Jefferson Softball

Fowler makes it back to spark J-Hawks

Jefferson’s Savannah Fowler is finally getting to savor her senior softball season.

She’s been on the team since the eighth grade, but this was to be her first year as a starter. The last two she was used exclusively as a fleet-footed pinch runner.

But in the third game of the season she was smacked on the left side of the face by a thrown ball as she was beating out a hit at first base. The spindly, spunky outfielder still finished both games of the doubleheader before going to the hospital to find her jaw was broken in two places.

Her mouth has been wired shut until she returned to the lineup this past weekend.

And on the J-Hawks’ Senior Night Thursday she collected a hit in each game and drove in a run to help Jefferson (30-5, 21-3 MVC) sweep Kennedy, 5-0 and 7-0.

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Prairie pops back into softball rankings

Cedar Rapids Prairie returned to the Class 5A softball rankings Thursday in the No. 10 spot, according to the Iowa Girls High School Athletic Union.

The Hawks were ranked 8th, 9th or 10th in the first four polls this season before dropping out last week.

Cedar Rapids Jefferson dropped two spots to No. 6 in Class 5A. The Xavier Saints remained fifth in the Class 4A rankings.

Johnston is ranked No. 1 in Class 5A and Dallas Center-Grimes is No. 1 in Class 4A.

CLASS 5A

1. Johnston (27-2), 2. Dowling (23-8), 3. West Des Moines Valley (22-8), 4. Southeast Polk (24-9), 5. Muscatine (30-3), 6. Jefferson (28-5), 7. Iowa City West (24-7), 8. Pleasant Valley (21-6), 9. Waukee (19-12), 10. Prairie (23-9).

CLASS 4A

1. Dallas Center-Grimes (30-1), 2. Fort Dodge (27-7), 3. Solon (31-1), 4. Carlisle (26-2), 5. Xavier (25-5), 6. Ballard (23-5), 7. Davenport Assumption (26-9), 8. West Delaware (25-5), 9. Fairfield (23-6), 10. Oskaloosa (26-3), 11. Norwalk (22-10), 12. Keokuk (21-10), 13. Indianola (17-10), 14. Waverly-Shell Rock (26-6), 15. North Scott (16-9).

No. 4 J-Hawks net pair of shutouts

Alyssa Olson and Alissa Good tossed shutouts Tuesday night as No. 4 Jefferson swept a Mississippi Valley Conference twinbill from Iowa City High, 10-0 in six innings and 6-0, at Niemeyer Field.

Olson raised her record to 14-4 in the 10-0 victory. Hannah Towns was 3-for-4 and drove in two runs. Kennedy Dighton was 2-for-4 with two RBIs. Avery Guy also had two hits.

Good raised her mark to 12-1 in the nightcap. Guy and Katelyn Holub were 2-for-3. Tori Brandon drove in two runs.

The J-Hawks raised their record to 28-5.

No.4 J-Hawks split games at Classic

Alyssa Olson tossed a shutout with 11 strikeouts as No.5 Jefferson blanked Mediapolis, 9-0, Saturday at the Jefferson Softball Classic.

Emily Walton had a two-run double for the J-Hawks.

Jefferson lost its other game in the tournament to New London, 1-0, in eight innings. Maddie Hansen had two hits for the J-Hawks.

The split left Jefferson with a 26-5 record.