STATE CHAMPS - Cougars dominate state final

FORT DODGE – AGWSR showed off its power and left no doubt to the outcome of the Class 1A state championship game early on Friday, July 24.
The Cougars put their hitting shoes on against Logan-Magnolia and emerged state champions at last after three straight trips to the state tournament with a dominating 12-0 win in three innings.
Ashley Sicard hit a two-run home run, her battery mate Jami Johnson added another that started an eight-run third, and the rout was on against the Panthers.
“We’ve been working so hard for this goal that we set at the beginning of the year and there was no doubt in our minds that we were going to get first; we were not going to settle for second,” AGWSR senior third baseman Maddie Deters said. “We were gunning for first, there was no doubt about it ...
“We came out and played our best game of the season and it paid off,” she said.
 
For more of this story see the July 30 Grundy Register.