It’s another familiar foe in the playoffs Friday for the Sigourney Savage softball team as they host North Mahaska in the regional semifinal round of the class 1A tournament. The Savages are 23-7 on the year after a 1-0 win over English Valleys to open the playoffs in Thursday’s regional quarterfinal round. The Savages were led by a spectacular performance from freshman Carly Goodwin in the circle, throwing a compete game one hit shut out to record the victory. At the plate, Sigourney got hits from Josephine Moore, Dani Aller and Macy Fisch. Fisch had the game winning RBI knock in the fourth. The Savages are currently ranked No. 7 in class 1A in the final poll from the Iowa Girls High School Athletic Union. They were regular season co-champions of the South Iowa Cedar League with a 15-1 conference mark. Sigourney is hitting .335 as a team, 10th best in class 1A and has a staff ERA of 1.66, ninth in the state. They are led individually by three players hitting over .400 on the year in Carly Goodwin, Kaylee Weber and Josephine Moore. Goodwin is tops on the team at .515, ninth in 1A with 52 hits, sixth most in Iowa. Goodwin also leads the Savages in the circle with a 19-3 overall record and 0.55ERA, second in the state.

North Mahaska is 18-10 on the year, they finished 12-4 in the South Iowa Cedar League, taking third place behind co-champs Sigourney and Lynnville-Sully. The Warhawks have dispatched Keota and Montezuma so far on their tournament trail, winning the two games by a combined 14-1 score. The girls from New Sharon are hitting .334 as a team and have a staff ERA of 2.40. They have a pair hitting over .400 with Zoe Duecore and Regan Grewe at .466 and .461 respectively and each with 41 hits. In the circle Madison McKay has a 13-8 record in 132 innings with a 2.59 ERA, Morgan Hudson is 5-1 with a 1.83. Thursday night, Sigourney head coach Shelly Striegel talked about her team’s win against English Valleys and getting for North Mahaska. “I think that Goodwin was really hitting her targets well tonight. She was incredible, she did everything she could for the team. Macy Fisch did a nice job driving in the run and Amiya Smallwood did a nice job running the bases and taking advantage. Experience helps this team but their mental toughness is also key. They depend on each other. Maddie McKay for New Sharon is a good pitcher. She does a good job in the circle. So we need to keep our heads down and hit the ball.”

These two teams met on June 11th with the Savages taking an 8-1 win in New Sharon. Sigourney was keyed in the win by a Kaylee Weber home run and three RBI from Macy Fisch and two each from Raegan Rozenboom and Weber to go along with a complete game 13 strikeout performance in the circle from Carly Goodwin. You can hear all of the action tonight between the No. 7 Savages and the Warhawks from Schafer Field in Sigourney, beginning with the pregame show at 4:30 and first pitch at 5 p.m. on AM 1380, FM 102.5 and KCIIradio.com. The game was moved up to 5 p.m. due to possible inclement weather.