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Centennial wins first softball title in dominating fashion

Jaguars outscore opponents 29-2 over three games in Fort Dodge

Centennial wins first softball title in dominating fashion

Jaguars outscore opponents 29-2 over three games in Fort Dodge

CLASS FIVE AA CHAMPIONSHIP. IT’S CENTENNIAL’S WORLD AND WE’RE JUST LIVING IN IT. THE TOP SEED JAGS MADE THINGS VERY UNPLEASANT FOR PLEASANT VALLEY. JORDAN KENNEDY THIS GIRL’S A FRESHMAN. SHE SENDS THAT BALL ALL THE WAY BACK TO ANKENY, A TWO RUN HOME RUN MADE IT EIGHT. NOTHING. WE’RE ONLY IN THE SECOND INNING, FOLKS. THEY CANNOT BE STOPPED. FOURTH INNING, MARIAH BELZER, DOES IT HAVE THE DISTANCE? YOU BETCHA. ALL THAT WAS LEFT TO DO WAS CELEBRATE THAT FINAL OUT. A BEAUTY AND THAT’S IT. 11 NOTHING IN FIVE. THE FINAL. CENTENNIAL RAISES THE TROPHY FOR THE FIRST TIME IN SCHOOL HISTORY. AND OVER THE THREE GAMES HERE IN FORT DODGE, THEY OUTSCORED OPPONENTS 29 TO 2. I WAS JUST SO HYPED. ME AND MADDIE WERE PLANNING IN THE DUGOUT THAT WE WERE GOING TO HUG EACH OTHER RIGHT AWAY AFTER WE WON. SO IT WAS A GREAT MOMENT. FIRST STATE TITLE IN SCHOOL HISTORY. IT’S SOMETHING SPECIAL. IT MEANS A LOT TO ME. IT MEANS A LOT TO THE PROGRAM. BUT MOST IMPORTANTLY, IT’S THE GIRLS THAT HAVE BEEN HERE AND PLAYED THAT HAVE HELPED DEVELOP AND BUILD THAT PROGRAM TO THESE GIRLS RIGHT NOW. AND THE FUTURE THAT WAS JUST HERE. IT’S ALL ABOUT POP FLAG UP. I WAS LIKE, OH MY GOSH, WE’RE STATE CHAMPS. I JUST WAS CRAZY BECAUSE THE SENIORS AND I HAVE ALL BEEN DREAMING OF THIS MOMENT SINCE LIKE EIGHTH GRADE WHEN WE WENT UNDEFEATED THAT SEASON. SO IT’S JUST LIKE IT FEELS SO AMAZING. CENTENNIAL SO TALENTED, AND A LOT OF YOUNG PLAYERS, THEY COULD BE HERE FOR YEARS TO COME. AND TOMORROW WE’LL BE HERE AGAIN BECAUSE THERE’S THREE MORE CLASSES OF STATE CHAMPS AS WE WRAP UP THE SEASON TOMORROW HERE AT
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Centennial wins first softball title in dominating fashion

Jaguars outscore opponents 29-2 over three games in Fort Dodge

How's that for history? Top-seed Ankeny Centennial blew out No. 6 Pleasant Valley 11-0 in 5 innings Thursday to win the school's first-ever State Softball Championship. Centennial, which led 8-0 after just two innings, they got home runs from freshman Jordyn Kennedy and senior Mariah Belzer. Lauren Gustofson pitched five scoreless innings for the Jags. In the three games at State, Centennial outscored its opponents 29-2. Kennedy, a freshman, was named the captain of the 5A All-Tournament Team.https://twitter.com/scottreister/status/1682196657494949889KCCI has more from Fort Dodge at 10.

How's that for history? Top-seed Ankeny Centennial blew out No. 6 Pleasant Valley 11-0 in 5 innings Thursday to win the school's first-ever State Softball Championship. Centennial, which led 8-0 after just two innings, they got home runs from freshman Jordyn Kennedy and senior Mariah Belzer.

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Lauren Gustofson pitched five scoreless innings for the Jags. In the three games at State, Centennial outscored its opponents 29-2. Kennedy, a freshman, was named the captain of the 5A All-Tournament Team.

https://twitter.com/scottreister/status/1682196657494949889

KCCI has more from Fort Dodge at 10.