DELPHOS — Carson Parker allowed no hits and a walk while striking out eight as Lima Central Catholic defeated Delphos Jefferson 10-0 in a five-inning Tuesday baseball encounter.
Parker also had a grand slam home run and Gabe Cira had a solo homer.
Bath 3, St. Marys 0
BATH TOWNSHIP — Winning pitcher Blaine Albright allowed one hit and two walks while striking out 14 in seven innings. Ricky Deppe and Gavin Butler each had a hit and an RBI. Brayden Sullivan doubled for St. Marys.
Van Wert 7, Elida 4
VAN WERT — Thomas Stoller had a double and four RBI for Van Wert. Zac Suever had two hits and two RBI and Brady Kirk finished with a hit and two RBI for Elida.
Kenton 10,
Shawnee 3
SHAWNEE TOWNSHIP — Jarron Willoby and Seth Leffler had two hits and an RBI for Kenton. Chase Sunderland had three hits, including two doubles, and an RBI for Shawnee.
Parkway 2, Crestview 1
ROCKFORD — Starter Devon Crouch and winning pitcher Trent Rollins allowed three hits and two walks while striking out six in seven innings. Crouch also had a hit and an RBI. Crestview starter Bryson Penix allowed no earned runs and two hits while walking two and striking out four in five innings.
Pandora-Giboa 6,
Continental 1
CONTINENTAL — Winning pitcher Jake Maag allowed three hits and six walks while striking out eight in seven innings. Nate Maag had a hit and two RBI. Jayden Pitney had a hit and an RBI for Continental.
Kalida 8, Miller City 1
KALIDA — Winning pitcher Carson Klausing allowed no runs and two hits while striking out four in four innings. Jaden Smith had three hits and three RBI, Colin Hoffman had two hits and a pair of RBI and teammate Jacob Siebeneck homered. Brendan Barlage doubled for Miller City.
McComb 8, Ada 0
MCCOMB — Levi Green had two hits for Ada.
Defiance 12,
Ottawa-Glandorf 4
DEFIANCE — Carter Duling had a hit and an RBI and Brad Maag tripled for O-G.
Columbus Grove 7,
Ottoville 4
OTTOVILLE — Bo Birnesser had two hits, including a home run, and three RBI and Dalton Wurth finished with two hits, including a double, and two RBI for Grove. Keaton Schnipke finished with two hits and an RBI for Ottoville.
Upper Scioto Valley 23,
Temple Christian 2
LIMA — Alex Sanders had three hits, including a triple, and four RBI, Maddox Underwood had two hits, including a double, and an RBI, Mason Thompson had two hits and two RBI and Andrue Kingle had a hit and three RBI for USV. Sanders was the winning pitcher, allowing no earned runs, a hit and three walks while striking out seven in three innings.
New Bremen 7, Anna 3
NEW BREMEN — Johnny Heitkamp had three hits, including a double, and two RBI and Ben Sailer finished with two hits and an RBI for New Bremen.
Softball
St. Marys 4, Bath 2
ST. MARYS — Winning pitcher Adyson VanDerKeere allowed one earned run, six hits and a walk while striking out 10 in seven innings. KayLynn Mabry had two hits, including a double, and an RBI and Cadence Hirschfeld contributed a triple and two RBI also for St. Marys. Chloe Poling had two hits and an RBI and Claire Armentrout finished with a pair of hits for Bath.
Continental 20,
Pandora-Gilboa 0
CONTINENTAL — Winning pitcher Gracie Homier allowed seven hits and a walk while striking out eight in five innings. Reese Knowles had two hits and two RBI. Lexi Wentz had a pair of hits for P-G.
Van Wert 5, Elida 4
ELIDA — Alexis Pangle had two hits, including a double, and an RBI and Ella Hernandez had two hits, including a triple, and an RBI for Van Wert. Kylie Biglow finished with four hits, including a pair of doubles, and an RBI and Eva Irons contributed two hits and an RBI for Elida.
Lima Senior 13,
Spencerville 1
Winning pitcher Anna Engberg had four strikeouts in seven innings. Tillie Nelson had a double, a triple and three RBI, Mallory Gipson had a single and a double and Aniyah Hollon finished with a pair of hits for Lima Senior. Haley Hittle doubled for Spencerville.
Miller City 17,
Kalida 3
KALIDA — Samantha DeMuth had three hits, including a double and a triple, and Josie Otto had two hits and an RBI for Miller City.
Fort Loramie 11,
Marion Local 1
MARIA STEIN — Camryn Swain had Marion Local’s only hit of the game.
Perry 9,
Hardin Northern 4
PERRY TOWNSHIP — Winning pitcher Isabella Anderson allowed one earned run, five hits and two walks while striking out two in seven innings. Kiya Manley had a double and four RBI and Lexenna Lee contributed three hits, including a double, and two RBI also for the Commodores.
Arcadia 4, Bluffton 4
BLUFFTON — Vanessa Cross had a home run and three RBI for Bluffton.
Coldwater 1, Wayne Trace 0
HAVILAND — Winning pitcher Madison Wendel allowed two hits and a walk while striking out 11 in seven innings.
Lincolnview 5,
Parkway 2
MIDDLE POINT — Lainey Spear had two home runs and three RBI and teammates Sylvia Longstreth and Addysen Stevens each had a hit and an RBI. Emmery Temple had a pair of hits for Parkway.
Defiance 13,
Ottawa-Glandorf 0
Sara Sutter had O-G’s hit.
Girls lacrosse
St. Ursula 20,
Lima Senior 3
Am’briell Nichols had two goals and Gabby Avalos had a single tally for Lima Senior.
Boys tennis
Wapakoneta 4,
Celina 1
WAPAKONETA — Singles players Connor Coffey, Aiden Bellman and Parker Moell all won for Wapak. The doubles team of Brady Sapp and Lukas LeJeune won for Celina. The Wapak doubles team of Gabriel Pepi and Gannon Casebolt won by default.
Whitmer 4,
Lima Senior 1
TOLEDO — Lima Senior first singles player Keegan Halliday won his match.
St. Marys 4, Bath 1
Singles players Cody Birt and Brady Triplett and the doubles teams of Jaxton Spees and Aiden Jeffries and Reese Triplett and Logan Compton won for St. Marys. Singles player Daniel Bolon won for Bath.
Antwerp 11,
Delphos Jefferson 0
DELPHOS — Jessa Rostorfer, Avery Rahrigh and Emma Kunz each had a hit for Jefferson.
Racing
Limaland sponsor
LIMA — The University of Northwestern Ohio’s Limaland Motorsports Park has announced that Midwest Shooting Center is the title sponsor for the UMP Modified races.
All the modified races this season will now be known as the Midwest Shooting Center UMP Modifieds at Limaland.
The Season Opening Shootout – Presented by Smith Boughan is scheduled for Friday, May 5, at Limaland.
For more information go to limaland.com.
Colleges
Polar Bear
award winners
ADA — Jacob Reed and senior Regan Landis have been selected as the Ohio Northern athletic department’s Polar Bear of the Month award winners for March.
Reed capped off a spectacular sophomore season with his second straight third-place finish at the NCAA Championships, making him a two-time All-American. The No. 2 seed in the 141-pound bracket, Reed went 4-1 over the course of the two-day, double-elimination tournament to close the year with a 44-1 record.
Women’s golf
OAC recognizes
ONU’s Honigford
ADA — Ohio Northern’s Grace Honigford was named the Ohio Athletic Conference Women’s Golfer of the Week for the week of March 27 to April 3.
The recognition comes after Honigford shot a season-best 1-over-par 73 to win medalist honors by three strokes at the Bluffton Spring Invitational on Sunday.
Women’s basketball
Ohio Northern
finishes No. 16
ADA — The Ohio Northern women’s basketball team is ranked No. 16 in the final D3hoops.com Women’s Basketball Top 25 Poll for the 2022-23 season.
The Polar Bears received 246 points in the poll and maintained their No. 16 ranking from the previous poll, which was released on Feb. 28.
National champion Transylvania (Ky.) is the top-ranked team in the poll.
The Polar Bears were ranked No. 12 in the final Women’s Basketball Coaches Association NCAA Division III Top 25 Coaches Poll.
Baseball
Ohio Northern 6,
Bluffton 4
ADA — Corey McMann smacked his 15th career home run to lead Ohio Northern against Bluffton at Wander Field.
The Polar Bears improve to 13-9 on the season, while the Beavers fall to 11-8.
Northern took a quick 2-0 lead in the home half of the first on RBI hits by senior Jacob Wenning (Coldwater) and senior Nate Webb.
Sam Harrison scored on a squeeze bunt by sophomore Elliott Veenstra in the bottom of the second to up the lead to 3-0.
Logan Stevens singled home Andrew Stechschulte in the bottom of the fourth to make it 4-1 ONU.
Webb’s 2-run bomb in the home half of the sixth increased the lead to 6-1.
But Bluffton’s Ayden Spriggs would hit a 2-run home run in the top of the seventh and a solo shot in the top of the ninth to get BU within 6-4.
But Vaughn Duncan would close the door on the Beavers and pick up his league-leading seventh save of the season.
Sophomore Blake Altaffer went 7.0 innings, allowing five hits and only two earned runs to pick up the win and improve to 3-0 on the season.
Softball
ONU splits DH
ADA — Kaylie Griffin and sophomore Ashley Lenser helped lead the Ohio Northern to a doubleheader split with Baldwin Wallace at the ONU Softball Field.
The Polar Bears (10-10 overall, 1-3 OAC) got a 3-1 victory in Game 1 before falling 8-2 to the Yellow Jackets (11-9 overall, 3-1 OAC) in Game 2.
Griffin had two of Northern’s six hits in the opener, tallying a double and home run to go with two RBIs.
Lenser pitched all seven innings, giving up just one unearned run on four hits and three walks to go with one strikeout.
The Polar Bears got on the scoreboard early, as Griffin hit a two-out RBI double that plated Lauren Walls in the bottom of the first inning.
A two-out triple from Annika Murray brought senior Sydney Motylinski home for a 2-0 lead in the second inning.
BWU’s Bridie Bricker drew a bases-loaded walk to get the Yellow Jackets on the scoreboard in the top of the fourth frame, but Griffin answered with a solo homer to center field to stretch the ONU lead to 3-1 in the fifth.
Lenser retired the BWU batters quickly over the final two innings, getting a 1-2-3 sixth and facing just four batters in the seventh after the leadoff hitter reached base on an error.
Lenser is now 6-4 on the season.
Yellow Jacket pitchers Hannah Welling and Marisa Hall quieted the ONU offense in Game 2, combining to allow just one hit.
The BWU offense, meanwhile, tallied nine hits and scored eight runs courtesy of outbursts in the third and fifth frames.
The Yellow Jackets opened the scoring with a four-run third inning, getting a 2-RBI double from Lexy Coggins and RBI doubles from Bricker and Sara Frederickson.
BWU added four more runs in the fifth, increasing its lead to 8-0.
Northern got on the scoreboard via an RBI single from Walls that plated Callie Rosser in the bottom of the fifth.
The Polar Bears capped the scoring on a sacrifice fly from Murray that brought freshman Allie Wilson (Wapakoneta) home in the sixth.
Bluffton-Oberlin split
BLUFFTON — Bluffton University split a pair of non-conference games with Oberlin. Bluffton moved to 11-11 on the season following its first home doubleheader in nearly three weeks.
The visitors scored three in the third, one in the fourth and two more in the seventh on the way to a 6-0 lead. Riley Hammonds broke up the shutout with an RBI single that plated senior Sammi Urban, but that was all the offense Bluffton could must up in the lidlifter.
Erin Norman slipped to 6-5 after allowing six runs on eight hits in seven innings of work. The Bluffton defense let Norman down as four of the six runs were of the unearned variety. Five Bluffton hitters finished with one hit apiece in game one.
Game two was a pitching duel from start to finish with all three runs scored in the fifth inning. Oberlin went up 1-0 when the Yeowomen used a Chutko triple to score the game’s first run.
Pinch hitter Kaylei Barnett (Wapakoneta) opened the bottom of the frame with a single to shortstop. Kaylee Grant (Shawnee) followed with a base knock to right and one out later, Bobbi Adams delivered a two-run double to the wall in center field and Grace Fillinger did the rest. She retired the final six batters to help Bluffton notch a split on Tuesday.
Fillinger was both dominant and efficient in the circle and she helped herself with five assists and a putout. The standout senior scattered six hits and needed just 56 pitches (46 strikes) to secure her fifth victory of the season!
Grant went 2-for-2 with a walk and Adams drove in both Bluffton runs.
Track & field results
Kalida, Ottoville, Lincolnview at Crestview
Minster, Coldwater, New Knoxville at Delphos St. John’s
Parkway, Fort Recovery at New Bremen
Bryan, Napoleon at Ottawa-Glandorf
Anna, Marion Local, Fort Loramie, Botkins, St. Henry at Versailles
Perry, Ridgedale at Waynesfield-Goshen
St. Marys, Paulding, Defiance at Van Wert
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