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Kiya Steger (Western Dubuque) – The senior leads the Mississippi Valley Conference’s Valley Division with a 0.78 earned run average and eight wins through nine starts. She is 8-0 with 75 strikeouts in 54 innings of work while allowing just six earned runs and 11 walks allowed. She is allowing a league-best 0.82 walks plus…

Braxton Bormann (Clayton Ridge/Central) – The sophomore catcher shares the state lead, regardless of class, with 12 runners thrown out attempting to steal. Hudson’s Tate Van Dyke has also thrown out 12 runners. Bormann is fielding at a .960 clip and is hitting .286 in 15 games.

Gage Bishop (Dubuque Hempstead) – The senior right-hander struck out five batters in a complete-game three-hit shutout to lead the Mustangs to a 9-0 victory at Dubuque Senior on Thursday night. The following day, his walk-off single inside the left-field line gave the Mustangs a 7-6 home win over the Rams.

The sophomore left-hander earned a save against city rival Senior on Wednesday, then tossed a 13-strikeout complete-game two-hitter at Cedar Falls two days later. At the plate, Cummer went 9-for-15. Cummer is 3-0 with a 0.86 ERA and 39 strikeouts in 24 1/3 innings of work. He is hitting .431 (22-for-51) with four doubles, one…

Cam Templeton (Bellevue Marquette) — The junior outfielder/shortstop ranks fourth in Iowa Class 2A with a .605 batting average through the first 13 games of the season. He is 26-for-43 with six doubles, one triple, one home run and 16 RBIs. Templeton leads Class 2A with 31 stolen bases in 32 attempts and ranks third…

Mallory Tomkins was 17/26 at the plate with a .654 batting average and an .656 on base percentage. She scored 10 runs in the 6 games and was 7 for 7 on stolen bases. In one game she was 5/5 at the plate and had 3 stolen bases.

Josie Kruser (Cuba City) — The sophomore went 4-for-4 with a key two-run home run to help the Cubans defeat Horicon, 9-3, in a Wisconsin Division 4 sectional softball final in Boscobel. The No. 4-ranked Cubans improved to 22-2 and advanced to the state tournament for the first time in program history. Kruser’s two-run shot…

Fennimore 4×800 relay — The quartet of Carter Bunn, Riley Foreyt, Nick Needham and Isaac Henkel won its second straight Wisconsin Division 3 state championship on Friday afternoon in La Crosse. They ran a 7.58.44 to beat their previous school record, set last year. Bunn, Foreyt and Needham are all seniors, while Henkel has one…

On the week, Claudia was 9 for 14 with 2 doubles, 4 runs scored, 5 stolen bases for Cascade Cougar softball team.

Angel Reyes (East Dubuque) – The senior struck out 16, drove in the tying run and scored the winning run Saturday to lead the Warriors to a 4-3 victory at Forreston in an Illinois Class 1A sectional final. East Dubuque advanced to the supersectional for the first time in program history. For the second consecutive…