Marion High School - Marion, Iowa

Eivins' hit lifts J-Hawks past Marion, 8-7

Tue - 16 Jul Written by Metro Sports Report

Jared Eivins' two-run single in the bottom of the seventh inning lifted Jefferson past Marion, 8-7, Tuesday night in a non-conference baseball game at the J-Hawk diamond.

Jefferson (12-27) won the game despite committing seven errors.

The J-Hawks play at Iowa City West (31-7) in the Class 4A substate tournament quarterfinals Friday night at 7.

Marion (18-18) plays Davenport Assumption in the Class 3A district semifinals Friday at Solon at 5 p.m.

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Marion drops Wamac twinbill to Solon

Mon - 15 Jul Written by Metro Sports Report

SOLON - The Marion Indians were swept by Solon, 6-2 and 4-3 in eight innings, in a Wamac Conference doubleheader at Solon Monday night.

Marion committed five errors in the first game. Solon led 3-2 heading into the bottom of the sixth inning, then scored three runs to break it open. Nick Connolly took the loss for the Indians, but allowed only two earned runs.

Alex Charipar, Gage Kray and David Kuhn had two hits for Marion in the opener.

Solon (27-11) won the nightcap when Elijah Kane was hit by a pitch with the bases loaded in the bottom of the eighth inning. Marion scored twice in the top of the seventh to tie the game, 3-3, on RBI base hits by Kray and Trevor Hardman.

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Last Updated on Monday, 15 July 2013 23:37

Marion pitcher Levi Lochner (26) throws during the first game of a doubleheader with Western Dubuque on Wednesday. Marion won the first game, 1-0, but Western Dubuque won the second, 3-2. (Photo by Ken Gilchrist)

Lochner tosses shutout for his grandpa

Wed - 10 Jul Written by Jim Ecker

Senior Night had special meaning for Marion High School southpaw Levi Lochner on Wednesday with his grandfather in the stands for the first time this season.

Don Lochner has been battling medical issues, but he made it to the ballpark and saw his grandson toss a three-hit shutout as the Indians blanked Western Dubuque, 1-0, in the first game of a Wamac Conference doubleheader.

Western Dubuque won the nightcap, 3-2.

Lochner was happy to put on a good performance for his grandfather.

"He's been in and out of hospice and nursing homes and stuff, so it was nice to have him up here for a game," said Lochner. "He always likes watching the team and everybody. I know he was happy to get out here."

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Last Updated on Wednesday, 10 July 2013 23:17

Marion pitcher Haley Vanourney fields a bunt by Prairie's Alyson O'Brian as Mallory Jones streaks home from third on Tuesday, July 9. She beat the throw to the Marion catcher to make the score 11-2. Prairie won the game, 12-2. (Photo by Margaret O'Banion)

Prairie knocks off Marion, 12-2

Tue - 09 Jul Written by Tom Fruehling

Pity the Marion softball girls.

They’re on a seven-game losing streak. One of their three pitchers is done for the season and another is suffering from a painful stress fracture.

And in their final regular-season game Tuesday night, they had a makeup date with the suddenly slugging Prairie Hawks from the powerful Mississippi Valley Conference.

Coming into the contest on Prairie's field, their records were reversed: Prairie 24-12, Marion 12-24.

The night before, Prairie shellacked Dubuque Hempstead, 13-1 and 13-2, in games cut short by the mercy rule.

And before the Marion varsity girls could take the field Tuesday, they watched their junior varsity team get shell-shocked in three innings.

All the signs were there for another blowout.

The Indians did make a game of it, for one inning anyway, until Prairie’s big bats unloaded for 10 runs in the next three innings.

But give the Marion girls credit. With their backs against the wall, they rallied to score twice in the fifth inning and forced the Hawks to take another at-bat in order to win, 12-2.

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Last Updated on Wednesday, 10 July 2013 00:47

Indians drop pair to No.1 Beckman

Fri - 05 Jul Written by Don Taylor

The Marion Indians hosted Class 2A top-ranked Dyersville Beckman in a Wamac Conference showdown Friday night and dropped both ends of the doubleheader, 10-1 and 11-7.

Game one saw Beckman (26-5, 23-3) dominate. The first four batters in the Trailblazer lineup accounted for 10 of their 13 hits, all of the runs and all but one of the team’s RBIs. Mitch Steger led the way for Beckman, going 4-4 and scoring five runs.

Quinn Cannoy led the Marion attack by going 2-for-3. Caleb Stekl got the lone Marion RBI on a single in the sixth.

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