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Muskingum lacrosse team faces an uphill battle to get their

season back on track by Matthew Dotson

Owen Winkler fights the Purple Raiders for the faceoff. Matthew Dotson

Vs. Marietta (4/2) the last quarter of the game, landing six fense, who built a 15 – 0 lead before 6 – 0 lead by the end of the first quar-
On Wednesday, the Fighting Muskies goals of their own, but with the damage halftime. ter. Muskingum battled back with two
men’s Lacrosse team traveled to Mariet- already done, they were not able to over- Opening the second half was a mirror landed goals in the second quarter, but
ta to play the Pioneers. Despite battling come the Pioneers, and they headed image of the first period as Baldwin Wal- the Raiders grabbed three more to take
hard, Marietta outpaced the Muskies home with a 16 – 12 loss. lace dominated the field and found the a 9 – 2 lead into the intermission.
in the first period, taking a 3 – 1 lead net seven more times with a 22 – 0 lead The Muskies fell just shy of match-
at the end of the first quarter. In the Vs. Baldwin Wallace (3/29) heading into the final period of play. ing the intensity of the Raiders in the
second period, Muskingum landed two Saturday’s trip to Tressel Field in Muskingum gathered their strength and third quarter as they battled out a 4 – 5
more shots on the net but the Pioneers Berea, Ohio, was one the Fighting landed two shots in the final quarter scoring period with their opponents, but
doubled that effort to take a 7 – 3 lead Muskies would just as soon forget. but it was too late as the Yellow Jackets Mount Union led 14 – 6 heading into
into the halftime break. From the moment they stepped on the took a huge 25 – 2 win. the fourth period. The Raiders kept their
Back on the field, Marietta came field, the Yellow Jackets went right to edge as they went 2 – 1 on goals in the
out of the locker room fired up for the task, shutting out the Muskies’ offense Vs. Mount Union (3/26) fourth quarter and took the entire game
second half and landed shot after shot and taking a huge 7 – 0 lead before the New Concord hosted the Mount Union with a 16 – 7 point spread.
while the Fighting Muskies tried to keep beginning of the second period. The Purple Raiders on Wednesday. The
up, but with a 3 – 6 advantage on the second period was even more difficult Raiders stayed true to their names as
quarter, Marietta ended the period up for Muskingum as they couldn’t find a they pummeled the Muskies in the first
13 – 6. The Muskies pushed back in way to shut down the Yellow Jackets’ of- few minutes ot the game, taking a quick

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Tri-Valley Lady Dawgs on a six game winning streak to start the

season

Tri-Valley didn’t waste any time in game but still trailed by one after five innings Holdsworth stepped up to the bag to Leas a chance to grab three more runs,
two, taking a 3 – 0 lead after the bot- when Tri-Valley added a fifth run to their smack another double for the Lady TV up by 11. Cydnee Wolford scored on
tom of the 1st inning. Both teams went tally. The Lady Bulldogs tried to rally in Dawgs, bringing home Davis for 3. Hold- an error by the Maysville third baseman,
scoreless until the top of the seventh the top of the 7th but fell a run short, swortch scored on a single by Delaney ending the second inning with Tri-Valley
inning when Indian Valley scored two and the Scotties won 5 – 4. Bell, making the Scotties up by 4. Bell leading 12 – 0. The Scotties’ last run of
runs, falling short of a tie, and the Lady scored on an error along with Katelyn the day came in the bottom of the 4th
Dawgs swept the doubleheader with a Vs Maysville (3/27) Paxson giving Tri-Valley a 6 point advan- inning when Reffitt hit a sacrifice fly to
2 – 3 victory in game 2. On Thursday at Kenny Wolford Park tage before the inning was shut down by center, allowing Wolford to score the
in Dresden, the Lady Dawgs took on the Panthers. The second inning started 13th run for the Lady Dawgs before the
Vs. Heath (3/28) the Maysville Panthers. Right from the off in the same way, with Murphy pitch- game ended in a Mercy decision after a
Tri-Valley hosted the Heath Lady Bull- start, TV Pitcher Paiton Murphy popped ing three quick outs before putting the 1,2,3 top of the fifth inning. Murphy was
dogs on Friday in Kenny Wolford Park. out a 1,2,3 inning. In the bottom of the Scottie batting lineup back to work. Pe- attributed the shutout for Tri-Valley.
The Scotties came out of the gate swing- 1st, Alivia Refitt homered to left field, terson scored for Tri-Valley on an error in
ing, grabbing a run in each of the first scoring a run for the Scotties and tak- the bottom of the 2nd, followed by Hold-
two innings, followed by two runs in the ing a 1 – 0 lead over Maysville. Ally Pe- sworth scoring on a wild pitch to give Tri-
bottom of the third inning for a 4 – 0 terson walked on the next play and was Valley an 8 – 0 lead. On Murphy’s next ADVERTISE IN THE DRESDEN BUZZ.
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