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4S The Dfs Moines Register Saturday, Aiisto, 1995 State Softball Tournament O'Dell Leads 1-0 Victory in Class 3-A Final Ottumwa denies No. 1 Charles City -IS X. I lANSr.VTllr.KKGIKTKR Lisbon's Kristin Fairiey, center, and Crystal Mod, right, relish their title. Second-ranked Lisbon beat No. 1 Woodward-Granger, 4-1.

Lisbon repeats in 1-A, tips Woodward-Granger Kruse scored on the play. Lee's hit seemed to stir her team's, offense. Lee, who previously had two singles in the tournament, said she was hitting home runs in practice. She was waiting for an opportunity to hit with power when it counted. "I just felt comfortable and hit the ball," Lee said.

"I figured I was due for a hit." Lisbon added three more runs in the sixth inning. Samantha Light reached third base on a throwing error by Bice. Light scored on Kristin Fairley's single. Fairiey later scored on a bunt by Stamp. Stamp was out in a rundown on the play, but Stacy Light singled, advanced on an error and scored on Jennifer Frey's single.

Woodward-Granger's only run came in the sixth inning. Kim Cullen reached second base on an error and scored on consecutive groundouts. LISBON ab bi WOODWARD ab bi Fairiey cl 4 1 1 0 Gunderson rf 3 0 0 0 Swerslb 3 0 0 0 Cullen 3b 3 10 0 Stamp 2 0 0 1 Peters cl 3 0 0 0 St Ugntrf 3 110 Weddelllb 2 0 0 1 Lee 3 0 10 Vicep 3 0 0 0 Kruse pr 0 10 0 Coenen ss 3 0 0 0 Freyss 3 0 1 1 Seeman 3 0 10 Clark 3b 3 0 0 1 Melton dh 2 0 2 0 Storn 2b 3 0 1 0 Seeman pr 0 0 0 0 Opalzor 0 0 0 0 Nelson Dr 0 0 0 0 Sa L'gntdh 2 10 0 Leonard 2b 3 0 0 0 Moeic 0 0 0 0 Maierlt 0 0 0 0 Totals 26 4 5 3 Touts 25 1 3 1 By CHRISTOPHER NELSON RhMSTTJi Staff Whitt.r Fort Dodge, la. Aschere O'Dell pitched a three-hit shutout, turning the tables on top-ranked Charles City's two tournament victories and leading lOth-ranked Ottumwa to a 1-0 victory in the state Class 3-A softball final Friday. "I didn't watch (Charles City) play," O'Dell said.

"Coach (Frank Huston) scouts the other team. I told him I didn't want to know what they hit and where to pitch. "The reason I pitched so well was because it was my last game and my last season. This is what I've been looking for for five years." It was the second title for Ottumwa (42-7), which also won in 1976. For Charles City, the final was its fourth.

In 11 tournament appearances, Charles City has never won a state title, finishing second in 1982, 1985 and 1988. "It was the kind of game we played all through the tournament," Charles City Coach Jerry Newton said. "We won two of them and this one turned out the other way." Charles City (40-4) beat sixth-ranked Sioux City North, 1-0, and eighth-ranked Linn-Mar of Marion, 1-0, in its first two games. "We just didn't handle their pitcher," Newton said. O'Dell retired the first 13 batters, until Laura Elfers singled with one out.

She finished with nine strikeouts and walked none. "That was the real Aschere O'Dell you saw tonight," Huston said. "She saved her best for tonight." Charles City hadn't allowed a run in its first two games. But Ottumwa ended the scoreless inning streak at 18 innings when it scored its only run in the fifth inning. Tia Trytten led off the fifth inning with a single and took second base on Holly Hoover's sacrifice bunt.

After Kim Krambeck pinch ran for Trytten, Angie Coker doubled to center field to score Krambeck. Coker said she was surprised she got a good pitch to hit. "I knew Kim was on second," she said. "It was right down the middle. I was surprised to see it in the champi- Second baseman Shana Manning of ByJOHNNAUGHTON RMfeTKK Stmt Wkitkk Fort Dodge, la.

At the start of the season, Paige Stamp said she wouldn't have believed her team could win another state title. Fortunately for Lisbon, she was mistaken. Second-ranked Lisbon beat top-ranked Woodward-Granger, 4-1, Friday at Harlan Rogers Park to repeat as the state Class 1 -A champion. Lisbon became the first school to repeat since Ankeny won titles in 1978, 1979 and 1980. "A lot of teams do it once, but very few do it back-to-back," said Stamp, who was named captain of the Class 1-A all-tournament team.

Last season, Lisbon beat East Marshall of LeGrand, 7-0, for the championship. The first few innings of the game were played in a light rain. Then the sun came out and the field warmed up. So did Lisbon's bats. The game was anticipated as a pitching duel.

Stamp is a junior who finished the season with 459 strikeouts. Woodward-Granger pitcher Jen Bice is an eighth-grader who had thrown shutouts in her team's two previous tournament games. Bice retired the first 13 batters she faced before Cathy Lee tripled in the fifth inning. With two outs, Angie Clark hit a ground ball to shortstop Jessica Coenen that was bobbled for an error. Pinch runner Brianna lost to Clarke of Osceola, 1-0, Friday Sports Iowa Scene Menace advance to finale Josh Bahr scored a goal with 1 minute expired in overtime to give the Des Moines Menace amateur soccer team a 3-2 victory over the Austin Lone Stars.

That set up an all-Iowa championship game today in the United Systems of Independent Soccer League's Premier Central Regional Tournament. The Sioux City Breeze defeated the Oklahoma City Slickers, 7-0, in the other semifinal Friday night at Hoover High School. The Menace led, 2-1, until Austin's Darin Talley scored with 22 seconds remaining to force overtime. At 1 minute into the overtime, Chad Crandall kicked the ball in from the corner of the field, and passed it to Venti Stoimirov. Stoimi rov maneuvered around a defender and passed the ball to Bahr, who kicked it into the goal to the right of the goalkeeper to end the game.

"I just knew to put it on goal. Luck was with me," Bahr said. "We get a little luck in some of these games, and I guess luck was on our side tonight. We played hard as a team. It was a team effort, we worked hard together and played pretty well.

We never gave up. Aaron Leventhal scored the first goal at 8:24, off a pass from Tony Jones. Leventhal dribbled the ball toward the goal, stopped, moved to set up his shot, and delicately passed it to the right of the keeper. Matt Presley of Austin tied the score, 1-1, when he beat Menace goalkeeper Casey Mann 24:10 into the game. Vinnie Darnell scored 4:51 into the second half off a pass from Brian Hann.

Darnell kicked the ball into the upper right corner of the goal, past Lone Star goalkeeper Micah Grossman, The Menace, seeded third in the tournament, will face their in-state rival, top-seeded Sioux City, today at 8 p.m. in the championship game. The Menace split two games with Sioux City, losing in the season opener, 5-1, and winning at home, 3-1. Sioux City, led by three goals each from Brian Adams and Richard Markham, beat Oklahoma City, 7-0. Markham kicked off the scoring 1 9 seconds into the game.

"We had real good practices this week," Markham said. "We basically focused all week to get the No. 1 seed. We'd rather play Des Moines than Austin. It wouldn't be an easier game, but we've already played them, and we know what we're going up against." Tickets are $12 for adults, and $6 for children 19 and under.

Jacqueline Day Auto Racing Big day for Penske, Petty Richard Petty is the winningest driver in NASCAR Winston Cup history, so how come he is constantly turned away from Victory Lane as a car owner? Roger Penske is the most successful car owner in American racing, so how come his star-studded team couldn't qualify for the Indianapolis 500? Today, they both get a chance to answer questions. Petty's No. 43 Pontiac, with Bobby Hamilton behind the wheel, will start from the outside of the first row in the second Brickyard 400 at Indianapolis Motor Speedway. Jeff Gordon, who won last year's inaugural race, took the pole position Thursday in a Chevrolet Monte Carlo. Friday's scheduled qualifying was rained out.

Recent success hasn't been a problem for Penske, but most people con tinue to focus on his most embarrassing moment when his Indy-car duo of Al Unser Jr. and Emerson Fittipal-dL both two-time 500 winners, failed to qualify for the Indy race. Sullivan released Danny Sullivan, who broke his pelvis in a crash Sunday during the Marlboro 500 at Michigan International Speedway, was released from a hospital Friday. With four races left, Sullivan could miss the rest of the IndyCar series. Drag racing at Eddyville The Weekend of Thunder at Eddyville Raceway Park begins today with the $30,000 Pro-Mod Shootout, expected to attract some of the nation's best IHRA pro-modified cars and drivers.

Gates open at 8 a.m. Eliminations are Sunday. Track and Field Track honor For the first time in the International Amateur Athletics Federation's 83-year history, two women were elected to the 27-mem-ber council. One was Nawal El Moutawakel-Bennis of Morocco, the 400-meter hurdles champion from Iowa State at the 1984 Olympics in Los Angeles. The other was Abby Hoffman, formerly a Canadian distanc runner.

TTl FOCUS CLASS 3-A M. VALLEY 1, LINN-MAR (MARION) 0 Fort Dodge, U. Jina Jensen went 3-for-3 and drove in the only run as 17th-ranked West Des Momes Valley took third place against eighth-ranked Linn-Mar of Marion on Friday at Harlan Rogers Park. Angie Henderson singled to lead off the fourth inning, went to second base on a wrtd pitch and scored on Jensen's double. Sarah Ripperger and Stephanie Allison combined on a three-hrtter as Valley finished 40-15.

Linn-Mar ciosed at 39-17. VaHry 000 100 0 1 2 Liftn-Mjr (Marion) 000 000 0 0 3 1 Ripoerger Alkson 4) and Brooks. Otactwovitch and Mann Allison (29): Otachnovitch (33-11). MUSCATINE 5, ANKENY 4 Fort Dodge, la. Two Ankeny throwing errors the ninth inning let fourth-ranked Muscatine score twice for a victory in the fifth-place game.

Jamie Kitchen was 3-for-4 and drove in a run to lead Muscatine. Jenny Voss was 2-for-4 and drove in a run to lead seventh-ranked Ankeny (34-10). Voss (27-7) allowed nine hits, struck out five and walked one. Four of Muscatine's runs were unearned. Muscatine pitcher Knsty Middagh (29-2) allowed six hits, struck out two and walked none.

Three of Ankeny runs were unearned. Muscatine finished 49-4. Ankeny Mutcattrw .100 020 0014 6 3 -010 002 002 9 2 Voss and farmer. MidOagh and Calvert. TV Md-dagti (29-2).

l-Voss (27-7) SIOUX CITY NORTH 6, CEDAR RAPIDS JEFFERSON 1 Fort Dodge, la. Manssa Lee and JiU Biggerstaff each had two hits as sixth-ranked Sioux City North won the seventh-place game. North scored its first run of the tournament in the third inning, then used three hits, two walks and an error for four runs in the fourth inning. Ninth-ranked Jefferson (44-1 0) scored its only run of the tournament in the seventh inning. Sioux City North finished 27-6.

Cedar Rapids Jefferson 000 000 11 3 2 Stoui Crty North 001 410 6 1 Quass ano Kaplan. LaMaster and Backnan. LaMasler (27). I Quass (2S-7) CLASS 2-A INDEPENDENCE 4, ANAMOSA 1 Fort Dodge, la. Independence scored four unearned runs in the eighth inning to defeat 17th-ranked Anamosa and win third place in the Class 2-A soft-ball tournament.

Lisa Olson allowed no earned runs and struck out eight while Stephanie Staveley and Lyndsey Miller had two hits each for Independence (42-12). Andi Oelagardelle had three hits for Anamosa (37-13). Independence 000 010 03 4 a 3 .000 001 001 6 3 Anamou Oison and Toale: Graver and Bauer. Olson (23-9) Grover (34-9). WEBSTER CITY 7, WILLIAMSBURG 4 Fort Dodge, la.

Jenny Wirtz pitched a complete-game victory and drove in two runs to grve Webster City fifth place. Wirtz had a high-school record of 108-27. Webster City built a 7-0 lead before Williamsburg scored four times in the seventh inning. Both teams had 1 1 hits. Ashley Hilpipre had three singles.

scored twice and drove in one run for Webster City, which finished 43-12. Williamsburg was 28-8. Ctty -113 002 07 11 9 WlUiarmburg .000 000 44 11 i wrr ana Hagiand: Jones. Zuoer (b) and uracoe. Wirtz (30-9) Jones(17-S).

MAPLE VALLEYANTHON-OTO 5, STORM LAKE 3 Fort Dodge, la. Melissa Sohm sin gled in two runs as seventh-ranked Maple Valley of MaptetonAnthon-Oto won the seventh-place game in 10 innings against third-ranked Storm Lake. The score was 1-1 after seven innings and both teams scored in the ninth inning. Maple ValleyAnthon-Oto finished 29-8; Storm Lake closed 29-8. Maple Valley Arrthon-Oto .001 000 001 3 5 8 1 Storm Lake Ml 000 001 1 3 Moser and Sadler: Schuler.

Orkx (5) and Wilson. Moser (27-4). I Dirtoi (14-5). CLASS 1-A EAST MARSHALL 13, ARMSTRONG-RINGSTED 3 Fort Dodge, la. Shawna Burns won her 100th game and third-ranked East Marshall of LeGrand scored five runs to end the game in the sixth inning and win third place in Class 1-A.

Burns held fifth-ranked Armstrong-Ringsted to three hits. Amanda Bailey and Tara Nicholson each had three hits; Bailey scored three times and Nicholson drove in three runs. East Marshall had 14 hits. Burns, a senior who will play at Clarke College in Dubuque, had a 34-6 record this season. Her career mark is 100-1 5.

East Marshall finished 36-7; Arm-strong-Ringsted was 37-6. Armstronf-Rrngttad -100 020 3 3 7 UsIMarstvMt .520 105 13 14 1 Breuer and Draeer. Burns and Rhmehart. Burns (34-6. Br euer (31-4) NORTH POLK 3.

IKM (MANILLA) 1 Fort Dodge, la. Randa Romick hit a two-run single in the eighth inning to give 12th-ranked North Polk of Alleman fifth place in Class 1-A. Shannon Nelson opened the eighth inning with a single and was sacrificed to second base by Lori Larson. Jenny Bac-cus singled Nelson to third base before Romick delivered her third hit. North Polk's Jodi Christensen won her 35th game by allowing five hits.

It's the second-most victories by an eighth-grader, behind Mindy Farnsworth of Ottumwa who won 36 games in 1990. Kingsley-Pierson's Ann Coughenour won 35 in 1977. North Polk finished 37-10; IKM 30-18. North Polk 000 010 02 3 1 IKM (Manilla) 010 000 001 5 1 Cnristensen and Romich A Christensen and Carter Cnristensen (35-10). A Cnristensen (30-16) UNDERWOOD 4, POSTVILLE 1 Fort Dodge, la.

Laci Tiarks threw a one-hitter and drove in two runs to give 19th-ranked Underwood seventh place. Lori Casson and Tiarks each had two hits to pace a nine-hit attack. Underwood finished 34-13; Postville 26-19 Underwood 001 111 0 4 9 3 Postville 100 000 01 1 3 Ti.jifcs and Ross Nuehrmg and Day Tiarks (31-12) Nuenring (24-1 7). CLASS 1-A FRIDAY'S GAMES Seventh place: Underwood 4. Postvilte 1 Fifth place: North Polk 3.

IKM (Manilla) 1 (8 innings) Third-place: East Marshall 13. Armstrong-Ringsted 3 First-place: Lisbon 4. Woodward-Granger 1 CLASS 2-A FRIDAY'S GAMES Seventh place: Maple Valley (Maple-ton Anthon-Oto 5. Storm Lake 3 1 0 innings) Fifth-place: Webster City 7. Williamsburg 4 Third place: Independence 4.

Anamosa 1 (8 innings) First place: Clarke (Osceola) 1 ADM (Adel) 0 CLASS 3-A FRIDAY'S GAMES Seventh place: Sioux City North 6. Cedar Rapids Jefferson 1 Fifth place: Muscatine 5. Ankeny 4 Third place: M. Valley 1, Linn-Mar (Manon)O First place: Ottumwa 1. Charles City 0 onship game.

It was right down the middle and it was mine." Charles City didn't threaten to score until the seventh inning. Stacy Simerson singled leading off and Ka-thy Merten ran for her. Two outs later, Elfers singled, moving Merten to third base. Lindsay Reams, who drove in the team's only run Thursday against Linn-Mar, hit a sharp ground ball up the middle that O'Dell nearly didn't field. But she threw Reams out to end the game.

OTTUMWA Daroey lb Ernst 30 Barker ct Mis Varner rf Oep Morrow pr M.n Varner If Trytten 2b Krambeck pr Hooverc Coker ss Handy pr Total Ottumwa CHAR. CITY 0 De Guenthr cf 0 Srnerson 2b 0 Merten or 0 Nierwaagss 0 Rokjhc 0 Erlersrt 0 Reams 30 0 Waldorf 0 Da Guenthr lb 0 Panterp 0 bi 0 0 1 Totals 23 0 3 0 ..000 010 01 Charles City 000 000 00 Niejwaag LOB ottumwa 4. Charles City 3 28 Coker Hoover Ottumwa IP ODeN 2-6 7 Charles City Panter L. 28-4 7 El SO 3 0 0 0 10 ER 68 SO 5 110 1 Whitey. Loerwald.

Ok. Powell 1 00 ADM of Adel reacts after her team CLASS 1-A Paige Stamp-n. Lisbon; Jen Bice. Wood-ward-Oranger: Megan Rhinehart. East Marshall.

IB Renee Sievers. Lisbon: 3B Maria Frankl. IKM (Manilla): SS Jenny Baccus. North Polk: OF Kristm Fairiey, Lisbon: Brandie Peters. Woodward-Granger: Tara Nicholson.

East Marshall: DH Rachel Melton. Woodward-Granger; UT Kns Breuer. Armstrong-Ringsted Note No second baseman selected. CLASS 2-A Kelly Schade. Clarke (Osceola).

Came Olson. ADM (Adel): Lisa Cowling. Clarke (Osceola); IB Kim Detagardeile Anamosa: 2B Shana Manning. ADM (Adel); 3B Kan Worley. ADM (Adel): SS Michelle Stover.

Clarke (Osceola). Of Ashley Hilpipr-e. Webster City. Angela Chipman. Williamsburg: Arx Deiagardelte, Anamosa: UT StepharHe Staveley.

Independence. CLASS 3-A Susan Panter-n. Charles City: Aschere O'Dell. Ottumwa; Tnsta Calvert. Muscatine.

1 Tara BuzzeH. Ankeny; 2B Michelle Junod. Ankeny 3B Reams. Charles City. SS Cans-sa Seller.

Sioux Crty North: OF Ang Henderson. WDM Valley: Amy Barker. Ottumwa. Misty Varner. Ottumwa; UT Vonya Olachnovitch.

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KKilSTtX Mindy Crannell of ADM of Adel holds the Class 2-A runner-up trophy while being consoled. ft '(iijl iiiim in. inimiiui; -m ii ML I i I -rt i i i J. a. si fcSLS I Op 'V Ufo-'t 1 Pk Clarke beats ADM for trophy in 2-A CLARKE Continued from.

Page IS sailed high. Petersen, hunched over with her hands on her knees, saw her chance to score. "I just took off," Petersen said. "I knew it." After injuring her ankle, Peterson wore a brace for several games, but it broke. In a regional final game against defending 2-A champion Carlisle, she instead had her ankle taped.

A self-described superstitious player, she used tape on the ankle during the team's three state-tournament victories. Schade, who held ADM to three hits, finished her high school career with 1,619 strikeouts, 506 this season, and nine in the game. It was her 1 28th career victory. Schade, who will join the softball program at Simpson, had a 35-7 record this season. Clarke did not commit an error.

Schade allowed one hit and walked one in the nal three innings. "She got better as the game went on," ADM Coach Steve Schlafke said. "We had opportunities to get to her "You come to the state tournament for the first time and win Murr said. "That's a great thing for the kids at Clarke." ADM had defeated Clarke, 1-0, in a regional final game last season. Clarke got a runner to third in the first inning, then got two on base in the second and fifth innings.

ADM got leadof batters on base in the first three innings. In the first, Olson was caught in a rundown between third and home. "I'd rather have gotten here two years in a row than not at all," shortstop Manda Nelson said. ADCL ab bi CLARKE Cson 3 0 3 0 Langnott dh Richardscf 3 0 0 0 Powell 3b Manning 2b 2 0 0 0 Schade Cranneurl 3 0 0 0 Cowimgc Nelson ss 2 0 0 0 Rowe ct Tomaslb 1 0 0 0 Stover ss Nichols pr 0 0 0 0 Hartman lb Worley 3b 3 0 0 0 Lower 2b Morkrt 3 0 0 0 Petersen 2b Tryonc 2 0 0 0 Lew pr Lowe ii Paulrf Totals 22 0 3 0 Totals ADM (Adel) 000 000 00 Clarke (Osceola) 000 000 1 1 Crannell. Nelson.

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