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And then there was one.

Well, one Pig Floyd Rosedale, kind of a big deal.

So is that a trophy?

The 2025 State softball champion for class one A is going to take that home here in just a little bit.

It's the Iowa girls high School Athletic Union state championships class one A our final game of the season.

Our final championship.

It's number two.

Number one Clarksville and Wayne.

We're ready to go.

As we end the year in the smallest class with two of the best people.

Well, okay, that's.

We're just being humble about everything.

I'm Paul Yeager.

Laura Leonard the best person right here.

Laura.

These are two teams that have been here a lot for Wayne.

We'll talk about them in a moment.

But let's talk about Clarksville.

They've been here already once this season to this complex.

What are they trying to do here on the second time?

It's just another business trip for them is how they're classifying this.

They come to Fort Dodge to the mid-season tournament to get comfortable on these fields.

And the atmosphere.

And so this one is a business trip now.

The other one was for fun.

They're here and they mean business.

And for Wayne, this is a team that has been here a lot.

But they're just trying to get over the hump.

We'll talk about the Lady Falcons in a moment.

But Clarksville seventh trip to state.

Five of the last seven years.

Two Grand Slams in the semifinal.

Just some massive hitting going on from this team.

Emily Manwaring has been good.

So have the Lodge sisters.

We have a lot of big bats to come in this Clarksville lineup.

They have a lot of pop one through nine.

You've got to keep the ball down against them.

You don't want them to get anything up in the air because they can launch them out of here.

And then for Wayne, the Lady Falcons, they got over the hump.

They made it here.

Their ninth trip to state At least eight of their players have had a hit in the quarterfinals.

Senior Izzy Morse she does it all in the circle and at the plate.

Yeah, she is a tough out at the plate, but boy, she's even better in the circle.

And here also is Ella Whitney.

We'll talk about her another Fast runner and fast player.

Let's hope for a fast, well-played game.

It is a beautiful July night.

High humidity, low wind, but now good softball.

Let's meet the starters and reserves.

Rogers Sports Complex and our final championship game of the week.

This one a matchup featuring the Clarksville Indians And from Wayne community, the Lady Falcons.

Now let's meet our teams.

First of all, for the visitors from Clarksville, here are their Nonstarters number two, Kenna Millikin.

Number three, Kimmy Sherman, number four, Lizzie Kramer.

Number five, Ava Johnson.

Number ten, Carrie Lavrin.

Number 11 Sophie Guzman.

Number 17 Abby Schmidt.

Number 18 Kapri Clark.

Number 21 Lizzie Quillman.

And number 25 Gia Hujer.

Your assistant coaches, Taylor Ahrenholz Corey Wedeking and Katie Kampmann.

Now, here's your starting lineup for the Clarksville Indians.

Leading off playing shortstop, number 19 Claire Lodge, batting second, doing the catching number 16 Emily Manwarren batting third in center field, number 15 Paige Kampmann, cleanup hitter for the Indians at third base.

Number six Hannah Wang, batting fifth and doing the pitching.

Number nine Sydney, batting sixth at second base.

Number seven Jenny Johnson batting seventh at first base.

Number 26 Kara Bolin batting eighth.

The designated player number 23 Brooke Bowling and batting in the ninth position.

The left fielder, number eight Kate Lodge, and your flex player in right field.

Number 24 Eve Jordan, head coach for the Indians Katie Berman And now let's meet the home team from Wayne Community.

Here are the Lady Falcons.

Your nonstarters number two Chloe Sims.

Number six, Clara Bethards.

Number 16 Joe Murphy.

Number 22 Remy Ewing.

Number 24 Emma Abel.

Number 31 Memphis Stark.

Number 32 Lilly Reid.

And number 73 Maggie Kent.

Your assistant coach Brianna Fortune.

And now here's your starting lineup for the Wayne Lady Falcons leading off playing second base.

Number 29 Ella Whitney batting second at third base.

Number 20 Ava Whitney batting third, doing the catching Number eight Allie Jo Fortune, cleanup hitter for the Lady Falcons, doing the pitching number 19 Izzy Moore, batting fifth at shortstop.

Number ten Bristol Pack batting sixth in left field.

Number 21 Laney Harvey batting seventh.

The designated player, number 12 Cora Bethards batting eighth in center field.

Number three Carson Anderson, batting in the ninth spot.

The right fielder number 34 Haley Ingram, your flex player at first base.

Number 17 Jake Tremble, head coach for the Lady Falcons.

Heather Fortune.

Now, ladies and gentlemen, please turn your attention to the home plate area.

The umpires assigned to this championship contest by the Iowa Girls High School Athletic Union.

At first base, Paul Byrd at third base, Darrell Erickson and calling the balls and strikes this evening, Josh Perkins.

All right, who's ready to win a state championship?

Last day of the season, July the 25th, 2025.

Just after 8:00 on a Friday night here, Laura.

And this is the defense that will be put out first for Wayne.

Lena, Lainey, Harvey, Carson, Anderson, Haley Ingram in left, center and right.

Whitney Peck, Whitney Trimble in the infield, third to first.

And the battery is Ali Joe Fortune at catcher and Izzy Moore in the circle.

Izzy More Laura Leonard.

She's got a lot of weapons.

Yeah, she really does.

She's got the drop, the rise.

She's got a change.

She just has confidence out there in the circle.

We asked Coach Fortune, hey, what's her outpitch?

She goes, I'm not telling you.

We've yet to get a coach on that one.

We've tried.

She's 22 and oh on the season with a one, two, eight E.R.A.

Over 155 innings pitched, strikes out a lot of batters at 259.

Not walked.

Many either.

That's a good ratio.

She's got a really good whip and does not walk a lot of hitters is always around the plate.

Claire Lodge.

Emily Manwarren.

Paige Kampmann go one, two, three for Clarksville.

Then it's Lovren Johnson, bowling, bowling Lodge and Caitlin Lodge.

The eighth grader had a home run earlier this week.

Or at least it is on the scoreboard and I think we are ready to go here.

And your keys in a moment for Clarksville.

Laura.

They need to have good pitch selection.

As we said that Moore is going to be around the plate.

So you've got to pick out the perfect pitch and be aggressive at the plate.

Go after that first pitch.

And for Wayne.

And for Wayne, what they need to do, keep it simple.

That's been their motto.

That's what Coach Fortune told us, she said.

We just have to keep things simple and they need to keep the ball down because Clarksville leads one A in home runs.

We saw them put out two the other night, both of them Grand slams.

First pitch.

At 808.

Is a strike to Claire Lodge from Izzy Moore A senior at Short second pitch is a base hit, so just oh, that goes all the way to the wall.

And that's going to be a at least a single with an air, if not a double, to start the game for Claire Lodge.

We've seen this throughout the tournament and good job of adjusting at the plate.

This one scoots along the grass and as it gets to this part of the night time, I think the grass outfield is a little bit damper.

I think the ball moves a little quicker and it scoots by these outfielders.

It has been.

It rained more than two inches here on Wednesday night and it was already very green.

As the bunt is put down by Manwarren and no place to go is Ali Jo Fortune.

That ball went I don't know, 18in from the plate and just died.

At first it looked like home plate umpire Josh Perkins was going to call dead ball, but it was picked up while it was still right there in front of the plate.

So now it's runners at the corners for Paige Kampman.

So an infield hit to add to the base hit as Manwarren goes down to second on the pitch.

That's hit in the air right behind second, but making a great range play as Ella Whitney to retire.

Kampman number one.

Infield drawn in with that runner at third base and Whitney doing a great job getting a jump on it, getting that ball behind second base immediately look into third base, see if the runners tagging.

Hannah up for Clarksville.

The junior third base hits the first pitch.

It's in fair territory.

Looking back, the runner, what a rocket!

Ava Whitney, over to Trimble.

Wow, what a play.

Rocket is right?

You could hear that thing sizzling as it went across the diamond.

Good.

Look, keep the runner standing there on third.

That was a rocket.

That thing never left the ground more than two feet.

Ball.

First pitch to Sydney.

Lovren as a ball.

So two away runners at second and third.

Clarksville looking to strike first here.

Lovren up the middle gloved by Peck.

Fakes the throw home.

Probably should have thrown it home.

No throw two runs in on the infield.

Hit by Sydney.

Lovren.

Right away.

Right back up the middle.

And it's very tough to get up and try to make a throw anywhere but Coach Berman had those runners moving.

She did not slow down man Warren as she came around third.

She was sending her the entire time.

Kapri Clark comes in for the pitcher on the courtesy runner.

The heart of the dugout is now standing at first base.

She represents the third run of the game for Clarksville.

They lead two nothing at this point and at the end of the semifinal game that Wayne had against Riverside, as that pitch is chopped and.

Moore thought she gloved it, tagged before it went foul And Josh Perkins says, nope, it was foul.

Kind of like that play in basketball or in football, you're like toeing the line.

Trying to keep the ball in play.

Fouled away.

It's now nothing in two.

On Jenny Johnson.

Nice catch.

Wayne against Riverside in the last two innings.

Kind of right in the last inning.

They were up big but kind of started throwing the ball around and trying to get rid of that hangover as a swing and a miss.

Johnson is down on strikes.

First strikeout of the game for Moore is the third out of the inning, but Clarksville strikes first, gets a pair and they lead two nothing as Izzy Moore gives high fives and heads to the dugout.

And now it's time to bat for the Wayne Lady Falcons.

And this is the defense that they are going to face from Clarksville is going to be in left Paige Kampmann in right and center.

And Eve Jordan in right.

Hannah at third, Claire Lodge, Jenny Johnson up the middle and Kara Bolen at first, Emma Manwaring is the catcher and Sydney Lovren, the pitcher.

Sydney Lovren what do you want to say about her?

Laura Well, she has just been steady all season long.

She does a good job of mixing her pitches.

She has a variety that she'll throw and she does a good job of mixing speeds.

28 and three with a 1.59 E.R.A., and we have seen it over the years where one a the pitchers might bring a microscopic point four E.R.A.

I think everybody just hits the ball so well now.

It's hard to be under one.

It is hard to be under one.

And both these lineups have a lot of big sticks.

As you can see with this, Wayne batting lineup.

Ella, Whitney, Ava, Whitney.

Then it's Allie fortune, Izzy Moore, Bristol Peck, Harvey Anderson and Ingram for coach Heather fortune and the Lady Falcons from Wayne in southern Iowa.

Clarksville and northeast Iowa.

We could play name that county later, but we won't do that first pitch ball.

Here's the thing Ella Whitney there you see 440 11 doubles.

This is the first matchup I can remember in quite some time where the two head coaches are coaching their hometown teams.

Both Heather Fortune and Katie Berman, both graduates of Clarksville, and Wayne, respectively, so that's fun.

I think that's fun.

I think it's fun that you have.

Well hit by Whitney, but it's going to stay in the park for an out.

And we talked about it, that you have players that want to come back and coach the hometown team.

You have people that graduated and maybe didn't play or did play, but want to be a part of this program and a part of the community.

And here's a good look at Coach Fortune, 18 years at the helm.

Her daughter, Brenna, is the first base coach and her other daughter.

Allie Jo is behind the plate.

There's look at Brenna.

Brenna.

Who pitched at the state tournament when Wayne was here before Again won a.

That's why One-a is so fun for me.

Is because you have people coming back and legends in town and give back to the program, and that's what we have here.

With the two fortunes.

And the pitch to Ava Whitney is a strike, and that is strike three.

First one of the game for Lovren.

Number two, that'll bring up the catcher.

Just paints the corner and its location.

And now you kind of know and get an idea of where the umpire's strike zone is going to be.

Allie Jo Fortune.

All the coaches asked for is consistent and maybe a little bigger for us when we're pitching.

Let's be honest.

There's a second part of that sentence as the pitch to fortune is fouled away.

So Allie Jo her mom at third or sister at first, or cousins in the circle, the one one hit in the air towards right.

It's going to stay in the park and it's going to be caught by Jordan for out number three.

So the Lady Falcons go 123 in their half of the first.

We've played one full inning.

It's two nothing Clarksville no ball to go under your glove when you catch it in the air.

And this one a field one two is how we finished Wayne beat Highland in a close game.

Riverside and Newell-Fonda.

Riverside from western Iowa Clarksville and Newman Catholic that went eight innings on this field Tuesday night.

And then Fort Dodge Saint Ed's the hometown team this year, beat Wapsie Valley, who had not been in the tournament since 1977, and then Wayne over Riverside and Clarksville over Saint Ed's, back, two Grand Slams and a Grand Slam walk-off to win that one for Clarksville.

It was amazing how they I mean, they just they launched the ball and you can see those T-shirts.

And Riverside beat Saint Ed's in the third place.

Game five four.

And if you want to follow along on our live stream, there you are.

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We'll also tell you how you can go back and watch some of those other games that we've had in championships over the years Izzy.

More goes back to work here in the second.

A couple of runs on the board over three hits for Clarksville.

And again, Laura, like like many championship teams and championship games, we can see teams score in bunches.

And Clarksville before you know it hits a grand slam and walks it off.

I mean this this is a quick strike team.

If you let it.

Yeah, it really is.

And they just they put runners on.

They have the power in the middle of the lineup.

But they also have power at the bottom of the lineup as well.

And they can just consistently hit the ball.

And I think again that is just work that they have done in the off season to work on their fundamentals.

Win at the plate and work on a lot of things in the winter, and it has proved to pan out very well for them.

Carolyn swings and misses on consecutive changeups.

Cara Boland Laura, you mentioned strong.

Cara had one of those grand slams against Saint Edge.

She went two for three and ropes that one into left on a one.

Hopper picked up by Harvey.

And it's a lead off single for Clarksville here in the second.

Base.

Hit.

And that is everything coming off of their bats.

Sounds hard.

They're hitting it hard.

They're getting it on the barrel.

They're leveling off their swing and they're driving pitches.

That'll make way for Sister Brooke Bowling.

The eighth grader pops it up to our right side and out of.

Play.

Brooke has one hit in the tournament.

Looking to get a second one to send Cara running The oh one from Moore bounced in there, stopped by Allie Jo.

You know, in a lot of times you think in a situation early in the game let's move the runner up.

Let's get another runner in scoring position.

I'm not sure this Clarksville team, they think you know what we can have that big inning.

Why give up outs.

Why not go ahead and swing away.

See if we can hit those gaps and hit one out.

And so, you know, I think it's a combination of how they play.

Sometimes they play a little small ball.

Otherwise I think Coach Berman is saying, you know what, let's swing away.

We're swinging a hot bat right now.

Katie Berman, in her 11th season at Clarksville won a state championship Change up hit fortune to her right.

Looks at second throws to get Bolen by a quarter step for out.

Number one runner moved up.

Cara Bolen goes to second.

Brooke Bolen back to the dugout on a groundout.

1 to 3.

That's kind of your swinging but great backhand that time.

And Moore did take a peek at second to see if she might be able to get the force there, but instead turns and gets the out over there at first.

But now another runner in scoring position for Clarksville.

Kate Lodge, who gets rides from her sister.

I asked, what was it like playing with your sister and what adjustments had to be made on the one zero pitch from Moore and it's punched to the left side and it's quickly gloved and thrown in by Harvey and lodge a base hit.

And here's the thing, Laura.

You said bottom of the order.

The bottom of the order seven and nine have both had hits in this inning.

And solid hits to right, right in the gaps, advancing runners And you just can't take anyone for granted in this lineup.

Heather Fortune on her way out to the circle to have a conversation.

In a little bit.

Obviously they're swinging for hits, right?

So we got to make sure we change some things up up here in the top of this lineup.

Like get them off speed just a little bit.

One, they're literally at the top right now.

This either that you had earlier beautiful I mean we're going to check that runner listen communicate with her.

If we can get that we're going to get that.

But we got to start stopping some runners out here right here right now.

Okay.

As your head in it.

Yeah.

Everybody good?

Okay.

Let's go.

There's a look at the back of her shirt team.

I think it's a team.

54.

And so we had to ask what does team 54 mean.

Play with a purpose.

That is the 50.

This is the 54th Wayne Community School softball team.

And so they do a T-shirt every season.

Team 50.

So next year team 55.

And they continue to do those T-shirts.

And I believe they come up with a different theme for each season.

So you see the orange shirts when we cut wide, you'll see these orange shirts.

Those are the shirts and the black shirts that are for Wayne.

So kind of easy to see fan bases Claire Lodge, who had to bring her sister to practice.

They had to work out the bathroom schedule too.

That was also that's always the sisterly challenge.

And, you know, and that's the thing in softball, really in a lot of these sports, the sisters who might be more than 1 or 2 years apart.

Nice fastball from Moore.

They don't play together until they get to high school because you always play on the same 12 you team or the, you know, the nine you, the ten you.

But when you have 14 and 18, you really only get that when you're in high school.

Said at the beginning of the season they didn't get along very well.

It was they had to kind of work things out, and now they get along great.

You know, as all sisters, you have your cranky moments.

You don't get along and and then you try to figure out how to work it out.

And these two have.

The one two from Moore is inside on Claire.

And there's a look at a sister who has her sister coaching with her.

Katie Berman, her sister Katie and her other sisters, a coach at Waverly.

Off-speed pitch is out.

Let's see if I have this right.

Claire Lodge coming into tonight in her last four games, was seven of 13 with four home runs, four home runs, and three of them were Grand slams, 15 RBIs.

Yes, you are correct, sir.

That that's pretty impressive.

That's a pretty good four game stretch that you have four home runs, three of them grand slams.

That increases your RBI total.

And Lodge.

Actually you can extend that now it's eight of 14 because she had a hit back in the first.

And then it won't count on the at bat there because she walks and loads the bases for Emily Warren which is the second place hitter who had a single back in the second, scored the game Second run.

Most singles in class one A she's headed to Dmacc.

Anytime you say coach Ligouri, they just smile.

He he just he he's kind of stealth.

He just kind of goes around and picks up all these great players from all these different programs around the state.

I'm not sure how he does it.

He is in 100 places all at once, and finding these players to keep in state and help them get a little bit better, hone those skills at Dmacc and then help them get to the next level.

The zero two to Emily is fouled away, and we'll do it again.

A lot of coaches here this week seeing the big the big ones in state, some from out of state, some who used to coach here.

Like I saw Paul Hunt, who used to be the coach at Saint Ed's.

Ron Farrell used to be the coach at Ambrose and Assumption.

He was here down from Truman State.

He has a recruit.

I can't remember exactly.

Right off the top of my head, but Iowa, Iowa State uni, Drake.

Yeah, don't forget Drake.

I'm saving the best for last.

You are back into the conversation.

The oh two check swing.

Did she go?

Did she go?

No.

We heard you.

Did she.

Go?

But he thought he'd better ask the third base umpire just to make it official.

No, I think it's great that all these college coaches do come here.

And I know I say this every year that the entire coaching world, coaching world knows that Iowa plays summer softball.

And they know how great are summer softball is.

And the talent that is in state.

And we get a lot of coaches here.

Throw home.

It's a force.

They get the out at the plate.

Whitney grabs it, throws home.

So Kara Bolen is out on the fielder's choice.

Second out of the inning.

Make sure of the one out.

Don't try to turn the double play.

Don't try to get too fancy.

Just make sure you get the one.

And they did.

Bases still loaded for Paige Kampman tore her ACL last year.

Just a little bit of time away and she has come back big time this year.

Hits it up the middle.

That's going to get down for a base hit.

Probably going to score two.

Here comes Beckett.

Cut off by Moore.

Two more for Clarksville.

They lead four.

Nothing high.

Chapman Scores.

Chapman right up the middle.

Just enough to get it to the outfield.

Grass.

And they are going to continue to move those runners around the bases.

Coach Berman had the go sign on and sent two more home.

The pitch from Moore is smacked by Wagner, who gloves it.

Peck does over to Trimble to get the out.

For out number three.

And the Indians with.

But the Indians get another two and they lead four.

Nothing.

Two left.

On as Wayne goes 123 in their half of the inning.

Now they're looking to add as they come to bat.

Where are.

We at What's the zone?

Okay, okay.

So when you swing we're swinging for hits, right.

We're looking to blow this up a little bit.

So we're swinging for hits.

Get your head down on the ball and make sure you're seeing the ball right.

Hands in.

Cover the plate.

Make solid contact right here okay.

You got to win it mentally before you're going to win it out there okay.

Come on.

Let's go.

Let's do it.

Hits and runs one, two three.

Hits.

And runs.

We make up coaches in the sports that we cover.

And now we've got some new sports to cover coming up real soon.

Girls volleyball.

That'll be Thursday, November 6th.

Then it's football.

We're going to the Uni-dome for Thursday and Friday.

Championships.

Seven of them on the 20th and 21st, then boys wrestling.

The individual championships.

Returned to Iowa PBS on February 21st, 2026.

Girls basketball will be back.

Laura.

The pink coat will be ready on March 6th and seven, and boys basketball haven't figured out what I'm going to wear for that one yet, but we'll see.

I could just wear pink again, couldn't I just say I just got confused?

I think you need to change it up, I think.

Yeah, find something different for you know, you got to have you got to have a little uniform for that tournament.

That's true.

Gonna have to come up with something.

Get a uniform for that little.

One, a little one.

We've been watching that one for that little one for a while.

And.

Then.

Before we know what that baby will be out here playing Izzy more Bristol Peck, Lainey Harvey, do up for Wayne.

First pitch hit Skyed into the air, right at the grass and dirt.

Is Jenny Johnson out number one?

Well, Coach Fortune said go up there swinging for hits and they're being aggressive.

And so Moore went after that first pitch, got a good rip at it.

Just got underneath it.

But I like the fact that she said you got to win mentally first before you can win it out on the field.

You've got to overcome the fact that you're down four nothing.

Put it behind you and figure out a way to get yourselves back into this ball game.

Bristol Pack, the sophomore dual threat speed power Glove smacks that one foul and near the parking lot up over to the top of one of those trees.

It's older than all of us.

As the sun starts to set here in Webster County, Peck has been at state track three year starter here at State swings through that one and it's out number two.

Goes down on strikes, dropping the two.

And this one goes up.

And in second strike of the game for Lovren.

Lovren is I mean she's really dealing.

She looks very relaxed in the circle hitting her spots.

Feels the ball from Laney Harvey For out number three very quick.

123 inning five pitches And Lovren's faced the minimum here in the first two for nothing Clarksville over Wayne.

Barnes channel seeds Katie Berman.

It all starts with.

You have to tell yourself.

Hannah said the other day.

She just goes up there and says, who cares if you have to do that, do that, who cares?

Have fun, get a hit.

Have fun.

On three, one, two, three.

Have fun.

Don't you wish it was that easy Yeah it would.

It would be great if it were that easy.

And you know what though, I think there is something to that though.

If you go up, you have fun, you're relaxed, you're not tight, you're not gripping the bat so hard.

Well, here here is Izzy Moore in slow motion.

Merchandise Just great drive and extension and gets good spin.

Her pitching coach is Cassandra Dara Allen, who was a pitcher for Wayne the first time they were here in 2010.

And when she threw a perfect game, she's a mound workhorse.

She's really the heart and soul of this team in that circle, and she's trying to.

Yeah, she puts a little zip on that first pitch to Sydney.

Lovren the opposing team pitcher.

What else do you see about Izzy Moore.

Well Coach Fortune told us she just exudes confidence.

And when she's in the circle she kind of takes command of everything.

And she is one of those players that has one of those really high softball IQs that just understands the game and understands what she needs to do against these hitters and help out her team.

Lovren hits it up the middle and it's going to go all the way to the wall And Lovren will stay at first with a leadoff single here in the third.

Just out of the reach of Whitney.

And then it just sneaks by.

Anderson didn't get the glove down on the ground and gets all the way to the fence, but it didn't cost them as Lovren stayed at first base.

And she will be replaced at first.

Capri Clark will come in and run on the courtesy side of things.

Capri Clark.

They say that she's kind of the heart and soul of the dugout.

She's.

But she's out of the dugout now.

She's running bases as she did the last inning, but she's the one that kind of keeps them up and gets them fired up in the dugout and keeps things lively over there.

She's getting talked to there by Taylor, Aaron Holtz.

Assistant coach here for.

For coach.

Second baseman Jenny Johnson.

Now Jenny Johnson's turn lays the bunt.

But it's foul So even though you crush it like you do.

Johnson's up there.

Bunting with A40 lead As we kind of talked about last inning last time they swung away they were trying to have a big inning.

Now this time they kind of went small ball tried to get the bunt down going back to swinging away.

So Coach Berman's mixing some things up.

Not going always with the conventional way of.

Well the old my my conventional way of thinking.

And I think you get a runner on first.

You got to bunt him around.

Don't see I mean, don't always see that anymore.

You see a lot of different strategies.

The oh two Johnson is able to hold up.

The pitch to Johnson foul down the left field or third base line as Whitney gives a chase I think Clarksville feeling obviously very confident right now in their position.

Swinging away, swinging hard, trying to put as many runs on the board as they possibly can.

That's the second time that I have flinched and I'm mad at myself.

I feel like a bobble head here.

I'm moving around as that thing keeps popping up.

Yeah, of course we're going to show that replay.

Yeah, look at everybody flinch.

Oh, I even closed my eyes.

So did.

I.

Two for flinching.

Yeah great.

I'm nailed in the truck.

Great.

Thank you to our Iowa PBS crew for all those looks.

Yeah.

Hi.

Yeah, I'm the one who flinched.

I know ball is in there.

Crews been working hard yesterday.

Today, bringing you all the highlights.

We've got cameras on dugouts, up on lifts.

Some of them were sinking because of the water and how soft the ground was.

We got stats, graphics, takes a full team to pull this production off.

The swing and miss is dropped by.

The catcher goes to the screen.

So that means Johnson is going to reach on the error and it's a strikeout with an error.

And Lovren will be at second.

Johnson at first.

As Allie.

Joe just shakes her head.

I know, I know.

Now it's Cara Bolan first pitch to her is a strike.

You know Wayne has to find something positive right now that they can hang on to.

They need that big play.

They need something that they can hang their hat on right now to try to help them stay in this ball game, maintain their composure.

They're a little down on themselves right now, and they've got to have some kind of a spark to turn the tables to get them going.

To rev that motor.

That pitch is in.

Maybe it's a big defensive play right now.

I mean, those are the things that can turn a game.

If you get the, you know, the double play or get the big strikeout here, something that can.

Oh what a play by Moore.

Speaking of big plays, Laura goes to her knees, grabs it as she's going down.

And then throws straight in front of her to Whitney to get the lead runner.

On third.

She does such a great job.

Good quick reaction right there.

Gets to the knees and makes a good throw.

Looking to try to double them up So Johnson goes to first as Clark is erased Bolan Kara is at first Bolan.

Brooke in the middle.

There is at the plate Izzy Morris oh, one pitch from the circle.

Change up, swing and miss You think?

The zero two high fortune trying to tempt the wherewithal to Brooke Bolan.

Well, these two.

Have played together forever.

Were they six?

I think so.

Or eight.

Something like that.

They started playing together.

Playing together.

Like sisters.

But they're cousins.

Raised like sisters.

Like sisters.

Yeah.

So they they have been friends and family for a long, long time and have been pitcher and catcher for a long, long time.

And they get the big strikeout there.

Popping up left Lodge.

Lodge hits it to short.

They go after the lead runner on the quick force out.

Peck to Whitney takes the easy one right there.

Good play No more runs for Clarksville.

They are going to leave a couple of runners here in their half of the third inning.

Get some, get some.

One, two, three.

Hit some, get some.

Short and simple is what you have to do.

Sometimes up right now Wayne's looking for their first runner.

First hit seven, eight, nine.

It's Anderson and Ingram do up for Wayne.

And now let's take a look at Lovren in the circle.

We talked about Lovren.

Good speed mixes her speeds mixes her pitches.

Different spins.

You can see how it comes out of her hand.

How she can turn it over.

Get the ball to break different ways.

Lover and a junior.

She was a sixth grader the last time Clarksville won a state title.

She was in the stands again.

Small town.

You go to the games.

The whole town goes.

Playing.

Several of these players were in the stands the last time that they wanted.

In 2020.

Clarksville for Wayne.

Nothing here.

Bottom of the third.

First pitch swing and fouled away.

Cara Bethards on the season 14 hits, eight RBIs.

First year starter looking for her first hit in the state tournament.

Her team needs her right now.

That pitch is inside.

One two.

Got to try to break the pattern here.

Get a base runner on.

Popped in the infield for Jenna Johnson, who grabs it, puts the finger up that says one.

Been a good combination.

For Clarksville so far.

Good pitching, good defense, getting a lot of pop ups.

So they're swinging at that ball up in the zone.

Those make for easy outs.

That's too far inside.

Catch Good to hear the communication between the home plate umpire and catcher.

And They.

That's that's always a relationship that you have to build throughout the game.

Working together with the umpire behind you.

And as a catcher, kind of working in tandem.

That Nice pitch, little rise ball action there to Carson Anderson.

One ball, two.

Strikes ball and two strikes here.

One away in the waning third.

Off speed popped up into the net.

We'll go again.

You know hearing the umpires there were a couple of calls last night.

We were able to hear discussions of the umpires.

And I know as an umpire they get a little nervous and maybe pitches out, but we get a chance to hear what they are looking at, what they are talking about.

Then their conversations.

Back to coaches.

I think it helps the game.

I do.

Too, hearing that type of thing and communicating that pitch is up and in, and that might actually help some of our challenges that we may have between fans and umpires.

When they explain what they see.

Right?

I mean, in the professional levels, we see the communication, you know, football for sure Strike three, called Carson Anderson is out.

On a strike.

Third strikeout of the game for Lovren.

But we find out you know if it's in if it's out.

And that tells you you know you talk about that between innings And it's all about making the game better.

That's what we're going for here.

Swing and a miss by Haley Ingram.

Well and as a fan if you hear that you still may not like the outcome of what you're being told.

But at least you may understand a little better of what they were looking at.

What they saw and what they saw.

As you get into the upper level on the replay and that kind of thing.

But at least it gives an explanation.

And people then aren't assuming or wondering or questioning what they've just seen.

They've gotten the explanation.

Yeah.

The oh two misses to Ingram From Lovren the one two pitch hit in the air.

And that's going to get down for the base.

Hit first base hit of the game.

Comes to the ninth place hitter Haley Ingram breaks the no.

No up.

Ingram with a single to left.

And that is her first hit at the state tournament.

Comes at a great time She did a good job of going down and getting that pitch.

Just lifting it in to the outfield.

Now back to the top of the order.

Ella Whitney Let's see what that does.

Now to Lovren and the Indian defense.

You got a runner on Ella Whitney.

Just need to get her on base.

If your coach fortune because she can steal him if she can get there swing and a miss.

Broke the school record and stolen bases.

We're going to have an offensive conference.

See the ball.

Do you feel like you're seeing it?

Did you see it on the line?

I did not.

See that one.

Okay, so just a little down.

Just make sure you ground pressure just like you do when you pitch.

So ground pressure so that you feel some ground stay connected.

Okay.

Go get yours.

Two strikes.

Play the oh two coming to Whitney.

And that is right.

Down the middle.

Strike three.

Lovren's fourth strikeout ends the rally, which was only just one runner, but at least it's no longer the minimum.

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Everything.

Clarksville comes to bat here in the fourth.

They lead four nothing.

Top of the order Claire Lodge Emily Manwaring and Paige Kampmann.

For seven, zero for Clarksville, 010 for Wayne.

The pitch from Izzy Moore is up and in Lodge who we mentioned her stat line earlier.

She was one of those seventh graders.

She's headed to Niacc.

And she just just loves the game.

I think it's just fun for her.

When you hear her talk about things and it doesn't seem like a challenge or a job, it just seems like this is kind of fun and I enjoy doing it.

I'm in my community.

I'm in with my friends, with my sister.

I'm going to play at the next level.

I mean, that's what it's all about is being able to play with friends and family for your community.

It's a big deal.

The fans come out, support them, and it just makes for a great summer.

The three two is swung through and missed.

Claire Lodge out on a strikeout.

Good pitch.

Izzy Moore one away for Emily Manwaring.

And here's the thing, Laura.

I mean, you know, as we watch this one come back up Just got a great rise ball.

These small communities the 1A2A3 A's I mean it is a community affair.

And that's one thing Coach Berman talked about.

She goes, Clarksville softball is big.

I don't think she said softball is life, but she might just as well have because she said, there just seem to be this year a little different feel around the team, kind of something that they had back in the Championship years before, kind of felt maybe they just didn't quite have that.

But she thinks I think it's there right now.

Yeah.

And she kind of said family is the core theme of this team.

I mean, there's sisters and coaches that have are sisters.

And so you've got that family atmosphere with a lot of your friends surrounding you.

And then everybody becomes one and becomes family.

And then when you get the community support that they get, it becomes a big deal.

And now it's one and two to Manwaring, as Moore is a strike away from getting that second out.

Strike.

Emily single and a fielder's choice runs up on it, pops it up.

Foul territory coming in from third is Whitney to grab it two away Right away.

Whitney took control of that one.

Called off everybody waved the hand in the air.

You could see the hands just kind of dip.

And she got underneath that one.

Whitney took charge of that one.

That's what you do.

And that's the.

And that's the play.

That's who you want.

Taking that two.

Your catcher can do everything, but coming in on the ball is a lot easier than going out on.

It Yeah.

She had the best angle and and saw it right away.

Change up hit high in the air to right right behind and wow great catch Haley Ingram made it interesting but got the job done for the first time in this game Clarksville goes down in order 123.

And that's the top of their order.

So finally another zero on the board for Clarksville pitched by Wayne.

As Ingram says.

Yep, I got it.

It was easy.

Yeah.

Easy right at the last minute.

And I do think the ground is getting a little slick.

That grass is getting a little slick as Paul Byrd slipped as he was going out on that.

Katie Berman is the head coach for Clarksville and she is joining us now in her 11th season coach.

We've been just discussing about the community.

What's the community in the dugout right now?

What's the mood over there?

Very hyped up and I'm hoping it stays that way.

They came out right away that first inning, so we got to make sure we're staying, staying hyped up.

Laura and I were very impressed with just how aggressive you came out swinging in those first couple of innings.

Was that kind of the strategy?

Yeah, I think we knew we could hit anybody.

So that's kind of our strategy going into any game.

But we got to figure out how to not have a dry spell, how to keep going.

Sydney.

Lauren, what do you think she's doing well in the circle.

Oh my gosh.

She came to play this weekend.

She's doing great.

I think she's pitching a little harder tonight.

You can tell she's really feeling it.

But definitely hitting her spots.

Coach thank you so much.

Thank you.

Appreciate it Katie Berman look at that skyline.

Oh that's beautiful.

Put that on the Chamber of Commerce.

The big logo painted out there in center field.

That's a new touch.

Also down the left field.

Right field line.

You got the paint and the words and the phrases and the hashtags, and you got the diamonds lit up that were practiced and played on.

And we're down to the final game of the 2025 season.

Laura Leonard.

All right, ladies, let's.

Get going.

I certainly can't believe that because it seems like every year we just get started and then all of a sudden here it is.

State tournament time.

Sydney Lovren first pitch to Ava Whitney.

Is a ball.

Seems like only yesterday you were freezing under six blankets in the first games of the season.

Chopped foul down the third base line.

Only had four.

The first game.

Oh softball can have extremes.

I mean, those spring games, whether it's in college or the practice games.

June games.

We've had games here in July where we've had to wear jackets and had a blanket.

Yeah.

Well, I had the blanket because I got I got cold, but.

Well, but you have to there's a little addendum to that.

There is that sky, you know, at least we're seeing the sunset here tonight.

We're in this last game when the sun, when there's still daylight, the one, two.

There's the year we started at 1140.

That last game.

And yeah, I mean, it was morning.

So yeah, we had to have some extra layers on because it was getting colder.

And one of our many stories that we will tell over the years.

The two two is hit right.

Nice backhand by Lodge across to Bolin.

Out one.

I think also we're going to be talking about Claire Lodge here as one of those legends that we were able to see play here at the state tournament.

Laura.

Well.

You kind of talked a little bit about it maybe in that last game when they're taking infield, they take the balls that come right to them, but then you see some of these players working on their backhand and trying to pick things up, like that, and you practice that enough.

She made that look so smooth.

It was just a backhand pick turn, set the feet and make the throw.

The one zero is fouled back into the screen by Allie Joe Fortune, the senior catcher.

Flied out back in her first at bat.

Allie Joe, that veteran leader again that high softball IQ.

She's involved with volleyball and also FFA.

So lots of things.

And that's a base hit and that's going to get punched around off the glove of Cameron Lodge.

Picks it up and throws it into second.

That's a double for Allie Jo Fortune.

How about that.

Well and she just turned 19 on Thursday.

So maybe a little extra celebration for her right there.

Base hit double in the state championship.

And again as that ball gets to the outfield boy it is moving.

And you can see the effort by Kampman out there trying to get and lay out in front of it to keep it from going to the fence.

Instead, it caroms off of her and bounced around.

That allowed fortune to get into second base.

Memphis Stark, the freshman to run for Allie Jo Fortune.

So fortune does her job, gets on base one.

Out.

And just like that, Wayne, if they get a base hit here, they can cut into this lead, get a little momentum here in the middle part of the game.

Hit in the air a mile high.

But just not very deep.

Coming in to make the grab is Paige Kampman.

Okay Nice catch by Kaplan.

Second out of the fourth.

That one initially looked like a little bit of trouble.

I'm not sure Kate Lodge out in left saw it was able to finally locate it and come in, but Kampman took over as your center fielder should and was able to pull that one in It's up to Bristol Peck to keep the inning going.

As Izzy Moore was retired on that pitch.

So now with Peck.

Hits it high and out of play.

One of those track runners we were talking about.

I should just send my notes to Mike Jay for the state track meet, and I would just love to have some of his, or if he could download some of his knowledge.

And if you don't know who Mike Jay is, the PA. At the state track meet, the Drake Relays, the Olympics.

I mean, he's a guy who we're just trying to keep up with him.

I hear from him at basketball and his love for sports and it's been fun.

It's taken us a long.

It's taken me a long time to get some of these names and remember.

Wait a minute.

Okay.

You're the sister, the cousin of the family trees.

We should sponsor that at Iowa PBS.

Like a database of family trees.

As much as we've done in sports.

Yeah.

No kidding.

That'd be quite.

The flowchart, you know, kind of like A Beautiful Mind with everything written down.

And you'd have coaches.

You'd have players.

You have sisters, you got cousins, you got everybody.

Well, everybody in Iowa knows each other.

That's true.

Two degrees of Terry Branstad I think is how that goes Well big at bat here trying to get that first run in.

The zero two is low.

Hey way to go.

Multi-sport athletes.

You really see that a lot in the one a field.

You have to yeah you've only got 30 or 50 graduating seniors each year in some of these classes.

Swing and a miss.

Runner stranded.

Strikeout for Lovren of PEC.

Strands a runner in the fourth.

Goes up with the rise.

Ball climbs the ladder.

Errors one left.

On good teamwork.

Hey, we gotta figure out how to not have this dry spell because we've we've watched games here this weekend.

We even had one in the first round.

Four is not enough.

Okay, so don't get up there and be hit happy, okay?

Wait for your pitch.

We've all seen her relax up there.

Get out of this dry spell.

Okay, here we.

Go.

Four on four.

One.

Two.

Three.

Four more.

So Coach Berman told us in our interview about dry spells and trying not to have those.

And we're going to hear from Coach Fortune here in just a moment.

But she's having one final phrase with her pitcher, Izzy Moore, who goes out into the circle to pitch here in the fifth.

And Heather fortune joins us now.

Coach, you don't have to tell me verbatim what you just said, but what did you just tell Izzy Moore?

Just to slow the game down just a little bit.

Play her game.

She's been doing this literally since she was two years old.

And she's she's worked so hard for this.

The position she's in right now.

And if nothing else, to enjoy it and have fun, make the absolute most of it.

Play her game.

You're getting some more at bats that maybe are going your way.

What do you need to do here to keep telling the girls to get that bat head squared up?

Just better pitch selection.

They've got to have better pitch selection than they've just got to square the ball up.

They've got to hit it hard.

I mean that's the bottom line.

We're swinging at things so we shouldn't be and we don't swing at.

So I don't know if that's just a little bit of nerves.

Not seeing the ball pitcher throwing really well I'm not sure.

But we've got to have a little bit better pitch selection to get back in this.

Coach.

Thank you so much.

Thank you.

That's Heather fortune, head coach for Wayne.

And she's in the school as the she's a Wayne grad, went to Graceland Junior High math teacher And I said, you know, do you know anything about you know, if players don't get along or maybe somebody's not friends?

She had one of the best answers.

I think I've heard in a long time She goes, there are no secrets in this school line.

Drive is hit at Trimble.

Who had enough time on to make the play one away.

No secrets in a small town No secret here that you just got to stay with the ball.

Trimble recovers enough to make the play.

Well, you said you know, everybody in Iowa knows everybody.

Think about a small town.

You know everybody.

And you know everything.

Especially when you're in the school.

Change up, Lovren lays off as more.

Really went after that first pitch Good location on that one.

One thing she said there's really no drama on her team.

And part of that is because everybody knows everybody and related possibly in one way or another.

And so, you know, it's just you work things out when you're family and when you're that close.

The one one to Sydney Lovren is back up to Moore, who leaps up on her tippy toes, grabs it, throws to Trimble for out.

Number two.

They're starting to settle in defensively and starting to slow these bats down of Clarksville.

And that's exactly what Coach Burman said.

We can't have these dry spells.

We got to continue to score.

Four is not enough.

And she would like to see them get a couple more.

But I think Wayne is kind of now feeling a little bit of a groove.

But they as Coach Fortune said, they've got to take better swings at better pitches.

Hit on the ground to the right side.

Ella Whitney fields it cleanly, throws to Jayce Trimble.

Pretty easy inning for Izzy Moore and one, two three go.

The Indians Tim Fitzpatrick I tell you what he is going to do what he has done all week here and he's going to lead us on the fifth inning stretch.

It's getting late, but it's good for.

You.

All right, everybody, Stan, how about you people in center field?

Are you ready to go?

All right, join with me.

Let's see if we can do as well as the other two games.

Let me hear you.

A one, a two, a three.

Take me out to the ball game.

Take me out to the crowd, buy me some peanuts and Cracker Jack.

I don't care if I ever get back for it's root, root, root for the.

If they don't win, it's a shame for it's.

Two three strikes.

You're out at the old ball game.

Hey, nice job.

Who's out there cheering for the Wayne Lady.

Falcons.

And who's cheering for the Clarksville Indians Thank you Mr. Fitzpatrick.

Laney Harvey Kara.

And Carson Anderson do up for Wayne in their half of the fifth for nothing.

Your score class one eight.

Man that's a gorgeous picture.

Great job.

Crew getting that one.

Camera's video replay audio font director producer even you Neal even you Neal are doing a great job tonight.

And there's our cameras in center giving you the look behind home plate.

That's one of the looks you just got from that camera.

That's it.

And that center area going for the dive and making the.

Grab.

Wow, what a play Paige Kampman put a star on that one.

And boy.

Was that a great play.

She lays out a little bit of a snow cone there but she pulls it in and she covered a ton of ground.

That one was ticketed.

And once it gets in that gap, it's going all the way to the fence.

So she just certainly saved a double.

Well, that's how Clarksville was able to escape in their opening game against Newman, a ball that went under on a tough defensive play all the way.

And it can change a game.

You just think about that.

I mean, Laura, there's been plenty of times a team loses in that or barely survives in the quarterfinal and they go on to win the whole shooting match.

Clarksville trying to do that right now up four.

Nothing.

Chopper to the left side is going to get through both Wagner and Lodge made efforts, but it just right in that perfect spot.

The base hit with one away.

With a base hit.

They're getting some better swings.

They're pounding it into the ground.

They're getting some level cuts.

Now on Lovren.

Starting to put some runners on.

And we're going to have Joe Murphy come in and run Right.

Did I get that right 16 okay Joe Murphy it's getting late I got to look in the light now.

Make sure I can see big font.

You got.

All right so Wayne here Laura, if they can keep a couple of base runners on here, build a little momentum, but they really.

I'm not saying they have to score this inning, but they really got to try to put a threat on.

I think.

Right.

They do right now.

I think they need to be able to continue this inning.

At least get one, maybe two.

Give them a little momentum, give them a little confidence because they have done well defensively the last two innings.

It's been three up three down the last two innings.

The bunt is oh.

We're gonna have a dead ball on Carson Anderson.

Carson Anderson hit by pitch deck.

Got her right off.

The knee I think that yeah she went right down on that hit pitch.

She was showing the bunt.

Hey Hey.

Did she go.

To second?

Oof Right there I couldn't from that angle.

I can't quite tell where it hit her.

But you thought it was.

The knee?

I thought it was knee, but I think I'm wrong.

I think maybe down on the foot.

That might have responded.

Why the little toe?

But for that bunt is popped up into the screen by Haley Ingram.

So Murphy goes to second.

Anderson at first on the hit by.

Maybe we got a different angle.

This one's going to come up Yeah.

Knee or right there at the white and the black.

Sock me.

The oh one the bunt going right through it is Ingram.

So Ingram a two year starter here at state.

They really like her.

Read off the bat when she's playing defense.

And sometimes that transfers to the plate swing and a miss.

Strike out of Ingram.

Second out of the inning.

You're back up to the top of the order.

Now You've got a tough hitter.

And Whitney who's got some speed.

If she can put it in play make the defense.

Make the play.

Off the glove of Johnson into right field.

They're going to wave the runner home.

No throw at home or third Clarksville.

Now they go back to third and they gets away from.

Who got away from Wagner.

And I thought that thing was going to roll in the left field.

So now Wayne gets a run across on a pretty wild set of plays.

They get this one in right back to second base or the second baseman did not come up throwing to come home with it.

So they were going to give up the run.

But trying to look to see if they could maybe pick somebody off of the bases.

Right.

Unless the ball is right here where they would tag you, settle in from her, from her hand.

Yeah Infield two outs.

Yeah.

It's nothing.

Yeah.

Yep.

We're running on anything.

Seeing the ball.

Seeing the ball.

Yeah.

Seeing the ball.

One in here in the fifth.

Now batting your Wayne Community Schools valedictorian, Ava Whitney.

She's a student of the game.

Let's see what she can do with the bat in this situation.

Runner at third.

Runner at second.

Whitney at the plate.

Lovren's pitch is popped up on the infield, coming out to grab it.

Is the catcher man.

Warren, to end the inning.

Stop the rally and give Clarksville a little bit of momentum, but not before Wayne is able to push another run across here in the fifth.

After five complete Clarksville.

But they got the one run.

Wayne one.

Four is not enough.

We watched enough games.

We know four is not enough.

We got a little happy.

Hit hit hit hit happy last inning okay, relax up there.

Come on.

Who's gonna start it again?

Who's gonna start it again?

It's on three one, two, three hits.

Coaches look calm and cool, but they have nerves all the time.

You know what she's thinking?

Hit, hit hit.

We got to get a hit.

We got to get hit.

But here's what we talk about.

Getting fast out of the start.

Well that's what Clarksville did in the first inning.

Claire Lodge and Emily Manwarren both scored runs as Clarksville got two.

Then in the second, they get a couple more.

It was a hit, a Kate Lodge hit, and then Wayne was able to get a run here in the fifth on a play we just saw as Murphy scored.

And that leads us at 4 to 1 as we move to the sixth here on a gorgeous night in Fort Dodge.

Look off there at the western sky Finally, just a little scattered breeze, but it's just a beautiful night as we're just after 9:00 on Friday, July the 25th, 2025 won a state championship underway here.

We're in deep in it now.

Clarksville, bottom of the order.

Bowling, bowling lodge.

Those have also been hits.

Hits, hits.

So Moore gets Cara Bolen to swing at a pitch.

Up and out of the zone.

And I think this is exactly what Coach Burman was talking about.

Don't get hit happy.

Don't get anxious up at the plate.

Just bring it back.

Take that deep breath.

Settle in make her come to you.

Go ahead and take a pitch.

Yeah yeah.

The one two from Moore is chopped foul.

It'll roll towards the on deck circle to the right Catch.

Let me see That for Kara bowling.

That's all right.

It was all right, wasn't it.

Okay.

Bowling five home runs on the season.

Coming into the tournament now six as she hit the grand slam.

Earlier on top.

Here we go.

Kara.

Now, Laura, if you're Clarksville getting a hit, it's always easier to say get a hit than not.

But what is it in your approach if you've gotten a little antsy or too aggressive, what do you have to do then?

Now to get that hit?

Well, you just.

Well like that swinging in the air, but it's going to be playable to Ingram out number.

One, I think you just you have to calm down.

You can't be so anxious.

Just so hyped up that you're swinging at everything that's coming to you.

Take a deep breath and settle in.

Maybe take a pitch or two.

You know Moore is always in there, and I know you want to attack the first pitch, but she is starting to deal and she is starting to throw some pitches that are starting to move a little bit more, and it's making it tough on these Clarksville hitters.

So I think you have to be very selective about what you're going after in your approach at the plate.

Brooke Bolin fouls off the first pitch to fall behind.

Brooke, one of those eighth graders in the lineup back to back here.

Coming up.

Pitch is a strike.

You've got Brooke Bowlin, an eighth grader.

Kate Lodge as an eighth grader, both contributing.

Big time for this team.

Swing and a miss.

Out.

Number two.

And it's up to Kate Lodge here in the sixth.

That ball just.

That's moving.

And you could see that fortune had to kind of move the glove a little bit.

Kind of crossed her up.

Moore has retired eight in a row going after nine here Kate Lodge swing and miss on the first pitch.

Four of seven in the tournament coming into tonight.

The game winner versus Newman and a double against Saint Ed's.

The oh one.

Rolls over on it.

A couple of hops Whitney over to Trimble.

Out nine in a row.

Three up.

Retired by Moore.

So Clarksville still with the lead but not been able to get a base runner here in the last nine at bats.

So in order Moore retired the order.

All right I want to let you know something here.

As we listen in to Heather fortune quick Hand in knowing where it's at on the plate.

Like have purpose when you're seeing it.

Not just because I want to be patient in there.

Have purpose when you see the ball, then we're going to tee off on your pitch, right?

Your pitch.

If your pitch is one and you're seeing it, well, stay connected.

Hands in and let's go okay.

Let's go.

Extension.

Extension.

We've worked hard on it okay.

Let's go.

Let's get some get some, get some.

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For one, we go to the bottom of the sixth here from Harlan and Hazel Rogers Softball Complex in Fort Dodge, Iowa.

This is the class one, a state championship game.

The Lady Falcons.

They are from Wayne, Iowa, which is Corydon, Allerton Lynnville, Clio and Millerton or Linville.

Sorry, southern Iowa.

And Lynnville is over by Sully.

I know, I know.

I know.

It's Ellie, not l.y for one.

The one one pitch fouled into the.

We go to free.

We're free.

And all 99 counties.

They're the boss likes it when I say that and Clarksville North from the Waterloo area off the Cedar River.

By shellrock.

Everybody knows where Shellrock is, right?

Popped up fouling out of play.

Allie Jo Fortune, Izzy Moore in Bristol.

Peck two for Wayne a good part of the order for them.

This is when they need to make some noise here in this ball game.

They've been your money all year.

How can they cash in here in the late innings?

Right there.

Clarksville.

Take that strikeout on the fortune chases the high pitch for out number one.

Izzy.

I think she had the same reaction as you can see her try to load up and try to catch that pitch out of the zone.

She had the same reaction that her mom had down in the third base box.

They both kind of looked skyward and shook their head.

That was a pitch that was out of the zone.

But that's what happens when you get anxious.

Izzy.

More smacks it hard right at Lodge, who recovers throws, but not in time.

Moore hustling down the line.

She is a competitor and she is clapping because she's on base with one out here in the sixth.

Got up on Lodge out of her glove.

Yeah, she just couldn't.

She got in front of it.

Just could not get that ball picked cleanly and be able to transfer over to her throwing hand.

That's an error charged to lodge first pitch swing by Bristol.

Peck is fouled away.

Moore one more thing on her student council.

State track in the shot put So she's trying to help and do her part.

Bristol Peck trying right now to keep things going.

Moore battled some injuries early on.

Not early on in the off season and has worked her way back.

She said.

It was just she'd go to practice, she'd go to those offseason workouts, maybe not able to do all the drills and participate.

But was there supporting her teammates and they supported her as well.

And she's come back strong.

And boy, she's coming back strong in this ball game.

These last three innings for her in the circle have been tremendous Peck smacks that thing man.

She crushed that thing that almost dented the fence down there when it's short hopped it.

Peck struck out twice tonight trying to see ball.

Hit ball.

Put it in play.

Give Wayne a chance.

The O2 coming from Lovren.

Oh just outside.

Good eye.

Good eye.

You say to Bristol Peck Especially down in the count.

Two strikes this late in the game.

You can maybe chase that pitch trying to make something happen.

The one two is hit in the air towards left.

Lodge comes in, lofts her glove.

They throw to second in time.

Not much that Moore could do on that play off the glove of Kate Lodge.

Not just not able to squeeze it.

In two.

That one just pops out of the glove of Lodge, but she quickly heads up, gets the ball into second and good job of covering up over there by Jenny Johnson standing on second base waiting for that throw to come in.

You're right, there's nothing the base runner can do.

The ball is in the air.

You expect that to be caught.

You're starting to retreat.

And then all of a sudden it pops out and you have to turn and head the other way to try to get into second base safely again.

Hit in the air, this time towards Kampmann in center, right in the center of that logo To end the inning for Wayne.

So another fly out on a good sounding hit, but just not very deep.

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Heather Fortune is going to walk out to the circle and have a conference.

Right now.

You got to play two separate games and right now you're on what defense, right.

You got to play two separate games right now mentally.

Okay.

Your first step has to be quick.

We got to feed the ball.

We got to see what's happening in front of us.

We got to make some plays.

And we still have a chance to bat okay.

This is a three run ball game and you've scored a lot more than three runs in one inning before.

But right now that doesn't matter.

The scoreboard doesn't matter.

Your only job right now is three outs.

Okay, so we got to live on that right here, right now.

Let's go Be the best.

Be the best.

No thank you.

Thank you to the coaches for their insight tonight.

Always learned something from there.

And that's really what it is.

It's it's like the cliche Laura.

It's like what do you have to do.

And you just say it's one at a time.

That hasn't changed.

That that hasn't changed.

But I kind of like the way that she said, hey, we're playing two games.

Let's, let's win this game.

First, the defensive game and then let's get ourselves back up at the plate and try to score a lot of runs.

Claire Lodge takes the first pitch, pops it.

Up.

and Izzy Morris, I got it one away.

A third of the way there on the mission of winning that first game.

So now it's Emily Manwarren, the senior Three seniors in this lineup for Clarksville 30 and four.

We'll give it time here As we have just a moment to.

Get things going.

Clarksville in the Iowa Star Conference 16 zero this year.

First pitch is bunted and it's fouled.

That thing was will be kind and say two inches from being fair.

That thing just almost died.

And what do you do as soon as it's foul.

You sweep it away.

Sweep it away and you know, I like the idea.

I like the fact that trying to make something happen, we've got to got to break this down.

Whitney fields the bunt by Manwarren and throws her out.

Whitney was all over that so quickly As soon as that was down on the ground.

Look at her charge.

She's right there.

Just about three steps.

Able to pick it up and get the out Page Kampmann, junior first pitch ball.

One for three.

Do for wane in their half of the seventh.

Anderson and Ingram 789.

Changeup goes high two and oh.

And since the fourth inning Izzy Moore three up three down fourth fifth and sixth inning.

Trying to do it here in the seventh.

We won't.

The three zero is a ball.

And that ends the streak at 12 in a row.

Retired by Izzy Moore issuing the two out walk to Paige Kampman.

That'll bring Up the third baseman Hannah Langston.

Wang is up for Clarksville here in the seventh.

First pitch strike.

And you can't worry about that walk.

You can't worry about that runner over at first, mindset has to be on this hitter and getting that third out.

Morris pitch is hit in the air towards right, going out is Whitney, but she's called off by Ingram and the third out of the inning is made.

So Moore retires 13 of the last 14 she faced.

Is it enough right.

Bottom of the seventh.

Let's go see the pitch.

Right.

The pressure.

Put the pressure on her, not on you.

Chloe's going to hit for you.

Okay.

Then you're going to come in and run.

Okay?

Everybody's got to want to do their job when they get in there.

You cannot be afraid to fail.

That's the deal.

You can't be afraid to fail.

Get in there.

Let's go.

Let's turn this around right now.

Okay, here we go.

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And don't be afraid to fail.

And I agree with.

I mean, you got to go up there and not be timid.

You got to go up there thinking we've got three outs, we need three runs.

We've got to put runners on base.

We got to figure out a way to do it.

Is that the look of someone looking to extend the season You got to get a runner on base, three outs from a championship for Clarksville.

All right.

Cora Bethards will lead things off the designated player Right.

Here we go.

Goes to work against Sydney.

Lovren here.

Good first pitch strike.

So Lovren going right after.

That zero for two.

Chopper right side on the big hop Johnson over to Bolin.

Out one.

Jimmie Johnson with the toss.

Going to have a pinch hitter here Chloe Sims is going to come in and hit.

Two for three.

Thank you so much coach.

In this position.

So Heather fortune going to the bench.

Looking to get something going going to the bench.

Seeing if Sims can start a rally.

Nobody on here in the seventh.

The zero one from Lovren is swing and a miss.

By Sims.

And it looks like Lovren is just saying.

All right I'm going to show you my best right now I'm going to give it right down the middle.

See if you can hit it And that one just misses.

According to the Clarksville fans to our right One ball two strikes Sydney Lovren winds and fires.

Sims swings and misses.

Strikeout number eight.

And it's down to Halie Ingram to keep things going.

Boy up in the zone again.

Got her to chase to get the big strikeout.

Swing and a.

Miss.

And the Clarksville faithful start to rise to their feet in center.

Sensing a state championship Is close.

The oh one popped in the air heading towards the seats and into the bleachers.

And the orange shirts are getting ready to leap out of their seats.

This late Friday night, as we move past 930.

Clarksville making some noise.

The oh two.

Strike three and it's a state championship again for the Clarksville Indians.

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Lovren got the call.

Got the perfect pitch to get the called third strike to end the ball game and give Clarksville another championship One hour 23 minutes Quick action moving.

It was all early for Clarksville Katie Berman and the Clarksville Indians, another state title, headed back.

With them on the bus home.

Good job.

Good.

Job.

Good job, good job, good game, good game They came out quick They scored right away.

They made it hold up because Izzy Moore came on strong in the middle part of the game and shut them down.

They just could not get the bats going over out of the dugout to make any kind of noise and break into that lead that Clarksville had built early.

Their first title came in.

2020.

And 2025 to the trophy case.

Fans, please direct your attention to the.

Infield for the award ceremony, presenting the class one a All-Tournament team medals is executive director Aaron Gerlich and softball administrator Jason Esslinger.

Here is your class one, a all tournament team for 2025 from Clarksville.

Caitlin Lodge.

From Wayne, Ava Whitney.

Nice job.

From Riverside.

Sophia Fenner.

From Riverside, Adeline Martens.

From Saint Edmund Mariah Myers.

And From Saint Edmund.

Faith Sherburne.

From Clarksville.

Emily Manwarren From Wayne.

Allie.

Joe Fortune.

From Clarksville.

Sydney.

Lauren From Wayne.

Izzy.

Moore.

And your class one, a all tournament team captain for 2025.

From Clarksville.

Claire Lodge.

For the first time in quite a while, Laura.

Not a pitcher.

As the captain, all you have to do is hit two grand slams at the state tournament.

Yeah, that makes it pretty easy.

Kind of cement your spot on the all tournament team.

What a tournament she had and what a what a regional.

I mean, starting from.

Regional in the regional where she hit the other one.

Yeah, yeah.

So that team Mariah Myers, she had a monster home run for Saint eds the other night.

Riverside represented.

In the all tournament team sisters on the team.

Yeah, that makes it fun.

That makes it fun.

And just all those players out there, all of them had amazing tournaments, all of a lot of them are going to continue their softball careers here in the state of Iowa.

A couple of them still have some eligibility here in Iowa.

We'll still get to see them play.

In addition to receiving medallions, every participating player will receive a commemorative softball provided by Iowa Farm Bureau, title sponsor of the Girls Athletic Union, presenting awards are members of the IGA Board of Directors.

Congratulations to the runners up in class one, a head coach, Heather fortune, and the Wayne Community Lady Falcons on an outstanding 2025 softball season And your 2025 class one A state softball champions.

Head coach Katie Berman and the Clarksville Indians.

They won the title in 2020.

Here again in 2025.

And that Clarksville team, they love their softball.

They got themselves another reason to celebrate.

Laura.

Yeah, they really do.

They had an amazing tournament.

The power showed up for them as the way they were hitting all season long, they hit the ball very hard and hit it out of the park.

It continued to sail out of the park and they got great pitching tonight as well and great defense.

Pella started us off winning their first ever title, then Waukee, Northwest Williamsburg, Van Meter and Clarksville puts a cap on our 2025.

We danced a little.

We laughed, we smiled.

We had fun.

It is so great that you have joined us all weekend long here.

We're back for volleyball, then football and a whole lot of more and more memories to come.

Congratulations to everybody.

Thank you.

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