Ryan Murken

Your Prep Sports

TIFFIN – With just one senior on the roster of a team that won 31 games the future is certainly bright for Clear Creek Amana.

That potential for future success didn’t take the sting out of the Clippers’ season-ending loss on Tuesday.

Tenth-ranked North Scott scored four unanswered runs on its way to a 5-1 win over seventh-ranked Clear Creek Amana in the Class 4A, Region 6 title game in front of a pack crowd in Tiffin.

“That’s what we talked about in the huddle is as bad as this feels the best thing we having going for us is we lose one kid,” Clear Creek Amana Jodie Scheetz said. “It’s tough to lose a pitcher like (senior McKenna Kelley) but we will be strong.”

Clear Creek Amana closed the season 31-9, the most wins for the Clippers in a season since 2012 but couldn’t secure its first trip to state since 2021.

A Class 4A semifinalist a year ago, North Scott (29-11) got a strong outing from senior pitcher Chevelle Kingsley to return to the state tournament for the second consecutive season.

North Scott will face Norwalk (33-7) in a 4A quarterfinal on Monday at 12:15 p.m. at Rogers Sports Complex in Fort Dodge.

“The success means a lot to me,” Kingsley said. “The girls have to be there to back me. It means a lot to me that I have a team around me to back me up.”

Kingsley was brilliant on Tuesday allowing just one unearned run on four hits while striking out two and walking two.

North Scott played nearly flawless defense behind its senior hurler and got three hits from freshman catcher Laney Welge.

“We expected them to hit the ball, every team is going to hit the ball,” Kingsley said. “It was really special for me that they were there to back me up.”

North Scott took an early 1-0 lead in the first inning when Tinley Osterberg led off the game with a double and scored on a Welge RBI single to right field.

Clear Creek Amana tied the game at 1-1 in the bottom of the inning.

Junior Elizabeth Timmerman led off with a single and scored on a passed ball.

Kingsley settled in after the first and retiring 12 Clippers in a row before a one-out walk to Kinsey Schulte in the fifth.

“She threw well,” Scheetz said. “We just never had that big hit.”

North Scott snapped a 1-1 tie with two runs in the fourth on RBI singles by Aubrey Toohey and Osterberg.

The Lancers added single runs in the fifth and seventh innings.

Meanwhile, Clear Creek Amana couldn’t get anything going against Kinsley who allowed just two hits, singles by Turner Patrick in the sixth and Lizzie Pasbrig in the seventh after the first inning.

“It was really the timely hits,” Scheetz said. “Every time they got a runner on base they got them in and we didn’t do that. We left them loaded in the first.”

The roster returns nearly intact for Clear Creek Amana next season led by Kyla Schulte, Patrick, Timmerman, Pasbrig, Sadie Hebl and Brenna Williams.

“They worked really hard in the offseason and they worked hard all year,” Scheetz said. “They got after it, they wanted it the timely hits just weren’t there.”

North Scott                            100  210  1  –  5  8  1

Clear Creek Amana              100  000  0  –  1  4  3             

W – Chevelle Kingsley                       L – McKenna Kelley

2B – NS: Laney Welge (2), Tinley Osterberg

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