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Jr Pioneers swept Columbus MVL Leads All-Star Football

doubleheader before dropping Series 23 – 19 after Friday’s

to TNT and Sr Pioneers by Matthew Dotson 40 – 26 win in New Lexington

New Lexington’s Jim Rockwell Sta- Licking Valley opened scoring in
dium was host to the 2024 Muskingum the fourth quarter with Utica’s Justin
Valley vs Licking Valley All-Stars game Giffin making a short run for paydirt to
on Friday, June 14th. Licking Valley push back at Muskingum and narrow
was hoping to narrow down the tally of their lead to 32 – 20. Niceswanger hit
Muskingum and not let them get too Sheridan’s Bryson Ruff for a 24-yard
much farther ahead in the series. Musk- touchdown after a long drive initiated
ingum Valley struck first with a short- by Licking Valley’s 66-yard punt, putting
reach touchdown that gave them a 6 – 0 Muskingum Valley up 40 – 20 with only
lead in the first quarter. Licking Valley 3:06 left on the clock.
couldn’t let it stand and came back with Licking Valley pushed on, finding Ja-
a touchdown of their own with the extra cob Wheeler open they hit him up for a
point to boot giving them a 7 – 6 advan- 14-yard touchdown, just barely landing
tage. inside the endzone on the back side to
The second quarter saw Muskingum end the scoring for the night with a final
take the lead back with a run-in touch- tally of Muskingum Valley 40 – Licking
down that gave them a 12 – 6 edge. Valley 26. This set the record for the se-
The MVL boys kept pushing hard and ries to 23 – 19 in Muskingum’s favor.
ended a drive with a pass to Tri-Valley’s
Ashton Sensibaugh to pad their lead at
19 – 7 after the extra point. Licking Val-
Junior Pioneers first baseman Brody Hammersley tries to tag out the runner for the Senior ley hit Jacob Wheeler with a short pass
Pioneers. Matthew Dotson
to narrow the gap and LV went into the
Vs Senior Pioneers (6/20) Vs Bruins doubleheader (6/15) halftime break down 19 – 14. READ & SHARE THE
The Junior Pioneers are no strang- In game one against the Bruins at After the intermission, Coshocton’s
ers to playing the Senior Pioneers but Gant Stadium, the Junior Pioneers shut Riley Woodie came out of nowhere to BUZZ ONLINE IN
they were hoping for a win at Gant Sta- out their opponents and capitalized on blast past all the defenders for a 65-
dium on Thursday. As the game opened the shutout in the second inning when yard touchdown for Muskingum Valley FULL COLOR
the two teams went scoreless for the Melick and Campbell both scored on a increasing their lead to 26 – 19 after
first two innings until the Jr Pioneers single by Blecha on the ground to center the PAT. But Muskingum Valley was DRESDENBUZZ.COM
picked up their first run in the top of field taking a 2 – 0 lead. The Pioneers not finished there, Morgan’s Logan
the third inning taking a 1 – 0 lead and wrapped up scoring in the bottom of the Niceswanger found fellow team mem-
padding that run with another in the top third inning with a triple by Reiss that ber Kole Searl downfield for a 25-yard
of the third before the Senior Pioneers scored Swartz and Hammersly followed touchdown giving Muskingum a 32 –
answered back in the bottom of the in- by a ground out by Jennings to bring 14 lead ending the scoring for the third
ning with a run of their own but were still in the final run of the game when Reis quarter.
trailing 2 – 1. The top of the fifth inning stepped across home plate. The Bruins
had the Jr Pioneers adding a run to their could not come back and after six and a
lead, but the Sr Pioneers came back in half innings the Pioneers took the 5 – 0
the bottom of the inning to tie the game win on game one.
at 3 each. The game went on scoreless Game two started out with a three-
untill the Sr Pioneers grabbed the final run leap ahead by the Pioneers in the
go-ahead run in the bottom of the eighth bottom of the first inning when Teke
inning to win the match 4 – 3. scored on a single by Hammersly, and
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When the TNT College Knights came mersly for a 3 – 0 lead. Pulling a re-
to town to the Gant Stadium on Tuesday peat in the bottom of the second inning
they came ready to play. From the start quickly had the Junior Pioneers up by
they grabbed three runs in the top of the 6 – 0. The Bruins battled but couldn’t
first inning and padded that lead to 4 – land a run. After two scoreless innings,
0 by the top of the second. Zanesville the Pioneers capped off their score with
picked up two runs in the bottom of the three runs in the bottom of the fifth in-
second to narrow the deficit down to 4 ning and one more in the bottom of the
– 2. TNT packed two more runs into the sixth to take a 10 – 0 victory in game
top of the third inning to push the lead two and a clean sweep of the double-
back up to 6 – 2 against the Jr Pioneers. header
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.

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Pitcher Jake Roshau throws a pitch from the mound. Matthew Dotson