Vs Senior Pioneers (6/20)
The Junior Pioneers are no strangers to playing the Senior Pioneers but they were hoping for a win at Gant Stadium on Thursday. As the game opened the two teams went scoreless for the first two innings until the Jr Pioneers picked up their first run in the top of the third inning taking a 1 – 0 lead and padding that run with another in the top of the third before the Senior Pioneers answered back in the bottom of the inning with a run of their own but were still trailing 2 – 1. The top of the fifth inning had the Jr Pioneers adding a run to their lead, but the Sr Pioneers came back in the bottom of the inning to tie the game at 3 each. The game went on scoreless untill the Sr Pioneers grabbed the final go-ahead run in the bottom of the eighth inning to win the match 4 – 3.
Vs TNT (6/18)
When the TNT College Knights came to town to the Gant Stadium on Tuesday they came ready to play. From the start they grabbed three runs in the top of the first inning and padded that lead to 4 – 0 by the top of the second. Zanesville picked up two runs in the bottom of the second to narrow the deficit down to 4 – 2. TNT packed two more runs into the top of the third inning to push the lead back up to 6 – 2 against the Jr Pioneers. The Knights held the Pioneers scoreless throughout the remainder of the game and tacked on three more runs of their own in the top of the seventh to take the game 9 – 2.
Vs Bruins doubleheader (6/15)
In game one against the Bruins at Gant Stadium, the Junior Pioneers shut out their opponents and capitalized on the shutout in the second inning when Melick and Campbell both scored on a single by Blecha on the ground to center field taking a 2 – 0 lead. The Pioneers wrapped up scoring in the bottom of the third inning with a triple by Reiss that scored Swartz and Hammersly followed by a ground out by Jennings to bring in the final run of the game when Reis stepped across home plate. The Bruins could not come back and after six and a half innings the Pioneers took the 5 – 0 win on game one.
Game two started out with a three-run leap ahead by the Pioneers in the bottom of the first inning when Teke scored on a single by Hammersly, and Swartz scored on an error, followed by Jennings’s single that brought in Hammersly for a 3 – 0 lead. Pulling a repeat in the bottom of the second inning quickly had the Junior Pioneers up by 6 – 0. The Bruins battled but couldn’t land a run. After two scoreless innings, the Pioneers capped off their score with three runs in the bottom of the fifth inning and one more in the bottom of the sixth to take a 10 – 0 victory in game two and a clean sweep of the doubleheader
