Area Sports
Mount Ayr beats Essex
Advances in postseason By Ryan Stonebraker MOUNT AYR, Iowa — The Mount Ayr baseball team made short work out of its first round Class 1A district foe last Friday, beating the Essex Trojans 19-0 in four innings. The Raiders improved to 12-7 overall and hosted SW Valley on Tuesday night in the next round (results…
Read MoreRaiderettes Beat SW Valley To Win 12th Game
Postseason Starts This Week By Ryan Stonebraker CORNING, Iowa — The Raiderette softball team enters the postseason with 12 wins under their belt. This comes after a 19-1 win at SW Valley on June 29 to sweep the season series between the two schools. In the other game of the week, Mount Ayr fell to state…
Read MoreRaiders win two of three games On the verge of 10-win season
By RYAN STONEBRAKER MOUNT AYR, Iowa — The Mount Ayr baseball team picked up two wins in three games last week to capture win number eight and nine on the season. The Raiders won conference games over East Union and Nodaway Valley decisively, by scores of 11-0 and 11-1. The other game was a tough…
Read MoreRaiderettes pick up a pair of conference wins
By RYAN STONEBRAKER LIBERTY CENTER, Iowa — The Mount Ayr softball team won two of the three games they played in last week. The Raiderettes improved to 8-5 overall and 5-3 in the Pride of Iowa Conference. The Raiderettes are a half-game back of Martensdale-St. Mary’s in the conference standings going into this week. The week ended…
Read MoreRaiders fall to top ranked Blue Devils, 8-3
By RYAN STONEBRAKER MOUNT AYR, Iowa — The first meeting with the top ranked Martensdale-St. Mary’s Blue Devils this season went to the visiting team in an 8-3 loss last week for the Raiders. The Blue Devils outscored Mount Ayr 7-0 from the second to the fifth innings to build a lead that was too…
Read MoreRaiders rebound from first loss
By RYAN STONEBRAKER CORYDON, Iowa — The first loss of a season stings, but it is what you do with it that tells how a team is built. After falling to top-ranked Class 1A Martensdale-St. Marys earlier in the week, the Raider baseball team got back on the winning ways with a big 10-5 road…
Read MoreUpset City!
By RYAN STONEBRAKER MOUNT AYR, Iowa — It was a strange but good week for the Mount Ayr softball team as they had two games played against state ranked teams, and two games wiped out due to weather. Mount Ayr was to play Murray on Monday, June 8 and play SW Valley on June 11…
Read MoreRaiderettes play two at Murray Tournament
By RYAN STONEBRAKER MURRAY, Iowa — The Raiderette softball team traveled to Murray on Saturday to play in the 46th annual Murray softball tournament. Mount Ayr played in two games, winning one. The victory set Mount Ayr’s record at 4-3 through seven games. The Raideretttes beat East Union 6-0 and lost to Murray 6-2. Mount Ayr hosted Murray…
Read MoreRaiders still on top of POI
By RYAN STONEBRAKER LENOX, Iowa — The Mount Ayr baseball team picked up a big Pride of Iowa Conference road win last week, when they beat Lenox 6-5. The victory kept the Raiders unbeaten in the POI standings with top ranked Class 1A Martensdale-St. Mary’s. The Raiders hosted MTSM on Tuesday (results were not available as…
Read MoreTwo Games, Two Wins For Mount Ayr Softball Team
By RYAN STONEBRAKER MOUNT AYR, Iowa — The Raiderettes softball team picked up two wins in three days last week before playing in the Murray Tournament last weekend. Mount Ayr beat Lamoni 7-5 and Lenox 10-5 to improve to 4-2 in six games. The Raiderettes would beat Lamoni 7-5 after leading the entire game in the…
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