WITH AN ABSOLUTE MOONSHOT. THIS THING GOES OVER THE SCOREBOARD BARD MAROONS WOULD TAKE THE LEAD FROM THERE AND WOULD HOLD ON TO WIN. 4 TO 3 IS YOUR FINAL. GETTING BACK WITH TWO WAS HUGE. COOPER OBVIOUSLY SETTING THE TONE FIRST AND THEN BACKED IT UP, GOT A CURVE BALL, HUNG IT AND LAUNCHED IT. SOUTHEAST POLK TAKING ON CEDAR FALLS AND THE RAMS JUST RAN INTO A BUZZSAW ON TUESDAY. THEY WERE ABLE TO SCRATCH ACROSS JUST ONE RUN. IT CAME ON A TRIPLE BY IAN MCDANIEL THAT WAS IT. THE RAMS FALL IN THIS 111 TO 1. THE CLASS FOUR A STATE TOURNAMENT WILL RESUME PLAY ON THURSDAY HERE IN IOWA CITY. REPORTING FROM BANK FIELD JEFF DUBROF KCCI, IOWA’S SPORTS LEADER AND THE LATE GAME IN IOWA CITY.