Fairfield News

Despite a fourth-place finish in the final top-heavy Southeast Conference standings, the Fairfield baseball team rallied to put five players on the first-team squad.Jake Dunbar was a senior leader for the Trojans all season from his second-base position and finished the year with a team-high .406 average from the plate that included 11 doubles, 30 runs scored, 17 stolen bases and 27 RBI?s ? also team highs. Dunbar

pproaching, the Pekin Football coaching staff is preparing to host 2010 Panther football camps. Those interested can register at the camp being held on the Pekin football practice field. For more information please contact head coach Joe Donovan at joe.donovan68@gmail.com.The high school camp open to student-athletes entering grades 9-12 is set for Aug. 2-6 from 8-11 a.m. with the first day of practice commencing

So what did I do with my summer?Me? Well, I watched nine people stand around a field while a few others in different colored shirts ran around in a circle on that same field.Of course, there might have been a little more than that going on, but I think that was the gist of it, and my point is, I saw a lot of baseball and softball this summer. When it wasn?t raining that is.Even though it was limited by those

DONNELLSON ? The hard-hitting offenses of second-ranked Davis County and No. 8 Van Buren were combining to score nearly 20 runs per game entering Tuesday?s Class 2A district semifinal, but pitching stole the show.And it was like Davis County?s Calvin Mathews ransacked, looted and plundered before leaving the country with it.Mathews quieted a Van Buren lineup that boasted a .397 batting average entering Tuesday with

EDDYVILLE ? Albia?s Jake Stalzer pitched eight scoreless innings in the Blue Demons? 1-0 win over Eddyville-Blakesburg Saturday, and when he took the same mound Tuesday night, it was a different opponent but much of the same result.Stalzer got the best of Pekin hitters over the full seven innings Tuesday to get his team a 4-0 victory and keep the Blue Demons marching into Saturday?s district final vs. second-ranked

The Fairfield baseball team?s stumble through the stretch run of the regular season absorbed one final blow as the Trojans limp into district play.Fairfield fell to Oskaloosa by scores of 6-4 and 10-4 at Tuesday?s doubleheader to wrap up the regular season. The Trojans have now lost 10 straight games to end the year, but get to wipe that slate clean when they hop on the bus for a trip to Centerville and Friday?s

Keokuk senior pitcher Hannah Washburn was back in form Tuesday night vs. Pella and she pitched her Chief team to the regional final.Washburn struck out eight and gave up three hits and one walk to make the Chiefs? lone score in the bottom of the first inning hold strong for a 1-0 victory in Fairfield. Sixth-ranked Keokuk now hosts Southeast Conference rival and 12th-ranked Fort Madison in tonight?s regional final.

WILTON ? Mid-Prairie upset fourth-ranked Wilton by as score of 1-0 and became Pekin?s opponent in tonight?s Class 2A Region 7 final.The winner will advance to the state tournament. For Pekin, it is its first regional final since 2002 and a win would put them in the state tournament for the first time in 46 years.The Panthers advanced with a 4-0 win over West Burlington-Notre Dame Monday.

A team that ended its season at the state tournament a year ago took its first step to get back and toppled Fairfield in the process.An experienced Keokuk team ? most notably, pitcher Hannah Washburn ? proved too powerful both offensively and defensively and eventually took care of the Trojans by a final score of 6-2 in the opening round of Class 3A regional play. The young Fairfield squad ends its season with a

In three previous meetings this year, Fairfield had outscored Keokuk 50-3, but the results of Thursday?s doubleheader indicate that the Chiefs may not have cared.Keokuk jumped on Fairfield early in game one and late in game two to get back some of that score differential by sweeping the Trojans by scores of 9-8 and 16-12.?I think the outcome of the games is pretty representative of how the boys showed up today,?

PACKWOOD ? A tough week for the Pekin baseball team got a little bumpier during Thursday night?s game vs. Highland.Husky pitcher Zach Rozmus struck out 16 Panthers and allowed just four hits to get his team a 7-3 win and knock Pekin from atop the SEISC north division standings. With two runs across in the inning already, Pekin loaded the bases in the bottom of the seventh for Zach Mosbey ? a .506 hitter and the

PACKWOOD ? For the first three and a half innings of Monday night?s weighty Southeast Iowa Super Conference North Division softball game, Highland clung to a 1-0 lead. But behind Dominique Tolle?s key single, senior Mycaela Crouse?s long solo home run, several Husky errors and a sparkling pitching performance by starter Mackenzie Laux, 10th-ranked Pekin scored five unanswered runs to rally for a 5-1 win.Pekin