DES MOINES — Maybe it should have kept raining. Ah, that would have just delayed the inevitable.Decorah’s run the second half of the prep baseball season was ended by a team that was out and out better, certainly last night. Few doubts about Dallas Center-Grimes ...

DECORAH - Way back when, these Decorah Vikings weren't very good."We were pretty mediocre the first half of the season," Coach Dennis Olejniczak admitted.Just look at them now, on the verge of the school's first state baseball championship in 21 years after wiping off Sioux ...

ALL STATE TOURNAMENT BASEBALL GAMES TELEVISED ON KCRG 9.2CLASS 3A SEMIFINALSWestern Dubuque (35-9) vs. Dallas Center-Grimes (34-2) When: Noon Where: Principal Park, Des Moines Scouting Report: WD was oh, so impressive in a 12-1, five-inning win over Harlan in Tuesday's quarterfinals. The Bobcats pounded out 14 hits, scoring ...

DES MOINES - Dennis Olejniczak has won 1,293 games in over a half-century as a prep baseball coach. If there was one you had to choose to best represent his phenomenal legacy, this would have been it.OK, probably some hyperbole there. But this one was ...

The contract has been signed, sealed and delivered. It's official.Dennis Olejniczak will coach baseball a 50th year at Decorah High School next summer."There is no difference now than there's ever been for me," Olejniczak said. "It's as exciting and challenging to me as it ever ...

DES MOINES -- Kyle Kregel waited all day for roughly 50 seconds of glory."It was nice, but it was nerve racking," Kregel said after anchoring Decorah's 1,600-meter relay team to victory -- a victory that put a stamp on Decorah's Class 3A boys' championship Saturday at ...

DES MOINES -- Parker Beard was suffering."It kind of showed," he said. "I didn't think I was going to make it."Beard got the baton to Kyle Kregel, barely. And Kregel did the rest, anchoring Decorah to victory in the Class 3A boys' 3,200-meter relay at ...

DECORAH - No offense to all the wonderfully talented boys and girls who are participating in the 65th Iowa All-State Festival Concert tonight, but James Ostlie isn't going to miss you.The Decorah junior successfully auditioned recently as a bass singer in the choir portion of the ...

CEDAR FALLS - We're here at the UNI-Dome for the Class 3A portion of the state playoff semifinals. Game one features two of the biggest traditional powers in Iowa in Decorah (10-2) and Harlan (9-3).Harlan uncharacteristically lost three times in the regular season: to Denison-Schleswig ...

Quarterfinal football capsules for area teams:BETTENDORF at IOWA CITY WEST (4A)Time & site -- 7 p.m. Friday, at Trojan FieldRecords & rankings -- No. 4 Bettendorf is 10-1; West is 9-2.Notable -- After beating up on a pair of league foes in the first two ...