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Northwest Iowa — The Lakes Conference All-Conference Softball Teams have been released and Western Christian landed three players on the first team. They include Catcher Kelsie Van’t Hul, infielder Jamie Gesink and outfielder Kylie Van’t Hul. This years coach of the year is Rachel Gerking of conference champ Spirit Lake.

1st Team All-Conference
*Unanimous

Pitcher
1.Bailee Newman* – Spirit Lake
2.Carson Gjerde* – ELC
3.Lindsay Williams* – Cherokee

Catcher
1. Whitlee Reitz* – Spirit Lake
2. Kelsie Van’t Hul* – Western Christian

Infield
1.Mackenzie Thate* – Spirit Lake
2.Megan Jensen* – ELC
3.Jamie Gesink* – Western Christian
4.Emily Haselhoff – Cherokee
5.Sarah Simington – Emmetsburg
6.Holly Schneider – LeMars
7.Karis Rhode – Spencer

Outfield
1.Caitlyn Roberts* – Spirit Lake
2.Paige Petersen – Spirit Lake
3.Brookelyn Hoeppner – Cherokee
4.Kylie Van’t Hul – Western Christian

Utility
1.Josie Fagen – Spirit Lake
2.Alysaa Friesner – ELC
3.Christina Konz – LeMars

2nd Team All-Conference

Pitcher
1.Hali Noll – Emmetsburg

Catcher
1.Lindsey Jensen – ELC

Infielders
1.Carly Ites – Spirit Lake
2.Kailee Jenessa – Spirit Lake
3.Caitlyn Clayton – ELC
4.Kaely Hummel – Cherokee
5.Kenzie Bousema – Western Christian

Outfielders
1.Morgan White – ELC
2.Payton Slaughter – Cherokee
3.Ashley Overberg – Emmetsburg

Utility
1.Maddie Riechter – Spirit Lake

Conference Coach of the Year: Rachel Gerking – Spirit Lake

Hull, Iowa — The West Lyon Wildcats shutout the Sibley-Ocheyedan Generals 10-0 in Hull on Saturday night in Class 2A District 2 Quarterfinal baseball.

West Lyon got on the scoreboard in the 2nd inning after Mitch Te Slaa walked, advanced to second on the sacrifice bunt by Isaac Heyer, and was ultimately driven in 2 batters later by Tanner Oleson’s hit to left field. Dylan Whalen would reach on a walk, then Jordan Van Beek would drive in both Oleson and Whalen to push to the score to 3-0. The 2nd inning would end with West Lyon ahead 4-0. The Wildcats would add four more in the bottom of the 3rd, another run in the fourth, and finish things off in the sixth with a walk off error on a ball put in play by Whalen as Oleson came into score for the 10-0 final.

Dylan Whalen took the win with a complete game shut out, with 8 strikeouts, only walking 2, and giving up 2 hits.

Trent Kruger took the loss going 2 innings, giving up 4 hits, walked 5, struck-out 3, and gave up 3 earned runs. Jameson Cosgrove came on in relief in the 3rd inning. In 2 innings of work Cosgrove gave up 4 hits, walked 3 batters, while striking out 2, adding 4 runs to his name. In the 5th inning Brady Meinders came into the game to pitch, he went 1 2/3 innings. He walked 3 and struck out 2.

The West Lyon Wildcats improve to 10-10 on the season, and will face Western Christian in Hull on Tuesday, July 14th.

Sibley Ocheyedan ends the season at 5-18.

Boyden, Iowa — The Boyden-Hull/Rock Valley Nighthawks would play small ball in the first inning for a quick score, and never looked back while CJ Van Der Zwaag shut out the Warriors of Sergeant Bluff-Luton 6-0 at Centennial Park Friday night.

Cassie Van Beek started the bottom of the first inning with a lead off bunt. Van Beek would steal 2nd, advance to 3rd on Kaitlyn Kerr’s sacrifice bunt, and ultimately come into score on the Courtney Schafer sacrifice bunt. In the 2nd inning Boyden-Hull/Rock Valley would add 4 more runs. Kaitlyn Van Der Zwaag would double down the 3rd base line, Taylor Richter would bunt, reach first base after a Warrior error, while aggressive running by pinch-runner Emily De Ruyter came in to score from 2nd. Four batters later with 2 runners on, Cassie Van Beek would lift one deep to left for the 3-run homer making it 5-0 after 2. The Nighthawks would add one more run in the 5th inning and go on to win 6-0 over Sergeant Bluff-Luton.

Sergeant Bluff-Luton’s Terri Deitloff would take the loss in 6 innings of work, giving up 8 hits, walking 2, with 2 strikeouts and earning 3 runs.

Nighthawk pitcher CJ Van Der Zwaag would get the win with the complete game shut-out, giving up just 3 hits in the contest.

Boyden-Hull/Rock Valley improves to 30-3 on the season and will play Spirit Lake Monday night in the Region Final in Sheldon. Spirit Lake advanced with a 6-2 win over Cherokee in the upper bracket semi final.

Sergeant Bluff-Luton ends the season at 22-15.