Four Hawks nab all-state baseball honors

Lynnville-Sully senior Corder Noun Harder led Class 1A in homers and total bases and his batting average and on-base percentage both ranked inside the top five of the class this past summer.

After already earning first team all-conference and first team all-district, Noun Harder added captain of the 1A all-state baseball team to his accomplishments this postseason.

He was joined on the Iowa High School Baseball Coaches Association’s all-state first team by senior Lucas Sieck, while junior Carson Maston earned second team all-state honors as a pitcher and senior C.J. Nikkel was a third-team selection in the outfield.

Noun Harder was a first team all-state catcher after ranking second in 1A with a batting average of .545 and his .647 on-base percentage ranked fourth in the class.

He led all of 1A with eight homers and 90 total bases, tied for third with five triples, tied for fourth with 48 hits and tied for eighth with 45 runs.

Noun Harder’s 29 steals also tied for 20th and he added eight doubles, 28 RBIs, three hit by pitches and a team-most 24 walks. He only struck out five times in 88 at-bats.

The Hawk senior’s fielding percentage was .992 and he threw out six players trying to steal a base.

Sieck and Maston both made the all-state team as pitchers.

Sieck made a 1A-most 16 starts, ranked fourth with 70 2/3 innings and was fifth with 102 strikeouts.

Sieck was 12-1 with an earned run average of 1.19 and opponents batted only .130 against him. The 12 wins led all of 1A and his fielding percentage was .759.

Maston was 9-0 and the nine wins tied for the second most in the class. He also registered three saves, which tied for fifth in 1A.

Maston made 10 starts and his ERA was .97. Opponents batted .128 against him and he tied for seventh in 1A with 98 strikeouts over 58 innings. His fielding percentage was .939.

Nikkel batted .307 and posted an OBP of .466. He tallied 27 hits, 40 runs, three doubles, 30 RBIs, 23 walks, 33 total bases and five hit by pitches. He stole 20 bases and Nikkel’s fielding percentage was .864.

The state champion Hawks were ranked in the top five all season and finished with a record of 29-3. And none of those losses came against a 1A program.

Burlington Notre Dame had a class-most five all-staters but no one made the first team. Akron-Westfield joined Lynnville-Sully with four all-state players and Remsen-St. Mary’s, North Linn, Lenox, Mason City Newman Catholic and Saint Ansgar all had three.

Sigourney’s Caden Clarahan and Reid Molyneux both were first-team selections, while Moravia’s Wyatt Throckmorton and Ankeny Christian Academy’s Eli Christensen were third-team picks.