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Prairie moved up one spot to No.7 in this week's Iowa High School Baseball Coaches Association Class 4A rankings released Monday.
Xavier held onto the No.10 spot.
Ankeny is ranked No.1 in Class 4A and Sioux City Heelan tops Class 3A.
Landen Akers was standing on third base with two outs in the top of the seventh inning Wednesday night when Cedar Rapids Washington assistant coach Javier Rivera came over from the third-base coaching box with a startling idea.
"Steal home," Rivera told Akers.
Huh?
"Yeah, I thought it was risky at first," said Akers, a speedy sophomore. "But then I thought I had a chance. I had to go."
Gabi Carter drove in the winning run with a base hit in the bottom of the eighth inning Tuesday night as Prairie trimmed Iowa City High, 6-5, in the first game of a Mississippi Valley Conference doubleheader at Prairie.
Iowa City High blanked Prairie, 3-0, in the second game.
Prairie fell one game behind the Xavier Saints in the Valley Division of the Mississippi Valley Conference with two games left in the regular season. Xavier has an 18-6 record in the Valley Division and Prairie is 17-7.
DUBUQUE - Sophomore Drew Yanecek was promoted to the varsity Monday and helped the Prairie Hawks snap a four-game losing streak.
Yanecek gave up only one run in six innings as the No.8 Hawks trimmed Dubuque Hempstead, 3-1, in the second game of a Mississippi Valley Conference doubleheader in Dubuque.
Hempstead won the first game, 12-8, with a six-run rally with two outs in the bottom of the sixth inning.
Last Updated on Tuesday, 02 July 2013 11:04The Cedar Rapids Prairie baseball team did not realize its shiny new spot in the Class 4A rankings this week came with a curse.
The Hawks popped into the IHSBCA rankings in the No.8 spot Monday and promptly got rained out Monday night. On Tuesday, they lost 8-0 to North Scott in a hastily scheduled game. And on Friday, the wheels came off the wagon.
Prairie squandered a pair of seemingly comfortable leads Friday and lost a Mississippi Valley Conference twinbill to Dubuque Wahlert, 5-4 in eight innings and 11-9, at the wind-swept Prairie field.
The twin defeats cost Prairie the No.1 seed in the Class 4A substate tournament that begins in three weeks and dearly cost the Hawks in the conference race.
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