Rain, rain, go away. Knights deal with weather this week

 LOWDEN — A horrible week for weather saw four of the ve North Cedar scheduled baseball games postponed due to wet weather. Wiped out were four River Valley Conference games. Things get interesting in trying to make-up these games. This week is the last regular season week for high school baseball. North Cedar had their doubleheader with RVC North foe Anamosa, and one of their two RVC North games with Cascade was rained out. Also postponed is a single game at West Branch. This week, as of presstime, North Cedar hosts Mid-Prairie Wednesday, and travel to Anamosa Thursday for a doubleheader.
 North Cedar’s one game they got in, came on Tuesday, July 2 at home. It was the rst of two games in a doubleheader against RVC North power Cascade. The Cougars were ranked in Class 2A earlier this year, but are not at this point of the year. There, the Cougars took a 7-0 victory in the game. The loss was the Knights eighth straight loss. North Cedar fell to 2-14 overall and 2-12 in the River Valley Conference.
 Ethan Sahr and Tyler Thur- ston pitched for North Cedar. Sahr started and went four innings while taking the loss. He struck out seven, walked one and gave up only two runs on four hits. He used 92 pitchers in the game. Thurston pitched three innings and gave up ve runs on ve hits. He struck out six and walked three. He used 68 pitches.
 Sophomore Eli Green was the winning pitcher for Cascade. He pitched a complete game, 7-inning gem. He gave up four hits and did not give up a run. He struck out nine North Cedar batters. Cascade scored the game’s rst runs with a single run in the top of the rst to put the score at 1-0. That score stood until the top of the fourth when they added another single run to take a 2-0 lead. Cascade put the game away late, scoring three runs in the top of the sixth and two runs in the top of the seventh to set the score at its nal score of 7-0.
 North Cedar got four hits in the game. Senior rst baseman Devon Willis led North Cedar, going 2-for-3. Jacob Wagner and Taden Lange each collected the other two hits in the game.
 Cascade was led at the plate by two players with multi-hit games. Senior catcher Riley Reed was 3-for-4 with a double, a home run and twoRBI’s. Har- ris Ho man was 2-for-5 in the game with a solo home run and two runs scored. Cascade drew six walks and stole ve bases in the game.