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Newspaper
Cedar Rapids Gazette
Location
Cedar Rapids, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jun 09, 1978
Page
18
Prairie beat Linn-Mar 6-5 in nine innings on Thursday. Prairie's winning rally came in the ninth after Kurt Tjelmand's triple and Scott Ollinger's sacrifice fly. Linn-Mar shortstop Mike Schuettpelz had three hits and two RBIs.
A long list of softball scores from Noelridge and surrounding courts shows many close games and blowouts. Notable results include St Andrews 12 over C.R. Welding 9, Vigortone 14 over Century-214 Life Investors 7, and Midwest 17 over Wiecko 6. The update also notes Thursday’s AP report on a boxing bout where Alberto Davila stopped Manny Vazquez in Calif.
Iowa City reports Jim Marshall, a top junior college sprinter from San Jose JC, signed a national letter of intent with Iowa. Coach Glenn Patton calls him the fastest sprint swimmer to enroll, with best times of 21.0 in the 50 free and 46.1 in the 100, both school records.
Kennedy ran past Iowa City West 11 to 1 in six innings as Kendra Goff collected three hits to spark a 6-1 record. The Cougars led 6-0 after three and added five more runs in the later frames.
C R Jefferson beat Dubuque Hempstead 11-7 in MVC softball opener at Jeff. Angie Rajtora Tracy Trosky and Jo Cerka each homered as Jeff improves to 5-2. Hempstead won the JV game 8-5.
Jeff breezes past Marion 9-1 as C.R. Jefferson blitzes the Huskies. Scott Ewert hits a home run, Randy Kern adds two hits for the J-Hawks. Players listed include Jefferson and Marion with Walker and West on mound.
NORTH ENGLISH The Knoll Ridge Country Club will hold three golf tournaments in June and July. The Mixed Two Ball is June 11, the Men's Invitational June 28, and the Men's Best Shot July 16 with 730 to 1100 am tee times. For reservations call 319 664 3700. SPRINGVILLE Lisbon tops Springville 5 4 in a high school game after scoring five in the first three innings. Rick Possehl had three hits including a double and Val Penney added two hits and two RBIs.
Crestwood defeated West Union North 8 to 3 as Darla Leinhard and Elaine Haskovec led with doubles. Polly Johnson doubled with 2 RBIs for North, and Dawn Mueller added three hits including a double. North drops to 2-2 while Crestwood improves to 3-?.
Monona Mel trounced Fayette 16 to 1 in prep baseball. Pat Bollman doubled and tripled with two RBI. Dan Vogt added two hits and three RBI, while Jim McCune collected two hits for the winners.
Norway improved to 14-5 by beating Deep River Millersburg 9-6. Kevin Kuester Al Erger Tim Brecht and Randy Brecht each ripped two hits. Ed Agnew homered for DRM and John Lacina recorded three hits.
Curt Hansen, winner of the 6th Falstaff 100, is among favorites for the Hawkeye Downs Friday night late model stock races. Hot laps at 7 30 pm with racing at 8. Hoff man, Horn, Sanger and Hoff man have won Downs features this year. Hoff man’s win came last week before 4 600 spectators.
Voelkers stars for C.R. Prairie as the sophomore baseball team defeated Vinton 12-6 on Thursday. Curt Voelkers blasted two doubles to pace the victory.
Prairie defeated Linn-Mar 12-1 in five innings with Sheila Lynch collecting a home run, a triple and five RBIs on three hits. Nancy Cisar added two hits for Prairie. Prairie also won the junior varsity game 15-7.
LaSalle edged Benton Community 3 to 2 in girls softball at LaSalle as Denise Gearhart, a pinch hitter, delivered the winning run with a single that scored Carrie Spaight who had two hits. Benton Community won the junior varsity game 5 to 4.
The Kennedy sophomore baseball team defeated Linn-Mar 13 to 3 on Thursday. The win extends Kennedy’s strong season run and demonstrates solid offense and pitching performance.
Decorah build a 5 3 win over North Winnesheik as Judy Casterton doubled with two hits helping the unbeaten Chargers improve to 4 1.
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