Defeating #1 on back to back nights

[Herdcyclones]

Roland-Story pulled off that interesting feat. They defeated Class 1A #1 Mason City Newman Catholic on Tuesday night 2-1, and then on Wednesday beat 2A #1 North Polk 3-2. The Norsemen also lost to North Polk 1-0 in the opener of the double header.

R-S has some good and deep pitching, though their offense is a bit suspect. In those 3 games, I'm not sure R-S scored an earned run. In the Newman win, the Knights had 3 errors in the bottom of the 7th to give the Norse the walk off win. In the Comet win, NP had 4 errors.

I'm not ready to crown the Norsemen state champs, but that's still quite a feat to beat a #1 on back to back nights. The Norse might not even get out of their district. Ogden and St. Eds are in the same district, and been playing pretty well.

 

[mtdew_fever]

That's a feat that doesn't happen very often. I'd agree, Roland-Story has a good chance of making a nice run in the playoffs next month and especially so if they can get some timely hitting.

Overall, the Heart of Iowa Conference continues to impress me.

 

[icu81222]

Very impressive. From reading this board, I was starting to think that N Polk was going to walk away from everyone in 2A. Granted, they still could.

Not following too closely, who would be the likely contenders in 2A right now?

Obviously N Polk and Roland Story would be up there. Who else?

 

[rengstra]

Carrol-Kemper will be in the mix in 2A