Prairie High School - Cedar Rapids, Iowa

Prairie clips Washington Demons, 8-3

Natalie Rumer went 2-for-4 with a double and three RBIs Wednesday as Cedar Rapids Prairie defeated the Washington Demons, 8-3, in a non-conference softball game at Prairie.

Katie Kuch pitched a complete game for Prairie (26-12).

Halle Lueck scored three runs for the Hawks. Gabi Carter scored twice. Malia Gudenkauf, Brittney Lash and Olivia Usher had RBIs.

PRAIRIE (8): Lash, cf, 4 1 1 1, Lueck, lf, 3 3 1 0, Carter, 3b, 4 2 0 0, Rumer, dp, 4 0 2 3, Usher, rf, 3 0 0 1, Gudenkauf, 1b, 2 0 1 1, Kuch, p, 2 0 0 0, O'Brian, c, 1 0 0 0, Stecklein, 2b, 3 1 1 0, Moenk, ss, 0 0 0 0,

Thumann, cr, 0 1 0 0, Pipolo, pr, 0 0 0 0. Totals 26 8 6 6.

Washington    000 003 0 - 3 5 5

Prairie       003 302 x - 8 6 2

W - Kuch. 2B - Rumer, Gudenkauf.

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 knocks off Marion, 12-2

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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Big 1st innings propel Prairie to twin wins

Big first innings propelled Prairie to a pair of softball wins over Dubuque Hempstead Monday night at Prairie.

The Hawks scored 10 runs in the first inning of the opener en route to a 13-1 victory. They tallied nine times in the opening frame in the nightcap and rolled to a 13-2 win. The opener went four innings, the nightcap five.

Gabi Carter had four hits and drove in three runs in the doubleheader.  Brittney Lash had four hits and four RBIs.

Katie Kuch was the winning pitcher in both games.

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