PORTSMOUTH — Copley and Copley might sound like a law firm, but it was the partnership that helped give the South Point Lady Pointers a win. Sisters Kota and Adyson Copley combined to go 7-for-7 with 4 doubles, a home run and 5 runs batted as the Lady Pointers beat the Portsmouth Lady Trojans 11-6 on Monday in an Ohio Valley Conference game. Kota Copley — who also got the pitching win — was 4-4 with 2 doubles and 3 RBI while Adyson Copley went 3-3 with 2 doubles and a home ru

AID — The only thing missing from this pitchers’ duel was having Brenna Tibbs and Leah Rader start the game back-to-back and taking 45 paces to the pitching rubber. The Symmes Valley Lady Vikings relied on the one-hit pitching of Tibbs while the Eastern Lady Eagles rode Rader’s 3-hit pitching in a pivotal Southern Ohio Conference 2 game on Monday with the Lady Vikings getting a 1-0 win. Tibbs was dominant with 16 strikeouts and only one walk as she fashioned her one-hitter. R

IRONTON — To err is human and to forgive is divine. But to error in baseball is to give away runs. Two costly errors enabled the Gallia Academy Blue Devils to beat the Ironton Fighting Tigers 4-2 in an Ohio Valley Conference game on Monday. Ironton had five errors but two of their miscues led to three runs and proved to be the difference in the outcome. “The only thing we didn’t do was fluff the bow on the gifts we handed them,” said Ironton coach John Hunt. “Our mental mista