By Doug Brenneman, JOURNAL Sports There was a festival of food at Washington High School Tuesday night when the Demons' softball team celebrated their Southeast Conference title season with a banquet.It was a season driven by a process that resulted in a successful campaign.?I can't say enough about the 2018 team,? Washington head coach Ben Obermann said. ?We talk a lot about focusing on the process and ...
By Doug Brenneman, JOURNAL Sports It is important for a favored team not to let an underdog get confidence.Iowa Mennonite School got the first batter of the baseball game on base with an error and two more subsequent batters against second-ranked and unbeaten Lisbon Tuesday in a Class 1A substate final at Dick Sojka Memorial Field in Washington, but the Lions kept them off the scoreboard, then banged out four ...
By Doug Brenneman, JOURNAL Sports It is important for a favored team not to let an underdog get confidence.Iowa Mennonite School got the first batter of the baseball game on base with an error and two more subsequent batters against second-ranked and unbeaten Lisbon Tuesday in a Class 1A substate final at Dick Sojka Memorial Field in Washington, but the Lions kept them off the scoreboard, then banged out four ...
By Doug Brenneman, JOURNAL Sports It has happened before. Every team's goal at the beginning of the year is a state title.The year was 2007 and Iowa Mennonite School won a state championship on the diamond.If the 2018 IMS baseball team is to have a chance at that accomplishment, they must achieve something that no other team has done this season ? score more runs in a game than the Lisbon Lions.Lisbon has ...
By Doug Brenneman, JOURNAL Sports NEW LONDON -- There is a set of train tracks that carry trains past the New London baseball field.Iowa Mennonite School's substitute assistant baseball coach Marcus Miller told his players whenever there's a train, good things happen for IMS.There must have been the biggest, baddest train in the world going past in the bottom of the seventh inning of Saturday's Iowa High ...
Samantha Schneider of Mt. Pleasant graduated on May 4, from Georgia State College. She received a master?s degree in sports medicine.Her parents, Bev and Bruce Schneider, attended the ceremony.
By Doug Brenneman, JOURNAL Sports Things were looking bleak for Washington High School Thursday in a Class 4A Region 5 softball game against Clear Creek-Amana Thursday in Oxford.At least to the casual observer, things were not looking good. Clear Creek-Amana got a hit on the first pitch they saw. The first four batters all got hits. The Clippers put three runs on the board with three consecutive hits in the ...
By Doug Brenneman, JOURNAL Sports FAIRFIELD -- Playoffs are demanding. Whether it is the opening round, the first round of state or the championship, it is the little things that can make the difference in the outcome of a baseball game.In a game with only five total hits, it was the little things that gave Iowa City Liberty a 3-1 victory over Wahington in an Iowa High School Athletic Association Class 3A ...
By Doug Brenneman, JOURNAL Sports NEWTON ? It was a classic softball game befitting the postseason. It was well played and well coached.Washington just came up on the short end of a 3-1 loss to 10th-ranked Newton in an Iowa Girls High School Athletic Union Class 4A regional semifinal.?We did not quite get the job done,? Washington coach Ben Obermann said. ?We had solid defensive play, we were solid in the ...
By Doug Brenneman, JOURNAL Sports ELDON -- The Class 1A District 10 baseball game at Cardinal High School Tuesday started at 5 p.m. and didn't finish until close to 8 p.m.It takes awhile for 28 hits, 10 walks, seven hit batters, five errors and four pitching changes to take place.At the end, Iowa Mennonite School came away with a 16-7 victory to improve its record to 14-9 and advances to play eighth-ranked ...
By Doug Brenneman, JOURNAL Sports Kiowa Keith, Jacob Hall, Erik Murphy and Landon Hinckley played their last home regular season baseball game for Washington High School Monday.It was an appropriate send-off as the Demons took a 1-0 lead in the first inning, then tacked on three more runs in the sixth for a 4-0 win over Center Point-Urbana.?All four of those guys contributed to what we did tonight and helped ...
By Doug Brenneman, JOURNAL Sports Teammates often form a bond that can last a lifetime.For Washington High School seniors Morgan Brinning and Megan Mitchell, any time spent with a teammate constitutes a great time and has been a lasting memory for them.Brinning and Mitchell played their last home game in their high school career Thursday.The two have accumulated so many memories in their careers as Demons ...
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