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Zanesville Blue Devils pick up three wins and a draw as the

season warms up by Matthew Dotson

Vs. Crooksville (4/12) Goins to score and push the lead to 5
The Crooksville Ceramics came to – 3 Zanesville. During the next at-bat,
Zanesville to play the Blue Devils at Jay Murray sacrificed to score Norris before
Payton Field on Saturday. The game ending the inning up 6 – 3. The Ceram-
started off slowly, with neither team ics couldn’t muster a run in the next two
scoring in the first inning. The Ceramics innings as the Blue Devils drove the fi-
hit the scoreboard first in the top of the nal nail in the bottom of the 6th when
2nd inning off of a fielder’s choice by Darnes scored on an error followed by
Cottrell, taking an early 1 – 0 lead be- Norris scoring on a ground out by Murray
fore Noah Darnes ended the inning by to cap Zanesville’s score at 8. Crooks-
striking out the final batter. The Devils ville went down in the top of the 7th in
answered back in the bottom of the 2nd a double-play followed by a strike-out to
with a sacrifice fly by Darnes to allow Eli- give the Devils the 8 – 3 victory.
jah Curtis to score and tie up the game On Friday, the Blue Devils rode the
at 1 – 1. Crooksville grabbed back the bus to play Licking Heights. Zanesville
lead with a run in the bottom of the 3rd grabbed a 3 – 0 lead by the top of the
to set the score at 2 – 1 Ceramics. In 3rd inning, but Licking Heights tied the
the bottom of the 3rd, the Blue Devils game at 3 in the bottom of the inning.
landed a run off of a fly ball to right field Zanesville landed a run in the top of the
by Canon Mercer that brought Solomon 5th to jump back up to a 4 – 3 lead, but
Norris across the plate for the tying run. Licking Heights tied the game at 4 in the
Mahki Murray scored on the next at bat bottom of the 7th. There was no score in
to take the go-ahead run. Tyson Kimble the 8th inning, so the two teams walked
stepped up to the plate to hit a sacrifice away with a 4 – 4 draw.
to the pitcher to allow Mercer to take The Blue Devils beat Newark Catholic
the final run of the inning, topping the 1 – 0 and the Watkins Memorial War-
scoreboard at Zanesville 4 – Crooksville riors 7 – 4 earlier in the week.
2. The Ceramics popped out a run in the Zanesville will be hosting a double-
top of the 4th but still trailed the Blue header against the Madison Rams on
Canon Mercer slid into second base for the Blue Devils in a game against Crooksville. Devils by one as Zanesville went back Saturday. Game one starts at 12 PM.
Matthew Dotson to their batting lineup. Norris popped
a single to right field to allow Greyson
Electrics baseball digging Maysville softball fell to MVL

out as they knock down two challengers Morgan and New

conference competitors Lexington by Matthew Dotson

by Matthew Dotson
Vs. Morgan (4/16) started off by a score by Burkhart when
come was in turn allowed to score off
of an error to notch the score up to 10 The Lady Panthers hosted the Morgan Metzger was hit by a pitch, followed by
– 3, Electrics. Tom singled in the 4th to Raiders on Wednesday in Maysville. Af- two runs by walk, and a double by McCoy
bring in Colborn, and Gooden crossed ter holding Morgan scoreless in the top to land Torres and Buckman on home
the plate thanks to a single by Phillip. of the 1st, the Panthers jumped out to for 6 – 0. McCoy scored on a passed
Tom scored on an error in the next at- an early lead when Kam Brooks scored ball, and then Dupler tripled to left field
bat, pushing the Electrics out to a 13 – on an error. Morgan answered back in to bring in Burkhart and Greene for the 9
3 lead after four innings. The Generals the top of the 3rd inning when P. Lan- – 0 start. Three quick outs for Maysville,
managed a three-run rally in the top of ning scored on a walk to tie up the game and Pyle doubled for New Lex to bring in
the 5th, knocking down Philos’ lead to at 1. Myers doubled in the next at-bat to their 10th run before the bottom of the
13 – 6. Sheridan came back to six big score Rush and Kangas, giving the Raid- 2nd inning. Maysville hit the scoreboard
runs in the top of the 7th inning, but they ers a 3 – 1 lead. Next up, York doubled in the bottom of the 2nd when Avi Wil-
were not able to eclipse the Electrics, to center field, bringing home Keirns son doubled to bring home Sophie Den-
and Philo took the 13 – 11 MVL win. and Myers. York scored later in the in- nis to end the inning down 10 – 1. Bur-
ning on a passed ball, in the same play khart stole home for New Lex in the top
Garrett Tom trying to beat the double-play against Vs. New Lexington (4/11) Rush singled to bring home Baker to of the 3rd before Maysville shut them
Tri-Valley. Matthew Dotson end the top of the inning, up 7 – 1 over down 11 – 1 New Lex. The visitors went
The New Lexington Panthers trav-
eled to Duncan Falls on Friday to play Maysville. The Panthers’ batting lineup on to tack on two more runs in the top of
Vs. Sheridan (4/15) the Electrics. After two strikeouts and went down in three to bring up the top the 4th inning and three in the top of the
of the 4th inning. Parsons scored for
5th. Maysville was not able to recover
The Electrics hosted the Generals on a ground out, Foster completed his first Morgan on a single hit by Kangas to and lost the game 16 – 1.
Tuesday in Duncan Falls. After Wyatt inning on the mound successfully, al- take their lead to 8 – 1 before Tumb- The Lady Panthers play West Musk-
Tysinger fired through four batters to lowing the batting order to start up. Tom lin ended the inning with a strikeout. ingum at home on Monday, with the
clear the top of the 1st inning, it was scored on a wild pitch, followed by Lin- Johnson, Milatovich, and Mitton all went game to start at 5 PM.
batter-up for Josh Gooden, who singled cicome doubling to bring in Phillp for a down with hits but just couldn’t make it
to right field only to be brought home 2 – 0 lead. The lead held until the top of on base in the bottom of the 4th. Max-
by a triple from Garrett Tom in the next the 5th inning when New Lex tied up the well scored for the Raiders in the top of
at-bat to give Philo a quick 1 – 0 lead. game and jumped out ahead to a 4 – 2 the 5th when Parsons was hit by a pitch,
Tom scored on a passed ball, followed lead. The Electrics answered back in the and Augenstein scored on a walk, fol-
by Ky-Mani Phillip scoring on a wild pitch bottom of the 5th inning with a single lowed by Keirns hitting into a fielder’s
to jump the lead to 3. Lincicome scored from Phillip to bring in Tom, followed choice, allowing Rush to score. Myers hit
on an error, and Masen Runkle grabbed by a double from Runkle that brought a single to first base, giving Welsh time
the final run of the inning off of a field- in Phillip for the tie and Roush for the to cross the plate. And just before the
er’s choice hit by Clayton Colborn to end go-ahead run to take back the lead at last out of the inning, Myers stole home
the inning up 5 – 0. Sheridan hit the 5 – 4. The Electrics added one more run base, and Maxwell doubled to bring in
scoreboard in the top of the 2nd inning, in the bottom of the 6th while holding Baker and Clawson for a total of 15 –
picking up three runs off of an error to off the Panther offense to take a 6 – 4 1 against Maysville. The Panthers went
narrow the lead to Electrics 5 – Gener- victory. down quickly in the bottom of the 5th to
als 3. Gooden homered to right field in The two wins were a great reward to end the game.
the first at-bat of the bottom of the 2nd. the week that started with double loss-
Runkle landed an RBI by driving in Tom es to Tri-Valley. Philo is currently 2 – 6 Vs. New Lexington (4/15) Lady Panther’s Kam Brooks dives under the throw
on a single to center to end the scoring on the season and will play on Saturday On Tuesday in Maysville, the New to second to stay safe. Matthew Dotson
for the inning, up 7 – 3. In the bottom of when they host Cambridge, game time Lexington Lady Panthers came to play,
the 3rd, Colborn scored on a wild pitch, is set for 11 AM. blasting out of the gate with a 9 – 0 lead,
and Lincicome drove home Tom. Linci-