The Mid-Prairie Golden Hawk softball team put their seven-game winning streak on the line Monday when they traveled to No. 6 in Class 3A West Liberty and dropped both ends of a River Valley Conference doubleheader. In game one, heard on AM and FM KCII, the Comets used early and late fireworks to take a 10-1 victory. West Liberty scored four times in their first at bat with the highlight a two-run homer from Finley Hall. The Comets would get an unearned run in the second to stretch the lead to 5-0. The Hawks got on the board in the fourth, stringing three hits together against Comet starter Sailor Hall. Hits came from Gabi Robertson, Brittni Kinsinger and Sophie Miller as Miller’s double drove in Robertson for Mid-Prairie’s only run of the contest. West Liberty sent seven hitters to the plate in the fifth to push across three insurance runs and added two more to that in their final frame. Sydney Knebel went six innings in the circle for the Hawks, giving up 13 hits, nine earned runs and striking out three.

The nightcap was a back and forth affair, but ultimately the Comets took it 7-4. The Hawks scored single runs in the first and third to build a 2-0 advantage. West Liberty tied it with a pair in the fourth, only to see Mid-Prairie answer with two of their own in the top of five to go back up 4-2. West Liberty scored five unanswered down the stretch, including a four-run fifth to score the win. Mid-Prairie is now 11-9 on the year, West Liberty is 13-3. The Golden Hawks host Iowa City Regina in Kalona Tuesday.