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abbreviated complete-game win in the Comets’ first game against Iowa Falls-Al-den on Saturday.

At North Fayette Valley, the Comets — who have a penchant this season of addling opponents with small-ball tactics — played a little long ball against the Dons and the Hawks.

Against Don Bosco, Comet freshman Ra-chel Chambers had a pair of home runs and drove in 7 runs.

Against Kee, Chambers hit another home runs as did teammates Allie Cross and Sa-die Gebel.

Thus far this season, Chambers leads the Comets with four homers and 20 RBIs. Cross and Gebel each have two homers.

Arguably, the toughest challenge the Comets faced during the weekend came from southern neighbors North Butler. The Bearcats came into Sportsmen’s Park with only one loss and were coming off an 11-1 win over Top of Iowa-East rival Rockford, which is amidst a winning season.

North Butler eighth-grader Kiya Johnson was pitching well early on against counter-part Heyer, but it was Heyer’s bat that ulti-mately broke the game open after a score-less tie through two innings as she drove in 3 runs with a pair of two-out triples.

In the subsequent win against Waukon for the Charles City tourney championship, junior leadoff hitter Liz Fiser had three hits and scored twice.

After Heyer struck out 10 and yielded no hits and walks in four innings during the championship game, Reetz pitched two shutout innings in relief.

Before the weekend, the Comets swept Waukon in a Northeast Iowa Conference

doubleheader.Next up for the Comets is an away game

Tuesday in Forest City.

CHARLES CITY 14, IOWA FALLS-ALDEN 2IFA AB R H BI CC AB R H BIElliot Wood 2 0 0 0 Lisabeth Fiser 3 2 2 2 Makenna Meyer 2 0 1 0 Lydia Staudt 2 2 2 1 Grace Renaud 2 0 1 1 Brooke Vance 1 2 1 0 Rilee McKibben 2 0 0 0 Rachel Chambers 3 0 1 2 Lorren Steinfeldt 2 0 0 0 Allie Cross 1 2 1 1 Rana Janes 1 0 0 0 Sami Heyer 1 1 1 2 Caleigh Osterman 1 0 0 0 Ava Ellis 1 1 1 0 Mikayla Fjeld 1 0 1 0 Alex Litterer 2 2 2 3 H.Bridgewater 1 1 1 0 Emma Grimm 2 0 1 1 *A. Gillespie 0 1 0 0 Delaney Ruzicka 1 1 0 0 Sadie Gebel 2 1 2 2 TOTALS 14 2 4 1 TOTALS 19 14 14 14IOWA FALLS-ALDEN 002 -- 2 CHARLES CITY 68x -- 14 LOB--IOWA FALLS-ALDEN 3, CHARLES CITY 1.2B--Rachel Chambers, Allie Cross, Sami Heyer, Sadie Gebel. HBP--Allie Cross. SB--Makenna Meyer, Lisabeth Fiser, Lydia Staudt, Brooke Vance.IOWA FALLS-ALDEN IP H R ER BB SO HRMakala Peterson 2.00 14 14 14 1 0 0CHARLES CITY Dani Reetz 3.00 4 2 2 0 1 0PB--Caleigh Osterman. WP--Makala Peterson. SO--Ra-na Janes. BB--Delaney Ruzicka.

CHARLES CITY 21, DON BOSCO 0CC AB R H BI DB AB R H BILisabeth Fiser 4 3 3 1 Kennedi Purdy 1 0 0 0 Lydia Staudt 4 4 4 2 Ashley Grapp 1 0 0 0 Rachel Chambers 4 3 3 7 Jenna Brown 1 0 0 0 Allie Cross 4 2 2 1 Brooklynn Schares 1 0 0 0 Sami Heyer 2 2 1 0 Tatum Bedard 1 0 0 0 Alex Litterer 1 1 1 0 Hailey Ortner 1 0 0 0 Dani Reetz 2 1 1 2 Maysen Bruess 1 0 0 0 Emma Grimm 3 2 1 3 Kaylee Peters 1 0 0 0 Ava Ellis 2 1 0 1 Hope Moore 1 0 0 0 Sadie Gebel 3 1 1 0 *Brooke Vance 0 1 0 0 TOTALS 29 21 17 17 TOTALS 9 0 0 0CHARLES CITY 1092 0 -- 21 DON BOSCO 000 x -- 0

LOB--CHARLES CITY 2, DON BOSCO 0.ERR--Maysen Bruess (2), Jenna Brown, Ashley Grapp, Kaylee Peters, Hope Moore (2). 2B--Lisabeth Fiser, Emma Grimm, Dani Reetz. HR--Rachel Chambers (2). SB--Rachel Chambers, Lisabeth Fiser (2), Lydia Staudt (2).CHARLES CITY IP H R ER BB SO HRSami Heyer 3.00 0 0 0 0 8 0DON BOSCO Kylie McMahon 0.67 6 10 4 2 1 2Hope Moore 2.33 11 11 10 1 1 0PB--Jenna Brown. WP--Hope Moore. SO--Ava Ellis, Sadie Gebel, Maysen Bruess, Kennedi Purdy, Hailey Ortner, Jenna Brown, Ashley Grapp, Kaylee Peters, Brooklynn Schares, Hope

CHARLES CITY 12, KEE 0CC AB R H BI KEE AB R H BILisabeth Fiser 3 2 1 1 Katie Brennan 2 0 0 0 Lydia Staudt 3 1 2 3 Reagan Mudderman 2 0 0 0 Rachel Chambers 2 2 2 1 Makayla Walleser 2 0 0 0 Allie Cross 2 1 1 3 Ashlyn Seitz 1 0 0 0 Sami Heyer 3 0 2 0 Macy Manning 2 0 0 0 Alex Litterer 3 1 1 0 Kristina Dibert 2 0 0 0 Emma Grimm 1 0 1 2 Elena Rolfs 1 0 1 0 Delaney Ruzicka 2 0 0 0 Heather Mooney 1 0 0 0 Sadie Gebel 3 2 2 2 Makayla Peters 1 0 0 0 *Dani Reetz 0 2 0 0 *Brooke Vance 0 1 0 0 TOTALS 22 12 12 12 TOTALS 14 0 1 0CHARLES CITY 101 100 -- 12 KEE 000 0x -- 0 LOB--CHARLES CITY VARSITY 4, KEE VARSITY 3. ERR--Allie Cross. 2B--Lisabeth Fiser, Emma Grimm. HR--Rachel Chambers,Allie Cross, Sadie Gebel. SB--Lisa-beth Fiser, Lydia Staudt.CHARLES CITY IP H R ER BB SO HRSami Heyer 4.00 1 0 0 1 7 0KEE Makayla Walleser 3.33 11 11 11 6 1 2Elena Rolfs 0.67 1 1 1 0 1 1PB--Kristina Dibert. WP--Makayla Walleser (2). SO--Del-aney Ruzicka (2), Kristina Dibert, Macy Manning, Makay-la Walleser, Heather Mooney, Makayla Peters, Reagan Mudderman (2). BB--Rachel Chambers, Lisabeth Fiser, Allie Cross, EmmaGrimm (2), Delaney Ruzicka, Ashlyn Seitz.

SOFTBALLContinued from page 8

Press photo by John Burbridge

Charles City sophomore Allie Cross drives a pitch deep but foul during Saturday’s tournament championship game against Wau-kon which the Comets won, 5-0.

STANLEY CUP FINALS

Poetry on ice: Bruins’ potent power play is key to Cup Final

ST. LOUIS (AP) — Patrice Bergeron wins the faceoff and Jake DeBrusk retrieves the puck for Torey Krug, who waits just long enough for Bergeron to set up and shoots it at his stick for a textbook de-flection goal.

This is the Boston Bruins’ masterful power play at its nearly unstoppable best.

When the Bruins go on the power play, it’s poetry in motion on the ice that comes from a combination of detailed coaching and planning, high-end talent and exquisite exe-cution.

Boston scored with precise efficiency on all four of its power-play chances in a 7-2 rout of the St. Louis Blues in Game 3 and is the biggest rea-son the Bruins lead the Stan-ley Cup Final 2-1 going into Game 4 Monday night.

“It’s just the creativity and guys stepping into certain roles, certain spots, and we fill in for each other,” Krug said. “When we’re on and we’re in sync, we’re a really dangerous unit.”

Toronto, Columbus and Carolina already figured that out in the first three rounds, and St. Louis needs to devel-op a solution or this series will be over quicker than Krug can move the puck.

Boston’s playoff-best power play has converted on 35.9% of its opportunities and could be the first unit to finish over 30% in the postseason since the 1981 champion New York Islanders.

“We just have a lot of dif-ferent abilities and talents out there,” puck retrieving ace Brad Marchand said. “This has nothing to do with luck.

Bruce Cassidy is a pow-er-play mastermind who can spot trends and flaws as well

as any coach in the NHL. After the Bruins scored on two of their 10 power plays in Games 1 and 2, he noticed a hole in the Blues’ penalty kill, made some adjustments and, boom, Boston scored four power-play goals ... on four shots.

“Bruce does a great job of giving us cues that if this play-er does this, this is the option that we’re going to have and the opportunity that we’re go-ing to have to score a goal,” said Krug, who joined Hall of Famer Denis Potvin as the only defensemen to record at least four points in a Cup Final game.

Cassidy said his power play operates differently from a lot of other hockey teams because it relies more on puck move-ment down low than a blast from the point.

Blues penalty killer Ryan O’Reilly noted the Bruins worked more from Krug at the point in Game 3 and it caught them off guard.

Here’s how they did it:* Bergeron’s tip was a set

play Cassidy drew up off a fa-ceoff win that players executed to a T.

* David Pastrnak’s back-hand came after a Bergeron-to-Krug point-to-point pass and Krug finding him inexplicably wide open in front.

* Krug’s wrist shot devel-oped off a give-and-go with Marchand after he found open ice and snapped it past goal-tender Jordan Binnington.

* Marcus Johansson’s one-timer against a fatigued Blues penalty kill happened when David Backes retrieved the puck, Johansson and Krug passed it back and forth like practice and goalie Jake Allen had no chance of stopping the puck.