ATHENS — No one likes to see snow in June. Especially Dave Shoupe and his Green Bobcats. Costly mistakes in the field snowballed one after another for the Bobcats as they couldn't hold onto their lead and ultimately fell to the Strasburg-Franklin Tigers 12-8 in the Ohio Division 7 regional semifinals at Ohio University on Wednesday evening. "We just didn't get it done defensively. We built up a nice lead there in the second and just couldn't hold onto it," said Bobcats coach

LOGAN — There’s an old cliche that says you can’t keep a good man down. In the case of the Green Bobcats, you can’t keep a good team down. The Green Bobcats rallied late and scored the winning run in the seventh inning to edge the Trimble Tomcats 4-3 on Friday and capture their second straight Division 7 district championship. Green trailed 3-2 after five innings, but scored single runs in each of the last two innings to get the win. “Any time you make a tournament run you ha

ATHENS — Vince Vaughn’s character in the movie “The Wedding Crashers” said the famous line, “Rule #76. No excuses.” Ironton head baseball coach John Hunt didn’t quote the rule or line, but he wasn’t offering any excuses after the Fighting Tigers suffered a 9-2 loss to the Minford Falcons in the Division 5 district title game on Friday at Ohio University. “Usually it’s about who makes the least amount of mistakes. (Minford) just came out and won the game. They played really we

ATHENS — Hughes came up huge. Jacob Hughes pitched a one-hitter as the Ironton Fighting Tigers blanked the Zane Trace Pioneers 2-0 in the Division 5 district semifinals. “We played well but Jacob just dominated the game,” said Ironton coach John Hunt. “We didn’t have an error and got some clutch hits, but Jacob was just so dominant.” Ironton (17-6) will play Minford in the district finals at 2 p.m. on Friday at Ohio University. Minford (24-3) edged Wellston 7-6 in the other s

LOGAN — Christmas came early and the St. Joseph Flyers were the ones playing Santa Claus. The Flyers gave up 7 walks, a hit batsman, and committed 6 errors that produced 8 unearned runs in an 11-4 loss to the Portsmouth Clay Panthers on Thursday in the Division 7 district semifinals. “You can’t put that many runners on base and give up that many unearned runs and expect to win, especially against a good team,” said Flyers’ coach Nick Medinger. “We got down and our kids battle

LOGAN — The Green Bobcats remained hot. And why not? They had a fireballer lighting the fuse. Jon Knapp pitched a 3-hitter as he racked up 11 strikeouts against 3 walks and Green blanked the Southern Tornadoes 8-0 in the Division 7 district semifinals. The strikeout total enabled the Rio Grande recruit to surpass 400 for his career. Green (21-4) will play Glouster Trimble (19-7) at 2 p.m. Thursday in the district title game. “That was a good team win. Jon pitched another grea

PEDRO — “Can you hear me? That when it rains and shines It’s just a state of mind Can you hear me? Can you hear me” — Rain by The Beatles While the rain fell and caused some throwing errors, the Ironton Fighting Tigers fought through the weather, and used the two-hit pitching of Braydon Baker to blank the Portsmouth West Senators 4-0 in the Division 5 district semifinals on Friday. “We had a few miscues, but our kids are mentally tough and can put things behind them and keep

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FLATWOODS — Greenup County's Brody Howard delivered a gem of a performance from the mound on Monday night to help the Musketeers beat the Red Devils 5-1 in the nightcap of the 63rd District Semifinals on Monday. Howard pitched a two-hit gem while going the distance for the Musketeers. The sophomore also struck out six batters, walked seven and the only run given up was unearned. Howard also picked off a pair of Red Devil baserunners in key situations to limit Russell's scorin

IRONTON — The Ironton Fighting Tigers fell behind 3-0 in the top of the first inning. No problem. Despite falling behind early, Ironton chipped away and got a 4-3 walk-off win over the Amanda-Clearcreek Aces on Monday. “We gave up some runs to start the game, but the kids fought back and won it in the seventh,” said Ironton coach John Hunt. “Dawson (Philyaw) pitched a great game. They didn’t get anything after the first inning.” Dawson Philyaw allowed just 5 hits, struck out

AID — Holland the country is known for windmills. Holland — the Symmes Valley pitcher is —know for fighting opposing batters. Gradee Holland battled opposing batters like Don Quixote battled the windmills as the Vikings beat the Chesapeake Panthers 6-4 on Friday. Holland scattered 10 hits, struck out 8 and walked just 2 as the Vikings built a 6-1 lead and held on for the win. Chesapeake (11-15) took a 1-0 lead to start the game when Kaden Perkins reached on an error, stole se

SEAMAN — For Saint Joseph, this week might have seemed to take extra longer than usual. After playing 11 innings on Monday, the Flyers capped off the week with another extra inning game and beat the North Adams Green Devils 2-1 in nine innings on Friday. Pitching dominated much of the game for both teams. Barrett Waginger provided another solid pitching performance for the Flyers, going nine innings on the mound and giving up four hits, a walk and striking out six batters. Th

PORTSMOUTH — If you have 6 walks and 6 errors, you’re probably looking at a loss. Well, if you’re the Green Bobcats, you’re looking pretty good. Green used the 3-hit pitching of Jon Knapp to overcome 6 walks and 6 errors to beat the Portsmouth Trojans 12-4 on Wednesday. “It was ugly, but it was a win,” said Green coach Dave Shoupe. “Usually, when you have a game like this it ends up badly for you. But we hit the ball and Jon pitched really well except for the walks.” Knapp st

AID — The Fairland Dragons pushed across a run in the 8th inning to edge the Symmes Valley Vikings 2-1 on Tuesday. The game was a pitching duel between the Dragons’ Josh Gillespie and Nolan Fleming and the Vikings’ Tanner Corn and Gradee Holland. Fleming went the final 2 innings to get the win as he gave up one hit. Gillespie went the first 6 innings and allowed 3 hits, one earned run with 11 strikeouts and 3 walks. Corn went 7 innings striking out 12, walked 2 and he gave u

FRANKLIN FURNACE — Overtime must pay well for the Green Bobcats. Green proved working extra with pay dividends as the Bobcats beat the Peebles Indians 7-6 in nine innings on Tuesday. In the bottom of the ninth, Gabe Blevins walked, stole second, took third on a hit by Jon Knapp and scored on a sacrifice fly by Nolan McMackin. Peebles (14-9) took a 2-0 lead in the top of the first inning when Bo Johnson doubled, Crew Wilson walked, and Nash Grooms reached on an error to score

IRONTON — For baseball players, the St. Joseph Flyers are pretty good at marathons. The Flyers pushed across a run in the 11th inning as they outlasted the Coal Grove Hornets 3-2 in a non-league game on Monday. St. Joseph (13-6) got the winning run in the 11th with one out when Beckham Waginger singled, stole second, took third on a passed ball and scored on a sacrifice fly by Carson Lyons. The Flyers took a 1-0 lead in the first inning when Mason Weber walked and Beckham Wag

JACKSON — It was a post-conference letdown. After wrapping up a share of the Ohio Valley Conference last week, Ironton traveled to play the Frontier Athletic Conference champion Jackson Ironman on Monday and the Fighting Tigers were not up to championship form in a 6-0 loss. “Jackson has a good team but we did not execute very well,” said Ironton coach John Hunt. “We were tentative in our approach in hitting, pitching and defensively which led to walks and called third strike

FORT GAY, WVa. — It wasn't perfect but it certainly was as close as you could get. Freshman pitcher Barrett Waginger retired his first 13 batters in a row and wound up facing 18 total as he helped the Saint Joseph Flyers rout the Tolsia Rebels 11-1 on Friday night. "Barrett did an excellent job for us again," said Flyers coach Nick Medinger. "It was also good to see us not have a letdown after the Notre Dame game and come out hitting early." The Flyers improved their record t

FLATWOODS, Ky. — After some early scoring, both pitching staffs' for Russell and Fairland settled in and turned the game into a pitchers' duel, with the Red Devils hanging on to edge past the Dragons 3-2 on Friday night. Russell used a trio of pitchers in the game, with Jayden Frasure picking up the win in 3 innings of work. Frasure gave up 5 hits, 2 runs, struck out 3 and walked a pair. Hayden McGowan and Caleb Groves both threw 2 innings apiece and combined for 4 scoreless

IRONTON — After falling behind 3-0, the Saint Joseph Flyers rolled off eight unanswered runs to beat the Notre Dame Titans 8-3 to close out Southern Ohio Conference play on Thursday evening. "Our guys responded tremendously after going down 3-0," said Flyers coach Nick Medinger. "Evan (Aldridge) survived that first inning and gave us a great 6 innings to close it out." The Flyers improved their record to 11-6 on the season and finished 4-4 in SOC play. The Titans fell to 11-1