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The Red Oak Express All-Area Softball Team

P Ailey Wahlert, Freshman, GriswoldWent 15-5 with .255 ERA and 146 strikeouts in circle while hitting .413 with 37 RBIs. IF Cloe Brown, Senior, East MillsBatted .288, drove in 10 runs and stole 22 bases for Wolverines this season. IF Marissa Askeland, Senior, GriswoldHit a team-high .424 with 10...

The Red Oak Express All-Area Baseball Team

P Gavin Ford, Senior, StantonWent 6-4 with 3.21 ERA and 63 strikeouts in 48 innings this season; hit .302 at the plate. IF Walker Bissell, Sophomore, Southwest ValleyHit .431, drove in team-high 35 runs and belted six doubles. IF Ryan Sayers, Senior, East MillsBatted .339 while driving in team-best...

Viqueens’ season ends one win short of state

Stanton’s late season surge and its season came to a hard-hitting, state rated Riverside squad in the Class 1A regional finals last Monday.The Bulldogs collected 11 hits – seven for extra bases – and wore down the Viqueens in an 11-1 victory to punch their ticket to the Iowa State Softball...

Three Tigers on All-Hawkeye 10 second teams

Red Oak’s Brett Erickson, Carson Roeder and Alexis Joint were named to the All-Hawkeye 10 Conference Baseball and Softball teams released last week.Erickson and Roeder were selected for the all-conference baseball second team. Roeder, the Tigers’ catcher, hit a team-best .371 while driving in 13...

Titans end Tigers’ season in regionals

Council Bluffs Lewis Central defeated Red Oak 10-1 in the Class 4A, Region 2 opening round Thursday at Iowa Western Community College.The Titans (30-9) collected seven hits, including a solo home run from Aubree Davis in the first inning in the victory over the Tigers.Mackenzie Nailor and Cami...

Stanton punches ticket to regional finals

Stanton’s postseason revenge tour improved to 3-0 with an 11-2 win over Lenox in the Class 1A, Region 6 semifinals Friday on the road in Lenox.After avenging regular season losses to East Union and Fremont-Mills in its previous two regional matchups, the Viqueens were fired up from the start...

Trojans hold on in 7-5 win over Red Oak

Atlantic built a 7-2 lead after six innings and blocked a late Red Oak comeback attempt in a 7-5 loss in Hawkeye 10 Conference baseball last Thursday.The Tigers (11-16 overall, 5-15 in the conference) scored three runs over the final two innings. That’s where the comeback ended.“We did not play...

Tigers down East Mills, 14-6

Mhylee Joint went 2-for-3 and drove in a run at the plate and picked up the win in the circle for Red Oak in a 14-6 victory over East Mills in non-conference softball last Tuesday.Joint scattered five hits and four earned runs while striking out six and walking five in the win for the Tigers (3-23...

Vikings blank Tigers in district opener

Stanton plated all of its runs in the fourth inning and Gavin Ford tossed a complete-game shutout on the mound in a 4-0 victory over Griswold in the Class 1A, District 13 first round in Audubon Saturday.Ford was dominant on the mound, scattering six hits and striking out 11 without surrendering a...

Tigers split pair at own tournament

The Red Oak softball team went 1-1 at its own Red Oak Softball Invitational Saturday. The Tigers (3-21 overall, 0-15 in the Hawkeye 10 Conference) picked up a 13-8 win over Essex and dropped a 9-5 decision to Stanton in their capper.Against Essex, Mhylee Joint scattered five hits and struck out...