The Mid-Prairie Golden Hawk softball team suffered a pair of setbacks in River Valley Conference action Tuesday at No. 4 Durant, falling to the Wildcats 6-1 in game one and 5-0 in game two.

In a pair of contests heard on AM and FM KCII, game one saw missed opportunities for the Golden Hawks with Abby Tornow tripling to lead off the game and stranded over at third base. The Hawks would get the lead-off batter on base in three of the first four innings but were unable to get on the board. Durant scored once in the second and three times in the third to jump out to a 4-0 lead. In the fourth Mid-Prairie got on the board when Anna Vilovchik tripled to right and came home on a wild pitch to get the Hawks within 4-1 but the Wildcats scored two insurance runs in the sixth to seal the win. Mid-Prairie was led by Tornow at the plate in game one, she was three for four with a stolen base. Cassidy Rourke took the loss in the circle working five plus innings, giving up five runs on eight hits.
The night cap was all about Durant pitching with Wildcat hurler Jenna Lawson controlling action and throwing a perfect game. Lawson sat down all 21 Mid-Prairie batters she faced in the contest in order and striking out nine, she only got to a three ball count on two hitters the entire game. The Wildcats did enough offensively behind her to get the win scoring twice in the third and once each in the fourth, fifth, and sixth innings. With the sweep Mid-Prairie is now 7-15 on the year.
The Golden Hawks are back in action tonight when they host the Washington Demons. Coach Ben Obermann and the Demons enter play tonight with a record of 14-13, having dropped three in a row including a suffering a doubleheader sweep against Fairfield Monday night. Jessie Buchholz leads the way at the plate for the Demons hitting .412. In the circle, Molly Sparks has thrown 90 innings with a 2.66 ERA. Last year these two teams met in Washington with the Demons winning a 17-13 slugfest. You can hear all of the action live tonight from Carr, Vincent, Gould Field in Kalona on AM 1380, FM 102.5 and KCIIradio.com, beginning with the Washington HyVee pregame show at 6:30 and first pitch at 7PM.