Prairie Baseball

Prairie salvages split with City High

It wasn’t as if there was a full moon Friday night.

In fact, the moon was but a sliver as the Prairie and Iowa City High baseball teams played for more than three hours in one of the wackiest games you’d ever see.

The second game of their Mississippi Valley Conference doubleheader had everything, in abundance: Passed balls and wild pitches, overthrown bases, a crucial balk, hit batters, lots or errors and hits galore.

Prairie finally won it, 11-10, after doing its best to give it away.

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Schebler enjoys red-hot streak with Quakes

The manager of the Rancho Cucamonga Quakes in the California League called Scott Schebler into his office at the beginning of the season and gave him some disturbing news.

Carlos Subero, the skipper, bluntly told Schebler he did not consider him an everyday player for the Quakes and planned to put him toward the bottom of the batting order when he got into games.

Schebler was deeply offended.

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No.7 Prairie splits at Dubuque Senior

DUBUQUE -- The seventh-ranked Cedar Rapids Prairie baseball team suffered a costly split at Dubuque Senior on Wednesday.

The Hawks won the first game, 8-3. Dubuque Senior captured the nightcap, 3-0.

The split dropped Prairie to 15-7 in the Valley Division of the Mississippi Valley Conference, a full game behind Linn-Mar (16-6) in the race for the division title with four games left.

Tyler Butz went 3-for-4 with a double and two RBIs in the opener for Prairie (21-11 overall). Caleb Davison, Tyler Votroubek and Ty Mougin had two hits. Davison drove in two runs.

Mitch Adams pitched six innings for the victory.

Prairie collected only three singles in the nightcap. Sam Noel pitched the shutout for Dubuque Senior.

GAME 1

PRAIRIE (8): Mougin, ss, 5 0 2 1, Hammer, rf, 3 1 1 0, Butz, 3b, 4 2 3 2, Votroubek, 1b, 4 2 2 1, Beckman, dh, 2 0 0 0, Stallman, ph, 1 0 0 0, Davison, lf, 3 1 2 2, Peters, cf, 4 0 0 0, Day, c, 3 0 1 0, Becker, 2b, 4 2 1 0. Totals 33 8 12 6.

DUBUQUE SENIOR (3): Janes, c, 2 1 1 1, Blake, 2b/ss, 3 0 2 0, Noel, ss, 3 0 0 1, Zelinskas, 2b, 1 0 0 0, Somerville, 3b, 3 0 1 0, Clemens, rf, 3 0 0 0, Grant, cf, 4 0 1 0, Bradley, dh, 3 2 1 0, Troy, lf, 1 0 0 1, Merritt, ph, 1 0 1 0, Schueler, 1b/lf, 2 0 0 0. Totals 26 3 7 3.

Prairie         300 021 2 - 8 12 1

Dubuque Senior  001 101 0 - 3 7 2

Prairie up to No.7 in baseball rankings

Prairie moved up one spot to No.7 in this week's Iowa High School Baseball Coaches Association Class 4A rankings released Monday.

Xavier held onto the No.10 spot.

Ankeny is ranked No.1 in Class 4A and Sioux City Heelan tops Class 3A.

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