Atlantic Softball 2018 Hawkeye Ten Champions (Photo Atlantic Softball)

The Atlantic softball team came out of a whirlwind week on top of the Hawkeye Ten Conference. The Trojans are Conference Champions for the first time since 1999.

The Trojans began the week with an 8-2 win over Harlan in a game that was moved to an 11:00am start to avoid incoming rain. They followed that with a 4-2 win over Lewis Central on Tuesday night. They then took two from Creston on Thursday night 4-0 and 10-0. That was followed by a busy Friday, traveling to Carroll to beat Kuemper 7-0 in the morning. They then hustled back home to take two games from St. Albert 12-0 and 11-1 to secure the Conference Title.

The Trojans finished the regular season with a 19-1 conference record. The next two teams in the standings were Denison-Schleswig at 17-3 and Lewis Central at 15-3.

Atlantic showed no signs of slowing down by picking up a 16-2 win over CB Thomas Jefferson on Saturday at the Tiger-Knight Tournament in Carroll before the rest of the tourney was rained out. The Trojans finish the regular season with a 27-5 record.

Their opening round playoff game will be on Tuesday night at home against Shenandoah. We’ll have coverage of that game on KJAN with a pregame at 6:45pm and first pitch set for 7:00pm.