The Sigourney Savages are closing in on a conference championship in baseball after a 5-0 win over BGM last night. Despite getting a run in the second inning to take the early lead, Sigourney only scored twice more in the third inning and two more runs in the fifth. Fortunately, starting pitcher Landon Conrad only needed that much offense.

The sophomore threw five-and-a-third innings of no-hit baseball, allowing only two walks and racking up nine strikeouts. Chase Clarahan got the final out in the sixth to wrap up a combined no-hitter for the Savages.

Offensively, junior Solon Yates had two runs batted in on one hit for Sigourney and sophomore Lincoln Power cracked a double. Power and seniors Chase Clarahan, Cole McKay and Isaac Bruns each finished with one hit and one run scored.

The Savages, ranked second in the state in Class 1A, now have a record of 18-1 and are a perfect 14-0 in the South Iowa Cedar League, with two more wins next week against Iowa Valley and HLV wrapping up a league title. Up first is their next game tonight against Wilton.

The Lone Tree Lions would not have the same luck Wednesday evening, dropping both games of a doubleheader against Calamus-Wheatland at Duane Banks Stadium on the campus of the University of Iowa.

Lone Tree dropped Game One 13-6 despite two hits and two runs scored from junior Emmett Burke out of the middle of the lineup. Brody Magruder hit a double and had two runs batted in, while fellow senior Jack Patterson smacked a triple, joining sophomore teammates Brock Nebergall and Owen Eden with one hit and one run scored each.

The Lions would fall behind in the second game after Calamus-Wheatland scored 12 times in the second inning alone, and they would end the game early after five frames with a 15-2 victory.

Burke, Patterson and senior Maddox Jondle had the only three hits in the game for Lone Tree, who has a four-game win streak come to an end with the pair of losses and is now 7-10 ahead of facing conference rival Hillcrest Academy this evening.