Fairfield News

PACKWOOD ? Pekin got in, hit the cover off the ball, and got out.And they made it quick.The Panthers pounded out 30 hits as part of a doubleheader sweep of Winfield Mount-Union Monday night that didn?t even last a total of nine innings. Pekin won a 14-1, five-inning opener before taking just four innings to win the nightcap by a score of 15-0.To set the tone early, Trenton Northup blasted a monster home run to

FORT MADISON ? Wins and losses don?t always tell the whole story, and two losses to Mount Pleasant late last week had Fairfield head coach Josh Allison feeling better than Monday?s split at Fort Madison.The Trojans started strong to win the opener by a score of 10-5 before that score was flipped and Fort Madison (4-13, 2-4 SEC) took a 10-5 victory in the nightcap.?In the first game, we played with enthusiasm,

WASHINGTON ? Washington head baseball coach Nathan Miller has been preaching to his players to hit the first good pitch they see and not wait for strike one.His Demons did just that last night, belting four hits and scoring three runs in the first inning of the first game of a Southeast Conference doubleheader with Fairfield. Washington went on to win the game 8-1.Junior Anthony Ossman lined the first pitch he saw

WASHINGTON ? Washington sophomore Lauren Vittetoe hadn?t had a base hit all night, and was 0-for-3 at the plate.But her drive to the left-field fence in the third inning of the second game of a Southeast Conference softball doubleheader with Fairfield drove in two runs and proved to be the game-winner as the Demons won a rain-shortened contest 3-1 in five innings. No. 12 Washington won the opening game 5-2.?I don?t

GRIMES ? Weather abbreviated Pekin?s day at the Dallas Center-Grimes Invitational Saturday, but the Panthers played their way to a two-game split.Field conditions switched Pekin?s opening game to a contest vs. Grinnell, which it won 5-2 before falling 4-0 to the host Mustangs.In the second game, DC-G became the first team all year to get the best of Panther pitcher Mackenzie Laux and handed out her first loss in 11

Cardinal 14, Holy Trinity 4ELDON ? The Cardinal bats teed off on another SEISC south division opponent Tuesday night.In five innings, the Comets picked up a 14-4 win over Holy Trinity at home.Cory Campbell continued her hot hitting going 4-4 with three extra base hits, crossed the plate all four times and drove in two more. Sarah Greiner was 2-2 with two RBI?s, Felisha Durflinger was 3-4 with a double and

PACKWOOD ? A combined 20 hits, 21 runs and 13 errors all culminated in one perfect, even number for Pekin pitcher Mycaela Crouse.Now in her fifth season in black and red, Crouse picked up career win No. 100 on her home diamond Tuesday night in an anything-but-pretty 14-7 Panther victory over IMS.?There?s been a lot of memories, a lot of hard work, but mostly, it?s been a lot of fun,? Crouse said after the game.The

Two final-inning chances to win games came up for Fairfield in Monday?s Southeast Conference opening doublheader vs. Fort Madison.The first, it let slip by.The second, the Trojans made it look easy. After falling 7-5 in the opener, Cody Moran drew a bases loaded walk-off base on balls for the winning RBI to give Fairfield the 5-4 victory in the nightcap and a doubleheader split.In game one, a spectacular

RIVERSIDE ? In recent years, the SEISC north division title has gone through Pekin and Highland.After beating each other on their own home fields a season ago, tenth-ranked Pekin took one big leap towards defending its conference crown duking out a 2-1 victory on the road against the Huskies Tuesday night.?We were both 4-0 going in, and that?s the way it usually is,? said Pekin head coach Bryan Marlay. ?It?s going

All-state pitcher Morgan Louck put the Fairfield bats on ice from her first hurl towards the plate, and the Trojans never warmed back up.Class 3A fifth-ranked Fort Madison held Fairfield to one run on nine hits in two games Monday night as the Bloodhounds swept the Southeast Conference doubleheader with 13-1 and 6-0 victories to stay in the early title race. Meanwhile, Fairfield dropped to 0-4 to begin the SEC

IOWA CITY ? After finding themselves on the wrong end of a two-out rally that resulted in an extra-inning loss to Washington Thursday night, the Fairfield softball team took notes and turned it around on Linn-Mar.The Trojans scored three runs in the top of the seventh to win a 7-5 game to open the night at the Iowa City West Tournament before splitting the evening with a 10-4 loss to Mid-Prairie.With two outs in

ALBIA ? The last time the Pekin baseball team was on the field, it faced a one-run seventh-inning deficit with three seniors coming to the plate.Those three seniors were retired in order and the Panthers were handed a 6-5 loss to Washington.In Albia two nights later, Trenton Northup, Brady Lamb and Zach Mosbey found themselves in an eerily similar situation, but this time, they won the game for Pekin. Following a