At KCII we’re counting down the top 10 biggest stories in area high school sports for the 2024-2025 academic year. At number eight is Sigourney Savage softball winning a fifth straight conference championship.
Coming off winning the Class 1A state championship for the first time in program history, Sigourney remained one of the elite teams in the area on the diamond.
The Savages started the season 5-0, and all five wins came inside the South Iowa Cedar League, but an extremely young roster had to find a way to win close games. After a 5-3 victory over English Valleys in the opener, Sigourney edged out BGM 2-0 and won a 2-1 pitcher’s duel with Iowa Valley.
The Savages would be 10-0 in conference play before losing a 3-2 thriller to BGM, and they would bounce back to win their final six games in the league to finish a game ahead of second-place North Mahaska.
Sigourney would add to what ended up being an 18-win season in total by edging out rival Keota in the playoffs in a 1-0 pitcher’s duel in extra innings. But the season would come to an end with a 2-1 loss in the regional quarterfinals to Wayne, who would eventually reach the Class 1A state championship game.
The Savages’ success came largely thanks to Josephine Moore, who earned a third straight all-state selection by leading the team with a .536 batting average, 37 total hits, 10 doubles, nine home runs, 39 runs batted in and 28 runs scored.
Moore was also Sigourney’s every-day starting pitcher for the first time and thrived in the role, allowing an impressive 1.23 earned-run average and racking up a whopping 189 strikeouts in 142 innings of work.
Fellow senior Dani Aller also received all-state honors for the Savages after batting .357 with three triples and scoring 22 runs. All-conference selections went to Moore, Aller, freshmen Devyn Smallwood and Ella Bruns and eighth-graders Kinsely Clubb and Kiley Cavin.
Keep listening to KCII and check online at KCIIradio.com as the countdown continues tomorrow of the Top 10 Area High School Sports Stories of 2024-2025.