Centerville -- For the fourth year in a row, Indian Hills Community College and Muscatine Community College will be matched up in the first round of the Region XI postseason baseball tournament. Indian Hills, the number-two seed, will host the five-team tournament at Pat Daugherty Field in Centerville this weekend.
The Indian Hills-Muscatine first-round game will be at 5:00 Friday afternoon after Marshalltown CC and Southwestern CC open the tourney at 2:00 p.m. The winner of the IHCC-MCC game will play at 2 p.m. Saturday. The loser will play an elimination game at 11:00 a.m. Saturday.
(Note that the start times for Friday's games have been moved back three hours because of a wet field. Those times are different from the original ones released earlier this week.)
Iowa Western is the top seed in the double-elimination tournament after going 15-1 in conference play. Their first game will be at 8:00 Friday night against the winner of the Marshalltown-Southwestern contest.
Indian Hills, with a season record of 36-20 and a conference mark of 9-7, won four of the five regular-season meetings with Muscatine. The Falcons won 28-18 in late March in a game that didn’t count in the league standings. In a four-game series in Centerville in April, Indian Hills won by scores of 1-0, 13-7 and 3-2. Muscatine’s lone win against IHCC was 9-2.
Indian Hills has opened the region tournament with a win against Muscatine each of the last two years. The Falcons are searching for their first postseason title since 2004.
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