PELLA — With everyone set to return from last year’s state quarterfinal team that finished with a 27-10 record, expectations will high on the Pella Dutch baseball squad this summer, but 13-year head ...

The Dutch have been the fairy-tale success story of the 2013 tournament, beating the odds by advancing to the semi-finals where they will face the Dominican Republic on Monday for a chance to play for ...

PELLA — Playing their second and third game in two days, the second-ranked Pella baseball squad hosted Centerville for a non-conference doubleheader on Thursday for their home opener. It was another ...

If you want to know how a kid with a fantasy-league baseball team realizes a baseball fantasy-come-true, you could do worse than the story of Tjerk Smeets, a backup catcher on the Dutch Olympic team.

Cincinnati Reds scout Evert-Jan 't Hoen returns to the same question when he's searching for baseball talent in the Netherlands: "Does he maybe have what it takes?" Finding a potential Major League ...

FROM SIOUX CITY. OH, IS THE TOWN OF PELLA FEELING SWEETER THAN A DUTCH LETTER RIGHT NOW? AFTER THE SOFTBALL TEAM TAKES HOME A STATE TITLE ON THURSDAY, FRIDAY, IT WAS TIME FOR THE BASEBALL TEAM TO ...