Washington High School - Cedar Rapids, Iowa

Warriors notch 1st win

WEST UNION - Washington notched its first win of the season Saturday at the North Fayette softball tournament.

The Warriors (1-6) beat MFL MarMac, 8-1. Payton Bruner had two doubles and Caiti Peterson doubled. Both scored twice.

Bruner also was the winning pitcher, scattering six hits and striking out seven.

The Warriors lost their second game Saturday, 3-2, to Maquoketa Valley.

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No-no doubt Wash is better ballclub

Tony Lombardi is trying to keep it simple.

His Washington Warriors baseball team has starters ranging from an eighth-grader (his son Rocky) to a possible soon-to-be professional baseball player (A.J. Puk) and several others in-between.

“I am really proud of these kids, they have come a long way,” Lombardi said after his team’s sweep of Cedar Rapids Jefferson on Friday night at Jefferson. “Our goal is to come out here and be the kind of team you have to beat. That was not our moniker a year ago.”

Lombardi has liked what he has seen so far. Friday’s 7-1 and 6-3 wins over the J-Hawks have Washington off to a 5-1 start.

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Warrior pair falls in state finals

Cedar Rapids Washington’s Rina Moore and Lilly Hartman knew they had a tough task when they faced the top-seeded doubles team from Urbandale in Friday afternoon’s Class 2A state  championship.

Madeline Heer and Michelle Van Roekel, after all, had a perfect 17-0 record this season.  In the two years they’ve played the together, the two seniors were 32-1. Their only blemish came in last season’s state tournament when they lost to the eventual state champs from Ames in a semifinal match.

To advance into Friday’s finals at the Veterans Memorial Tennis Center, the Urbandale duo had dispatched an Ames tandem that still had one of the girls from the title team.

“We’d watched them and knew they were very good,” said Hartman.

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Early goal dooms Wash in state soccer

DES MOINES – Top-seeded Iowa City West isn’t a team that needs many breaks.

The Trojans have speed, power and skill and in Thursday’s Class 3A state quarterfinal match-up with Cedar Rapids Washington, they got an early break that set the tone for the entire match.

West’s  Mueng Sunday broke loose in the penalty area and was taken down just 51 seconds into play. Ben Troester then stepped up and banged the free kick past Washington keeper Gunnar Lenzen. The Trojans added two more first-half goals and went on to a 3-0 victory over the Warriors at the Cownie Soccer Complex.

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