The senior pitcher was 3-0 on the mound and also batted .615 as the Westerners won the state title. Harris tossed a complete game two hitter with six strikeouts and was also three-of-four at the plate in a victory over Newell-Fonda in the championship game. She finished with four stolen bases in three games and scored five runs.
Class 2A: Nicole Fisher, BCLUW (Conrad)
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The senior catcher batted .556 with a home run, four RBI and scored four runs as the Comets won a second straight title. Fisher homered in an opening round win over Hinton and also was two-of-three at the plate and scored two runs in a victory over Wayne of Corydon in the championship round.
Class 3A: Jordan Gronewold, Carlisle
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The senior pitcher won three games in leading the Wildcats to a state title. In 21 innings of work Gronewold gave up only three runs and struck out 11 batters. Gronewold tossed a complete game four-hitter in a win over Keokuk in the championship game. She also helped her own cause at the plate by driving in a pair of runs.
Class 4A: Laney Abrahamson, West Des Moines Valley
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The sophomore left fielder batted .400 in leading the Tigers to the state championship. Abrahamson doubled twice and drove in a pair of runs in a semifinal round victory over North Scott. She also doubled and drove in two runs in a victory over top ranked Des Moines East in the championship contest.
Class 3A semifinals ahead
July 28, 2010 By
Friday’s Class 3A semifinal round match-ups are set at the state high school baseball tournament in Des Moines.
Consecutive doubles by Kellen Glover and Jacob Cunningham pushed across the tying and go-ahead runs in the bottom of the fourth as Knoxville rallied to down Independence 5-3. The top-seeded Panthers improve to 25-9 and next up will take on Charles City.
The Comets scored three runs in the top of the tenth inning then held off Storm Lake for a 4-3 win. Storm Lake’s Aaron Krier sent the game into extra innings with a home run in the bottom of the seventh, the first round-tripper of the tournament.
Central DeWitt and eighth-ranked Glenwood collide in the other 3A semifinal.
Central DeWitt scored five runs in the top of the third to take command in a 7-3 victory over Carlisle. Brandon Jasper had three hits and drove in three runs for the Sabers.
Glenwood pounded out 15 hits in an 11-2 win over Algona. Kyle Wheeler had four hits for the Rams who scored four runs in the fifth inning and five more in the sixth to break the game open.
Getting public intox charges erased
July 28, 2010 By
The Iowa Court of Appeals has sided with prosecutors in a case involving a former northeast Iowa college student who had two “public intox” convictions before his 21st birthday.
In May of 2006 Samuel Myers was charged with public intoxication in Black Hawk County. Almost a year later Myers was convicted of second-offense public intoxication.
Myers applied to have those convictions erased from his record, arguing he’d graduated from college, undergone substance abuse treatment and made positive changes in his life. He’d also reached the legal drinking age of 21 by then.
A district court granted Myers’ request to be exonerated, but state prosecutors appealed, citing his second public intox charge about a year after the first. State law lets people appeal to have their public intoxication convictions expunged if they go for two years without any other criminal convictions.
The Court of Appeals has ruled that two year period had not expired in Myers’ case.
Polk County deputy appeals drunk driving conviction
July 28, 2010 By
The Iowa Court of Appeals has ruled on a deputy sheriff’s drunk driving conviction.
On a cold night in February of last year a state trooper found Polk County Deputy Sheriff John Braswell and his girlfriend asleep in a black Mercedes that was parked outside a convenience store in West Des Moines. The engine was running and the car’s lights were on.
Braswell appealed his drunken driving conviction, arguing the test which showed his blood alcohol level at .137 should not have been used against him during his jury trial. The appeals court has agreed, ruling the test was taken more than two hours after the deputy’s arrest, despite the “concerted effort” of the state trooper to get it done. Such tests, by law, are to be taken within two hours of a drunken driving arrest.
The case now goes back to district court, for a new trial — one in which the blood alcohol test cannot be cited as evidence.
One of the judges on the Iowa Court of Appeals wrote a dissent, arguing his colleagues had come to the “erroneous” conclusion about the timing of the arrest, and he cited to “stalling” tactics the deputy sheriff may have engaged in to delay the test.
