CARROLLTON — The bigger they are, the more fun when they fall. The Division 7 Symmes Valley Lady Vikings picked up a pair of wins on Saturday by beating the Division 4 Carrollton Lady Warriors 5-2 and the Division 3 New Philadelphia Lady Quakers 13-2. Against Carrollton, the game was scoreless until the third inning when both teams got a run. The Lady Vikings scored when Brenna Tibbs tripled and came home on a wild pitch. Carrollton got its run when Paityn Crank reached on a

COAL GROVE — Better late than never. The Fairland Dragons rallied in the sixth inning and edged the Coal Grove Hornets 5-4 in an Ohio Valley Conference game on Friday. Fairland (3-5, 2-1) took a 1-0 lead to start the game but Coal Grove tied the game in the bottom of the first inning. Coal Grove (2-5, 0-3) took a 2-1 lead in the third and then went up 4-1 in the fourth inning. But Fairland put together a four-run rally in the sixth and then held on to win. Nolan Fleming got t

PEDRO — The South Pointers scored four runs in the ninth inning to beat the Rock Hill Redwomen 7-3 in an Ohio Valley Conference game on Friday. Kota Copley got the complete game win as she racked up 16 strikeouts while walking two, giving up 10 hits and two earned runs. South Point (7-4, 1-1) scored four times in the ninth highlighted by Kyleigh Castle’s RBI single and Raygen Yates’ sacrifice fly. Kaitlyn Evans squeeze bunt scored a run and South Point a 1-0 lead in the secon

CHESAPEAKE — The Ironton Fighting Tigers took off their cleats and put on the hitting shoes. In their biggest offensive output of the young season, Ironton had 12 hits en route to a 12-4 win over the Chesapeake Panthers on Friday in an Ohio Valley Conference game. Wearing the glass slipper for Ironton was Braydon Baker who went 4-for-5 with an inside-the-park home run and six runs batted in. “Baker woke up. He had his coffee this morning,” said Ironton coach John Hunt with a