Adrian-Ellsworth wins twice on baseball diamond, faces MCC next
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The Adrian-Ellsworth Dragons advanced to the Section 3A South Section baseball tournament title game with a pair of wins Saturday.
The Dragons, the tourney's No. 2 seed, scored seven runs in the second — after their first two batters were retired to start the inning — and Matt Geisler fired a one-hit shutout as A-E blanked third-seeded Russell-Tyler-Ruthton 8-0 to move on to a match with No. 1 seed Murray County Central scheduled for 7 p.m. Tuesday night at the Irish Yard in Milroy.
Earlier in the day, the Dragons spotted Edgerton/Southwest Minnesota Christian a 2-0 first-inning lead and then answered with four runs without the benefit of a hit in the bottom of the first. The Dragons added one more run in the second and then held on for a 5-4 triumph. Travis Weiss tossed a complete-game four-hitter in the victory.
In Section 3AA softball on Saturday, Jackson County Central exploded for 10 runs in the first inning and wound up pounding New London-Spicer in four innings,15-0. Miley VanDeVere's three-run homer was the biggest hit in that big first.
The top-seeded Huskies will face Morris Area/Chokio-Alberta at 5 p.m. Tuesday in Marshall in a sectional semifinal. That winner will meet the elimination bracket victor for the championship on Thursday.
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Boys and girls from the Sibley-Ocheyedan High School track and field program competed Thursday, Friday and Saturday at the Iowa state meet at Drake University in Des Moines.
Two Generals ended up finishing as state Class A runners-up at the meet. Junior Luke Heilman came in second in the 110-meter hurdles with a time of 14.55 seconds, just .01 of a second behind the winner. Senior Tate Marco, competing in the 400-meter hurdles, crossed the finish line in the finals in a time of 53.79 seconds — also just .01 of a second out of the top spot.
Other placers for Sibley-Ocheyedan at state include junior Gage Greenfield, who was sixth in the shot put, and senior Dominic Marco, who came in eighth in the 100 meters. Sophomore Aleah Marco also placed 22nd in the 1500 meters.
Among other results for the Generals' boys were: the 4x200 meter relay team, seventh place; the 4x400 relay team, eighth place; and the 800-meter sprint relay team, 12th place.
The Sibley-Ocheyedan boys finished 11th in the team standings.
