By Mark Schafer | The News-Review
 SIGOURNEY – Everyone knew that they were going to be good.
Just how good they were going to be was the question that waited to be answered. Some of the questions were answered throughout the month of June as the Sigourney baseball team would finish the month of June with just one defeat.
In the first month of the season Sigourney was only challenged a handful of times. They would only fall once when they came up short in a 5-3 game against North Linn. Still, that didn’t seem to bother the Savages as they worked well through the month of June.
One game that nearly everyone still remembers, even half a year later, came on June 16 against the 2024 State champion, Lynnville-Sully.
The game was against two teams that were ranked in the top-5 of the class 1A rankings, and would go a long way in deciding who was going to be named the 2025 South Iowa Cedar League champion.
Sigourney seemed to take control of the game early on.
The Savages would take an early lead, but Lynnville-Sully would answer and tie the game at seven during the seventh inning.
Hunter Sellers was the leadoff batter for the Savages in the seventh inning and he would reach base off a single. He eventually took second after a wild pitch, and made it safely to third base off a sacrifice fly ball from Ike Molyneux.
Sellers was just 90 feet away from giving the Savages, at the time, their 13th-straight win. And a bit of revenge along the way too.
“When we have a runner on third with two outs, we tell all of the kids to read dirt,” said Lee Crawford, the head coach for the Sigourney baseball team. “If they see the ball hit the dirt off a pitch in any situation they are going to take a bigger lead, and read the situation.”
It didn’t take long for Sellers to read the dirt. On the third pitch of Cole McKay’s at-bat the ball fell into the dirt and rolled to the left of the Lynnville-Sully catcher.
Sellers took off. So did the Lynnville-Sully pitcher. They both arrived at home plate at roughly the same time.
When the Hawks catcher located the ball all he could do was pick it up and admire it. It was too late. Sellers had already slid safely across the plate for the game-winning run, and giving the Savages their 13th win. They were the last undefeated team in class 1A.
Overall the Savages would finish the month of June with a 21-1 record. They were ranked No. 2 in the class 1A rankings.
