HAVE BEEN HANDED OUT. WE’VE GOT SOME STATE FINAL SCORES ON THE BOTTOM OF YOUR SCREEN. HIGHLIGHTS FROM AROUND THE AREA STARTING RIGHT NOW. WE’RE GOING TO START IN ANKENY, AMES, TRYING TO END AN EPIC STATE TOURNAMENT DROUGHT TAKING ON CENTENNIAL ON THE ROAD, CENTENNIAL UP ONE. NOTHING HEADED INTO THE SIXTH INNING. AMES RUNNING OUT OF TIME. AMES IN BLACK. THERE WE GET A BRAYTON BONAIR SINGLE SCORING A RUN TO TIE IT AT ONE AND THEY JUST KEPT GOING AMES JOSH MODEL THE NEXT BATTER. HE GROUNDS ONE INTO RIGHT FIELD AND THAT PUTS AMES UP 2 TO 1 AMES TO SCORE ONE MORE IN THE SIXTH. THROUGHOUT THREE ONE WE GO TO THE SEVENTH AND THEY’RE STILL RIDING HIGH. AUSTIN GABRIELSSON HAMMERS THE COFFIN SHUT WITH A BIG FLY TO THE CORNER ALL THE WAY TO THE WALL. TWO MORE SCORE AND THAT WOULD DO. IT. A51 THRILLING WIN BY AMES. THEY ARE HEADED TO STATE FOR THE FIRST TIME IN 28 YEARS BEFORE LAST FRIDAY, THEY WON THEIR FIRST PLAYOFF GAME SINCE 2014. WOW. NOW, I WOULD NEVER THINK THIS BEFORE. NO. ESPECIALLY HOW LAST YEAR ENDED FOR US LOSING AT HOME FIRST ROUND TO SUBSTATE AND THEN COMING TO THEIR HOUSE AND JUST WIN. IT’S JUST FEELS REALLY GOOD. FEELS REALLY GOOD. OH, IT MEANS EVERYTHING. YOU KNOW WE’VE BEEN FRICKING WORKING REALLY HARD FOR THIS MOMENT RIGHT HERE, SO WE PROVED EVERYONE WRONG, YOU KNOW? I KNOW THEY. THEY KNEW THEY WERE GOING TO, LIKE, BEAT DOWN ON US, BUT NO, WE WEREN’T GOING TO LET THAT HAPPEN. WELL DONE. AMES JOHNSTON HAS MADE THE STATE TOURNAMENT EVERY YEAR SINCE 2016, AND THE DEFENDING STATE CHAMPS NEEDED TO BEAT VALLEY TONIGHT AT HOME IN FRONT OF A GREAT CROWD TO KEEP THAT STREAK GOING IN. MAN TWO JOHNSTON DOLLIVER ALREADY UP BIG SAM KAYMER DRIVES IN WILL NUSS TO PUT JOHNSON UP 12 TO 4. THE DEFENDING STATE CHAMPS HAD THIS GAME IN CONTROL AND HERE’S THE MOMENT THEY’VE WORKED FOR. JOHNSTON ENDS IT WITH A STRIKEOUT OUT THIS IS THE VIEW I HAD JOHNSTON THE DOGPILE THEY WIN IT 12 TO 4 IN EPIC FASHION. FULL VIDEO ON MY SOCIAL MEDIA. NORTH POLK HOST GILBERT FIRST INNING ALEC BELL FOR GILBERT GOING TO RATTLE ONE UP THE MIDDLE ELI ELDER GETS OUT OF A PICKLE TO PUT GILBERT ON THE BOARD FIRST. THERE HE GOES. I TOLD YOU IT WOULD HAPPEN. NICE SAVE. BRAYTON FOSTER IN THE FIRST SAYS A BLAST WENT OVER THE FENCE. TWO ONE NORTH POLK. THEY SCORE FIVE MORE IN THE INNING. NORTH POLK’S ON TO STATE WITH A71 WIN COMETS GO ON AHEAD. ALL RIGHT HARLAN AT LOUIS CENTRAL CYCLONES BREAK A11 TIE IN THE FIFTH HAYDEN PSOMAS CHOPPER TO SECOND IT’S GOING TO BE TOO HOT TO HANDLE HARLAN SCORE SEVEN UNANSWERED TO TAKE AN EIGHT ONE LEAD. HARLAN IS GOING TO WIN THIS ONE 9 TO 6 TO MAKE THE DANCE IN DRAMATIC FASHION AS TH