Ottumwa -- Indian Hills Community College has three players on the Iowa Community College Athletic Conference All-Region softball team. And IHCC coach Jim Overturf was named the Region XI Coach of the Year.
Sophomore first baseman Lizzy Tucker was the lone Indian Hills player named to the All-Region first team. Tucker led the Warriors in hits, RBIs, total bases, walks and on-base percentage while tying for the team lead in doubles, homers and sacrifice bunts.
Selected for the All-Region second team were outfielders Kris Penick, a sophomore, and freshman Tory Beaver. Penick led IHCC in hitting with a .336 batting average and in stolen bases with nine. Beaver ended the season with a .306 average, 27 runs scored and 29 RBIs.
It was the second straight All-Region selection for Penick who was also named to the second team last year.
Overturf led the Warriors to their first national tournament appearance in five years in his third season at IHCC. Indian Hills entered the postseason as the No. 4 seed in the region tournament and promptly won all three games they played in the tourney to seize the title.
The Warriors then won both games from Crowder College, the Missouri champ, in the district tournament to qualify for nationals. Indian Hills ended the year with a 33-24 record. Their two losses in the national tourney were against Yavapai College and Wallace State CC, teams that finished third and second in the nation, respectively.
Overturf picked up his 600th win as a head softball coach during the 2010 season and has 617 wins in a coaching career that also includes stints at William Penn and Kirkwood.
Wednesday, May 26, 2010
Monday, May 24, 2010
Warriors Drop Two at National Tourney
St. George, Utah -- The Indian Hills softball team got to see first-hand the strength of the teams that would go on to finish second and third at the NJCAA Division I National Championships. On the first day of the double-elimination tourney, the Warriors lost to Yavapai (AZ) College, 8-0, and Wallace State (AL) CC, 9-0.
Wallace State overcame a loss in their first game -- right before they defeated Indian Hills -- to make it all the way to the title game, where they were defeated by national champion Miami Dade. Yavapai wound up in third place.
Indian Hills' losses also came against the last two national champs before this year (Wallace State in 2008 and Yavapai last year) and against two pitchers who were both named to the all-tournament team in the '09 tourney.
Yavapai's Audrey Workman shut out IHCC for five innings in the opener and Wallace State's Kelsey Dennis blanked the Warriors for four innings.
It was a day in which the Warriors just couldn't generate any offense. They had only four hits in the first game, singles by Tory Beaver, Ryan Jehle, Kelly Ruepke and Lizzy Tucker.
Yavapai started the scoring with two-out solo homers by Danielle Muniz and Molly Brossart in the 1st inning. They added a run against IHCC starter Brandi Haight in the 4th. Sonja Holmes replaced Haight in the 5th and both runs scored in that inning were charged to Haight.
Holmes allowed three more runs in the 6th.
Indian Hills' only real scoring chance came in the 5th inning when, trailing 3-0, they loaded the bases with nobody out on two hits and an error. But Workman, the Yavapai pitcher, struck out three straight batters to get out of the jam. She had 11 Ks in five innings.
Wallace State pounded three home runs among their 11 hits in Indian Hills' second game in ending IHCC's season. Warriors' starter Kylee Coughlin gave up eight hits and seven runs in 2 1/3 innings and took the loss. Holmes allowed the other two runs.
The Warriors' lone hits were leadoff singles by Brittany Petersen in the 4th and Sarah Wilcox in the 5th.
Indian Hills finished the season with a 33-24 record. The national tournament appearance was their first in five years.
Wallace State overcame a loss in their first game -- right before they defeated Indian Hills -- to make it all the way to the title game, where they were defeated by national champion Miami Dade. Yavapai wound up in third place.
Indian Hills' losses also came against the last two national champs before this year (Wallace State in 2008 and Yavapai last year) and against two pitchers who were both named to the all-tournament team in the '09 tourney.
Yavapai's Audrey Workman shut out IHCC for five innings in the opener and Wallace State's Kelsey Dennis blanked the Warriors for four innings.
It was a day in which the Warriors just couldn't generate any offense. They had only four hits in the first game, singles by Tory Beaver, Ryan Jehle, Kelly Ruepke and Lizzy Tucker.
Yavapai started the scoring with two-out solo homers by Danielle Muniz and Molly Brossart in the 1st inning. They added a run against IHCC starter Brandi Haight in the 4th. Sonja Holmes replaced Haight in the 5th and both runs scored in that inning were charged to Haight.
Holmes allowed three more runs in the 6th.
Indian Hills' only real scoring chance came in the 5th inning when, trailing 3-0, they loaded the bases with nobody out on two hits and an error. But Workman, the Yavapai pitcher, struck out three straight batters to get out of the jam. She had 11 Ks in five innings.
Wallace State pounded three home runs among their 11 hits in Indian Hills' second game in ending IHCC's season. Warriors' starter Kylee Coughlin gave up eight hits and seven runs in 2 1/3 innings and took the loss. Holmes allowed the other two runs.
The Warriors' lone hits were leadoff singles by Brittany Petersen in the 4th and Sarah Wilcox in the 5th.
Indian Hills finished the season with a 33-24 record. The national tournament appearance was their first in five years.
Monday, May 17, 2010
Indian Hills Will Battle Yavapai in National Tourney
Ottumwa -- Indian Hills Community College will take on defending national champion Yavapai College from Arizona in the first round of the NJCAA Division I National Softball Championship this week in St. George, Utah.
The pairings for the 16-team event at the Canyons Softball Complex were released Sunday.
Indian Hills (33-22) was given the number-12 seed and will take on No. 5-seed Yavapai (50-14) at 11:00 a.m. Iowa time on Thursday. The winner will play the winner of the first-round game between Wallace State CC (AL) and John A. Logan CC (IL) at 8:00 p.m. The loser of the IHCC-Yavapai matchup will play the loser of that game at 5:30 p.m.
Wallace State won the national title in 2008 and lost to Yavapai in the championship game last year.
Seven of the 16 teams that qualified for last year’s national tourney return to the field this year. The top seed is Salt Lake CC (UT) which has a 59-3 record. They are also in Indian Hills’ bracket and will play Pitt CC (NC) in the opening round.
The other two teams in IHCC’s half of the draw are Seward County CC (KS) and Seminole State CC (OK).
The double-elimination national tournament runs through Saturday.
Indian Hills is making its first appearance in the national softball tourney since 2005.
All of the Indian Hills' games in the national tournament can be heard live on KMGO Radio (98.7 FM) and on the internet at www.kmgo.com.
The pairings for the 16-team event at the Canyons Softball Complex were released Sunday.
Indian Hills (33-22) was given the number-12 seed and will take on No. 5-seed Yavapai (50-14) at 11:00 a.m. Iowa time on Thursday. The winner will play the winner of the first-round game between Wallace State CC (AL) and John A. Logan CC (IL) at 8:00 p.m. The loser of the IHCC-Yavapai matchup will play the loser of that game at 5:30 p.m.
Wallace State won the national title in 2008 and lost to Yavapai in the championship game last year.
Seven of the 16 teams that qualified for last year’s national tourney return to the field this year. The top seed is Salt Lake CC (UT) which has a 59-3 record. They are also in Indian Hills’ bracket and will play Pitt CC (NC) in the opening round.
The other two teams in IHCC’s half of the draw are Seward County CC (KS) and Seminole State CC (OK).
The double-elimination national tournament runs through Saturday.
Indian Hills is making its first appearance in the national softball tourney since 2005.
All of the Indian Hills' games in the national tournament can be heard live on KMGO Radio (98.7 FM) and on the internet at www.kmgo.com.
Saturday, May 8, 2010
Two More Wins Put Warriors in National Tourney
Neosho, MO -- The Indian Hills Warriors' run through the postseason continued with back-to-back wins in the District K Tournament against Crowder College on Friday. The Warriors took the best-of-three series with 6-3 and 7-3 wins against Crowder in a battle between two region champions.
The district tourney win puts the Warriors in the NJCAA Division I National Tournament May 20-22 in St. George, Utah. It will be the first trip to the national tournament for IHCC since 2005.
Indian Hills got outstanding pitching performances in their three consecutive wins in the Region 11 tournament and that pattern continued against Crowder. Brandi Haight and Kylee Coughlin had strong outings and the IHCC offense backed them with 13 runs and 21 hits in the two games.
IHCC set the tone for the day in the top of the 1st inning of the first game of the tourney. Kris Penick led off with a walk. A single by Kelly Ruepke and a hit batter loaded the bases. Sarah Wilcox delivered a two-run single to give the Warriors the early lead. Wilcox had four hits in the game. Tory Beaver, who was hit by a pitch to set up the Wilcox two-RBI hit, was hit four times in the two games.
The IHCC lead doubled in the 4th when Jordan Grell singled home Wilcox and came all the way around to score on the play when Crowder committed two errors, one in the outfield and the second when they tried to get Grell at 3rd base.
Crowder scored two runs to cut the lead in half in the bottom of the 5th, but missed a chance to make it a big inning when they left the bases loaded.
The Warriors picked up two big insurance runs in the 7th. Lizzy Tucker's squeeze bunt brought home McKenzie Cason and Wilcox picked up her third RBI when she singled to drive in Ruepke.
Crowder scored a run in the 7th, but again left the bases loaded. They stranded eight baserunners in the final three innings.
Haight got her 14th pitching win of the season, allowing six hits and two earned runs with one walk and four strikeouts. Haight's final strikeout came on a called third strike to end the game. She retired 10 hitters in a row in one stretch.
Indian Hills again scored first in the second game, this time as the home team on the scoreboard.
Lizzy Tucker's two-run double off the center field fence chased home Cason and Ruepke, who had led off the 3rd inning with singles. After two outs, number-nine hitter Morgan Powers came up with a huge hit for Indian Hills, a two-out, two-strike single to center that scored two runs and made it 4-0.
Powers had two hits on the day giving her seven in five postseason games.
Crowder scored once against Coughlin in the 5th and picked up a couple more runs in the 7th, but saw their season end when the IHCC freshman pitcher got a ground ball to third base to end the contest.
Indian Hills added to their lead with single runs in their final three at-bats after their four-run 3rd.
Tucker drove in a run with a groundout in the 4th; Sydney Hallbauer's single brought home Ryan Jehle in the 5th; and Jehle had an RBI-single to score Tucker in the 6th.
Ruepke, Tucker and Jehle each had two hits in the second game for IHCC. Ruepke also had two hits in the opener and Grell also had two in game one to go along with Wilcox's four-hit game.
In game two, Coughlin gave up 11 hits, but only three runs. She walked only one batter.
For the second straight game, Crowder, the Region 16 champions, had lots of opportunities, but couldn't come up with the big hit. They left nine runners on in the second game to match their LOB total in the opener.
Indian Hills will take a 33-22 record into the national tourney. The pairings for the 16-team affair will be released at the start of next week.
The district tourney win puts the Warriors in the NJCAA Division I National Tournament May 20-22 in St. George, Utah. It will be the first trip to the national tournament for IHCC since 2005.
Indian Hills got outstanding pitching performances in their three consecutive wins in the Region 11 tournament and that pattern continued against Crowder. Brandi Haight and Kylee Coughlin had strong outings and the IHCC offense backed them with 13 runs and 21 hits in the two games.
IHCC set the tone for the day in the top of the 1st inning of the first game of the tourney. Kris Penick led off with a walk. A single by Kelly Ruepke and a hit batter loaded the bases. Sarah Wilcox delivered a two-run single to give the Warriors the early lead. Wilcox had four hits in the game. Tory Beaver, who was hit by a pitch to set up the Wilcox two-RBI hit, was hit four times in the two games.
The IHCC lead doubled in the 4th when Jordan Grell singled home Wilcox and came all the way around to score on the play when Crowder committed two errors, one in the outfield and the second when they tried to get Grell at 3rd base.
Crowder scored two runs to cut the lead in half in the bottom of the 5th, but missed a chance to make it a big inning when they left the bases loaded.
The Warriors picked up two big insurance runs in the 7th. Lizzy Tucker's squeeze bunt brought home McKenzie Cason and Wilcox picked up her third RBI when she singled to drive in Ruepke.
Crowder scored a run in the 7th, but again left the bases loaded. They stranded eight baserunners in the final three innings.
Haight got her 14th pitching win of the season, allowing six hits and two earned runs with one walk and four strikeouts. Haight's final strikeout came on a called third strike to end the game. She retired 10 hitters in a row in one stretch.
Indian Hills again scored first in the second game, this time as the home team on the scoreboard.
Lizzy Tucker's two-run double off the center field fence chased home Cason and Ruepke, who had led off the 3rd inning with singles. After two outs, number-nine hitter Morgan Powers came up with a huge hit for Indian Hills, a two-out, two-strike single to center that scored two runs and made it 4-0.
Powers had two hits on the day giving her seven in five postseason games.
Crowder scored once against Coughlin in the 5th and picked up a couple more runs in the 7th, but saw their season end when the IHCC freshman pitcher got a ground ball to third base to end the contest.
Indian Hills added to their lead with single runs in their final three at-bats after their four-run 3rd.
Tucker drove in a run with a groundout in the 4th; Sydney Hallbauer's single brought home Ryan Jehle in the 5th; and Jehle had an RBI-single to score Tucker in the 6th.
Ruepke, Tucker and Jehle each had two hits in the second game for IHCC. Ruepke also had two hits in the opener and Grell also had two in game one to go along with Wilcox's four-hit game.
In game two, Coughlin gave up 11 hits, but only three runs. She walked only one batter.
For the second straight game, Crowder, the Region 16 champions, had lots of opportunities, but couldn't come up with the big hit. They left nine runners on in the second game to match their LOB total in the opener.
Indian Hills will take a 33-22 record into the national tourney. The pairings for the 16-team affair will be released at the start of next week.
Monday, May 3, 2010
Clean Sweep; Warriors Take Region 11 Title
West Burlington, IA -- The Indian Hills softball team won three games against conference foes in the 2010 regular season. In the span of two days this weekend, the Warriors won that same number of games to win the Region 11 postseason tournament and advance to this week's district tournament.
Indian Hills, which entered the four-team region tourney as the number-four seed, completed their run through the tournament on Sunday with a 4-3 win against Muscatine CC to claim the championship.
Kylee Coughlin came out of the IHCC bullpen to save the game for starter Brandi Haight, who had given the Warriors 6 1/3 solid innings in her second win in as many days.
Of the two batters she faced, Coughlin got a groundout to second base and a popup to second baseman Kelly Ruepke to nail down the clinching victory. Coughlin did throw a wild pitch which allowed Muscatine to make it a one-run game, but she got the final out to preserve Haight's 13th win of the year.
Indian Hills snapped a 1-all tie with a three-run 6th inning. The go-ahead run scored on an error and Sarah Wilcox supplied some much-needed insurance with a two-run triple to center field.
Tory Beaver's 2nd-inning solo homer gave IHCC an early 1-0 lead. Muscatine tied the game on a two-out single in the 4th. The Warriors took their 4-1 lead into the bottom of the 7th. Muscatine made it interesting with their two runs, but the Warriors closed out the Cardinals the same way they had the day before in their second win of the tournament.
In that game late Saturday afternoon, Sonja Holmes entered the contest in place of the starter, Coughlin, with a run in and the tying run on 2nd base. After a wild pitch moved the runner to 3rd, Holmes induced a ground ball to third base to nail down the 2-1 win.
Coughlin allowed only six hits and the lone run in picking up her 10th win of the season. It was a victory that allowed Indian Hills to go to the second day of the tournament as the only unbeaten team.
The Warriors had scored their only two runs against MCC on a bases-loaded single by Lizzy Tucker in the bottom of the 3rd. Indian Hills had only three hits in the game, all of them in the 3rd inning. But Coughlin and Holmes made the two runs stand up.
Indian Hills started the tourney with a big 4-1 win against top-seeded Southeastern CC in Saturday's first game. The Warriors had lost four of five regular season matchups with the BlackHawks, but grabbed a 2-0 lead in the 5th on a Morgan Powers RBI-double and a run-scoring single by McKenzie Cason.
After SCC's Amy Harner slammed a solo homer in the top of the 6th to make it a one-run game, the Warriors got two-out RBI-singles from pinch-hitter Sydney Hallbauer and Powers in the bottom of the inning for the final margin.
Haight scattered six hits in going the distance for the pitching victory for IHCC. Ryan Jehle had three of the Warriors' 11 hits and Powers, Cason and Tucker each had two.
Indian Hills is now 31-22 for the season. The Warriors will head to Neosho, Missouri to play Crowder College in the District K tournament May 7-8. The first game of the district tournament will be at 2:00 Friday afternoon (May 7). Game two will follow. And if a third game is necessary, it will be played at noon on Saturday.
The winner of the best-of-three series will advance to the NJCAA national tournament in St. George, Utah May 19-22.
Indian Hills, which entered the four-team region tourney as the number-four seed, completed their run through the tournament on Sunday with a 4-3 win against Muscatine CC to claim the championship.
Kylee Coughlin came out of the IHCC bullpen to save the game for starter Brandi Haight, who had given the Warriors 6 1/3 solid innings in her second win in as many days.
Of the two batters she faced, Coughlin got a groundout to second base and a popup to second baseman Kelly Ruepke to nail down the clinching victory. Coughlin did throw a wild pitch which allowed Muscatine to make it a one-run game, but she got the final out to preserve Haight's 13th win of the year.
Indian Hills snapped a 1-all tie with a three-run 6th inning. The go-ahead run scored on an error and Sarah Wilcox supplied some much-needed insurance with a two-run triple to center field.
Tory Beaver's 2nd-inning solo homer gave IHCC an early 1-0 lead. Muscatine tied the game on a two-out single in the 4th. The Warriors took their 4-1 lead into the bottom of the 7th. Muscatine made it interesting with their two runs, but the Warriors closed out the Cardinals the same way they had the day before in their second win of the tournament.
In that game late Saturday afternoon, Sonja Holmes entered the contest in place of the starter, Coughlin, with a run in and the tying run on 2nd base. After a wild pitch moved the runner to 3rd, Holmes induced a ground ball to third base to nail down the 2-1 win.
Coughlin allowed only six hits and the lone run in picking up her 10th win of the season. It was a victory that allowed Indian Hills to go to the second day of the tournament as the only unbeaten team.
The Warriors had scored their only two runs against MCC on a bases-loaded single by Lizzy Tucker in the bottom of the 3rd. Indian Hills had only three hits in the game, all of them in the 3rd inning. But Coughlin and Holmes made the two runs stand up.
Indian Hills started the tourney with a big 4-1 win against top-seeded Southeastern CC in Saturday's first game. The Warriors had lost four of five regular season matchups with the BlackHawks, but grabbed a 2-0 lead in the 5th on a Morgan Powers RBI-double and a run-scoring single by McKenzie Cason.
After SCC's Amy Harner slammed a solo homer in the top of the 6th to make it a one-run game, the Warriors got two-out RBI-singles from pinch-hitter Sydney Hallbauer and Powers in the bottom of the inning for the final margin.
Haight scattered six hits in going the distance for the pitching victory for IHCC. Ryan Jehle had three of the Warriors' 11 hits and Powers, Cason and Tucker each had two.
Indian Hills is now 31-22 for the season. The Warriors will head to Neosho, Missouri to play Crowder College in the District K tournament May 7-8. The first game of the district tournament will be at 2:00 Friday afternoon (May 7). Game two will follow. And if a third game is necessary, it will be played at noon on Saturday.
The winner of the best-of-three series will advance to the NJCAA national tournament in St. George, Utah May 19-22.
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