Sharon Hoffmann-Witmer was inducted into the Atlantic Trojan Softball Hall of Fame at a Ceremony monday night before the Atlantic-Kuemper Catholic game. Hoffman-Witmer joins Joel Simms and Joey Schope in the Hall as the 2016 inductee into the Trojan Softball Hall of Fame. Trojan (then Trojann) shortstop Sharon Hoffmann used her speed from the left side of the plate to become the all-time leading Trojan single season hitter with a .537 batting average in 1979.  She also added season batting averages of .476 (’81) and .435 (’80) bringing her career varsity batting average to a hefty .495.  In recognition of her success, Sharon was selected to the Hawkeye 8 All-Conference Team three times (’79, ’80 and ’81) and was an All-State Softball (5^th team) selection in 1981.  Sharon also participated in volleyball, basketball and track while at AHS.

Sharon and her husband Gary Witmer, both Atlantic residents, presently reside in Grand Island, Nebraska where Sharon is the Activities/Athletic Secretary at Grand Island Central Catholic School.  The Witmer’s have four children, Aaron, Alex, Austin and Audra and two grandchildren.  Sharon remains active in softball as the coach of the 14U Grand Island Elite softball team.

The Girls State Soccer Tournament Pairings have been set with the completion of Regional Finals on Monday night.  Click here to see the full brackets for Class 1A, 2A, and 3A.  The State Tournament is played June 9th-11th at Cownie Soccer Park in Des Moines.

Class 1A

Tri-Center 2, Underwood 1
St. Albert 3, Unity Christian 1
Columbus Catholic 3, Hudson 1Iowa City Regina 2, Holy Trinity Catholic 0
Gilbert 3, North Polk 1
Nevada 10, Ballard 0

Class 2A

Lewis Central 9, Perry 0
ADM/Van Meter 2, Norwalk 1 (OT)
North Scott 2, Cedar Rapids Xavier 1
Waverly-Shell Rock 5, Independence 0
Pella 4, Burlington Notre Dame 0
Newton 1, Clear Creek-Amana 0

Class 3A

Ankeny Centennial 4, Dowling Catholic 0
Cedar Rapids Kennedy 1, Iowa City High 0
Pleasant Valley 3, Linn-Mar 2
West Des Moines Valley 2, Johnston 1 (PK’s 12-11)Waukee 2, Ames 0

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Softball Scores

Atlantic 9, Kuemper Catholic 4

A-D-M, Adel 4, Winterset 1
AR-WE-VA, Westside 12, Adair-Casey 2
Creston 15, Shenandoah 0
Essex 13, East Mills 9
Logan-Magnolia 10, Audubon 0
Missouri Valley 10, Riverside, Oakland 0
MOC-Floyd Valley 12, Sheldon 6
Murray 8, Mount Ayr 1
Pocahontas Area 10, East Sac County 9
River Valley 11, West Monona 0
Treynor 8, IKM-Manning 6
Western Christian 15, Storm Lake 5
Westwood, Sloan 13, OA-BCIG 3
Woodbury Central 11, Kingsley-Pierson 10
Woodward-Granger 5, Earlham 4

Baseball Scores

Atlantic 5, Kuemper Catholic 0

AHSTW, Avoca 2, Tri-Center, Neola 0
Audubon 11, Logan-Magnolia 1 (5 innings )
Coon Rapids-Bayard 11, Boyer Valley, Dunlap 0
EHK-Exira 3, CAM, Anita 2
Earlham 6, Woodward-Granger 3
Glenwood 9, Clarinda 0
Guthrie Center 6, Panorama, Panora 4
Lewis Central 6, Harlan 4
MOC-Floyd Valley 9, Sheldon 3
Missouri Valley 25, Riverside, Oakland 1
Mormon Trail, Garden Grove 8, East Union, Afton 3
Mount Ayr 14, Murray 5
OA-BCIG 17, Westwood, Sloan 7
Pleasantville 7, Lenox 1
Pocahontas Area 8, East Sac County 6
Sioux City, North 6, Sioux City, West 2
Sioux City, West 3, Sioux City, North 1
St. Albert, Council Bluffs 6, Denison-Schleswig 1
Stanton 11, Nishnabotna 4
West Monona, Onawa 19, River Valley, Correctionville 4
Woodbury Central, Moville 10, Kingsley-Pierson 0

OMAHA, Neb. (AP) — Baseball teams in the NCAA Tournament already have hit more home runs in regional play than in the entire 2015 tournament. There were 159 homers hit in 91 games through Sunday. That compares to 150 hit in 136 tournament games through the College World Series last year.

This year’s total also is the highest since new bat standards went into effect in 2011. This is the second season a flat-seam ball has been used. The new ball was put into play to increase the amount of offense in the college game. In 2014, the last year for the raised-seam ball, a total of 87 home runs were hit in 139 tournament games.

Clemson led the regionals with 12 home runs in four games before being eliminated Sunday.

The Cardinals optioned second baseman Kolten Wong to Memphis (AAA) following Sunday night’s 6-3 win over San Francisco.  The move opens up space on the team’s 25-man active roster for the anticipated activation off the disabled list of infielder Jhonny Peralta.

Wong, 25, appeared in 49 games, starting 35, with St. Louis this season, batting .222 (28-126).

Peralta injured his left thumb on March 5 during a Spring Training game and underwent surgery shortly after to repair ligament damage.  He played nine games during an injury rehabilitation assignment with stops in Single-A Peoria (five games, 3-for-13), Double-A Springfield (one game, 0-for-2) and High-A Palm Beach (three games, 3-for-11).

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ST. LOUIS (AP) — Aledmys Diaz, Matt Adams and Yadier Molina each had an RBI during a four-run sixth inning and the St. Louis Cardinals came from behind for the second straight game to beat the San Francisco Giants 6-3 on Sunday night.

The tiebreaking run came on an RBI fielder’s choice with the bases loaded by Molina, who entered the at-bat in an 0-for-20 skid. Shortstop Brandon Crawford made an error on the play when he dropped the ball on the exchange trying to flip to second to start a double play.

Carlos Martinez (6-5) allowed three runs in six innings and Matt Carpenter had three hits and an RBI for St. Louis. Trevor Rosenthal earned his 10th save in 11 chances. Giants manager Bruce Bochy used three relievers in the sixth trying to preserve the lead for Jake Peavy (2-6), who missed a chance at his 150th career victory.