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If it?s looked as if T.J. Rausch has been playing like a man possessed this postseason ? where he?s batted .600 in Washington?s three wins ? it?s because he has been. He?s been possessed by the goal to get to the state tournament.Rausch suffered a tear in the anterior cruciate ligament in his left knee during the Demons? fifth game last summer, and was forced to sit and watch as his teammates reached the ...

Usually, Washington head baseball coach Nathan Miller doesn?t mind being the underdog.But with the way his Demons have been playing over the final four weeks of the season, winning 14 of their final 20 games, even he feels his team is better than the No. 8 seed it received for this week?s Class 3A state tournament.?We?re not really viewing ourselves as an eight seed,? Miller said. ?We?re a little bit better ...

The Washington Demon softball team posted a 5 - 2 win over Carlisle Tuesday afternoon in the first round of the State Softball Tournament.Earlier Tuesday, Mid-Prairie lost their game against Ballard by a score of 5 - 4.See the Wednesday, July 18 edition of the Washington Evening Journal for details.

Eight Highland softball players received all-conference honors when the Southeast Iowa Super Conference North Division teams were released on Wednesday. The Huskies won the SEISC North title this year, finishing with a 14-4 mark in league play.Senior Mariah Freel and juniors Kassie Vazquez and Paige Wieland were selected to the North Division first team.Freel, the Huskies? ace pitcher, was selected to the first ...

The Golden Hawks are hoping the third time is a charm as they head to the state softball tournament in Fort Dodge next week.Fourth-ranked Mid-Prairie (30-11), which is heading to the state tournament for the third-straight year and sixth time in the last eight years, has its sights set on the tournament?s top prize next week.?They want the whole thing, for sure,? Mid-Prairie head coach Justin Lutjen said. ...

The first ? and only other ? time the Washington softball team went to the state tournament in 1997, the Demons lost to top-ranked Carlisle 1-0 in nine innings in a Class 2A quarterfinal game that was one of the longest in state history up to that point.Ironically, the Demons will meet Carlisle again in Tuesday?s Class 4A state quarterfinal at Rogers Sports Complex in Fort Dodge. But don?t expect this meeting ...

Washington first baseman Lauren Vittetoe almost didn?t go out for her senior season of softball.Vittetoe signed a letter of intent to play basketball at AIB College of Business in Des Moines last November, and wanted to get a jump start on her college basketball career this summer. So she almost decided to spend her summer in the gym instead of on the softball diamond with her longtime teammates.But now that ...

Lisbon pitchers Marshall Morgan and Connor Woodward combined to allow just one hit as the sixth-ranked Lions defeated IMS 8-0 in Thursday?s Class 1A district semifinal at Highland High School.Morgan started and did not allow a hit over five innings. He struck out three batters and walked one. Woodward allowed just one hit while throwing two innings of shutout relief. He struck out one batter and did not issue a ...