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The Mid-Prairie Golden Hawk baseball team put together a tremendous campaign in 2023. Mid-Prairie ranked in the top 10 in the state in 2A in 10 different team offensive categories including sacrifice bunts, third with 29, total hits fifth with 283, batting average, sixth at .313, sixth most RBI 201, home runs, seventh with five, seventh fewest strikeouts just 145, ninth most runs 239, ninth highest OBP .435, ninth highest slug .397 and 10th most walks 147. The pitching staff was in the top ten of 2A in five different categories, third best ERA 2.59, fifth lowest WHIP 1.27, seventh fewest earned runs 83, seventh fewest walks 101 and 10th most Ks 232. Defensively the team ended with a 95% fielding percentage, third in 2A.
The list of individual top tens in 2A is 11 long.
Collin Miller went 7-0 on the mound, third most wins in 2A. In 58 innings, eighth most in 2A, he had 74Ks, 10th in 2A for those with 50 innings.
Alex Bean had 39 total hits, 10th most in 2A. On the mound, he finished 6-2, fourth most wins in 2A.
Cain Brown scored 37 runs, 10th most in 2A.
Karson Grout slugged .762, eighth in 2A. Grout finished with 48 hits, second in 2A, 20 for extra bases, most in 2A, including four homers, third in Iowa, and drove in 37, fifth in the state.
The Hawks finished the season 27-7, their most wins since 2009. The Golden Hawks were champions of the River Valley Conference, their second in four years, and District Champions for the fourth straight season.