The Mid-Prairie baseball and softball teams took care of business Tuesday when they hosted Monticello for single River Valley Conference contests. The Golden Hawk softball team scored their second win of the year, taking down the Panthers 3-2 in walk-off fashion. Pitching controlled most of the game with no score until the bottom of the fifth. Dawsyn Miller led off that frame with a walk, advanced around the diamond on a couple of ground outs before scoring on a wild pitch to make it 1-0 Mid-Prairie. Monticello broke through in the top of the sixth with two runs when Keziah McQuillen came up with an RBI ground out. Down to their final three outs and trailing 2-1, Mid-Prairie came alive at the plate in the seventh. Landry Pacha led off the inning with a single. With one away and Pacha at first, Katelyn Schneider drove a triple to deep right centerfield that tied the game and left the Hawks with the winning run just 60 feet away. The next batter, Brittny Kinsinger would send the fans h
The Mid-Prairie baseball and softball teams are back on the diamond Thursday when they welcome the Camanche Indians for single River Valley Conference contests. The Golden Hawk baseball team is 4-1 on the year after splitting a doubleheader with No. 7 Durant on Tuesday at Paul N. Bailey Field. The Golden Hawks are ranked No. 4 in class 2A in the first poll of the season from the Iowa Baseball Coaches Association. On the year, the Hawks are hitting .364 as a team and have an overall ERA of 2.26. Individual leaders at the plate are Cain Brown and Aidan Rath each at .500. Rath has nine RBI, three homers and seven runs scored. On the mound, Alex Bean, Rath and Brown are all at 1-0. Bean and Brown have yet to give up a run.