Stories from Wednesday, June 15, 2011

The trend the Spencer Tiger baseball team would like to remedy is building an early lead only to see it vanish as the game wears on. Wednesday night Spencer got out to a 4-0 lead before Western Christian climbed back into the game and eventually came away with the Lakes Conference win, 6-4. The Tigers are now 7-4 overall and 3-3 in conference...

Clay Central-Everly entered the Iowa High School Baseball Coaches Association's top-10 this week in Class 1A. The Mavericks are ranked eighth after starting the season 12-5. The rankings were released June 14. Storm Lake St. Mary's is fourth in 1A and 2010 champions Martensdale-St. Mary's is ranked first. Martensdale-St. Mary's went 40-0 last year on its way to the 1A state title and have started this season 15-0...