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Tri-Valley 14 - 3 overall and undefeated in the MVL

after sweeping Morgan by Matthew Dotson

Nash Baughman lines up a pitch on their home field. Matthew Dotson

Vs. Morgan (4/28, 4/30) a sacrifice fly from Cullins in the bottom Vs. Sheridan (4/21 – 4/22) sending the Scotties home with a 7 – 1
The Scotties hit the road on Monday to of the 1st. Kaufman proceeded to hom- During game two in Thornville on loss.
head to McConnelsville for game one in er over the left field fence in the bottom Tuesday, Tri-Valley once again was the
a two-game series against the Raiders. of the 2nd inning to give the Scotties a 2 first to light the scoreboard with three Vs. Coshocton (4/17)
The first two innings of the game went – 0 advantage. West M answered back quick runs in the top of the 3rd inning. On Thursday in Coshocton, the Scot-
on without a score until the top of the in the top of the 3rd with a run from Hill They grabbed one more run off of a sin- ties were looking to shock the Redskins
3rd, where the Dawgs landed a couple who scored on an error to cut the Dawgs gle by Riley in the top of the 5th, and and they started in that direction right
of singles to get on the board with a 3 – lead in half. A double and two singles Harrold pitched the second of two shut- out of the gate. Ryan Lamonica start-
0 lead. Two more runs in the fifth from in the bottom of the inning pushed Tri- outs against the Generals to sweep the ed the scoring for the Diamond Dawgs
Cullins and Harrold, and the Dawgs led Valley ahead 6 – 1. They held that lead series with a 4 – 0 victory. with a double to left field that brought
5 – 0. Tri-Valley pushed out one more until the top of the 5th when Wiseman Kenny Wolford Park hosted game one home Brady Kaufman and Kade Hindel
run to win game one with a 6 – 0 score. hit a three-run homer for the Tornadoes against the Sheridan Generals on Mon- for a quick 2 – 0 followed by a sacrifice
Harrold was credited with a no-hitter. close the gap back to two at 6 – 4 TV. day, where the Diamond Dawgs took fly by Isaiah Cullins that brought La-
Morgan was not ready for the trip to Kaufman scored on a single by Harrold the lead in the bottom of the 1st off of monica across home plate for a 3 – 0
Dresden on Wednesday, as the Dawgs in the bottom of the 6th to increase to a double from Harrold to put Tri-Valley lead before a fly out in the next at-bat
caught them off guard with a light- seven runs. A double from Wiseman up 1 – 0. Kaufman pitched two straight to place the mark at 2 – outs for the top
speed first inning where they popped made the game a little too close for shutout innings before stepping up to of the 1st, Gavin Harrold stole home
out an eight-run rally. Picking up three comfort for Tri-Valley but Hindel was the plate to smack a homer into left when Carter Dinan was up to the plate,
runs each in the bottom of the next two able to wrap things up from the mound field in the bottom of the 3rd to increase Dinan singled on a pop fly to shortstop
innings, Tri-Valley was up 14 – 0 before and the Dawgs took a 7 – 6 victory. Tri-Valley’s lead to 2 – 0. Brady made to grab an RBI when Drummonds ran
the single run that Morgan landed in the a repeat performance in the bottom of across home plate to kick the score up
top of the 4th. The Dawgs ended their Vs. New Lexington (4/24) the 4th with a grand slam, followed by to 5 – 0. Kaufman officially kicked the
scoring run with another rally in the 7th The Panthers rode the bus to Dresden a single from Lamonica to score Hindel opening inning rally into high gear with
inning for seven runs, winning the game on Thursday, where they shut down in to take the inning 7 – 0. After another a three-run homer to center field. Harr-
after shutting down the Morgan offense the 1st inning before the Scotties used three straight outs for the Generals, the old doubled to left to bring in Hindel and
in the top of the 5th for a series sweep a double, a single, and a wild pitch to Dawgs wrapped up the game with two Lamonica to finalize the top of the 1st
and a 21 – 1 victory. jump out to a 5 – 0 lead in the bottom of more runs from Huffman, and Baker inning at 10 – 0. Coshocton picked up
the 1st inning. By the bottom of the next stole home to end the game with a shut- a single run in the bottom of the 2nd in-
Vs. Big Walnut (4/26) inning, they had increased their score to out 10 – 0 score. ning before Nash Baughman struck out
On the road Saturday, the Scotties 8 – 0 with help from a double from Riley the final batter. Lamonica singled in the
jumped out to a 5 – 1 lead over Big and a fielder’s choice from Casen Baker Vs. Dover (4/19) top of the 3rd to allow Kaufman to score
Walnut but the offense stalled out as that led to two runs. New Lex grabbed The Scotties headed to Dover to play in the first of nine runs for the inning to
the Eagles tuned them up for two runs a run in the top of the 3rd before being the Crimson Tornadoes on Saturday, jump out to a huge 19 – 1 lead. Drum-
in the 4th and then tied the game and stopped again. Kaufman homered over where they jumped out ahead in the top monds hit a sacrifice fly in the top of the
grabbed the go-ahead run in the bottom the center field fence in the bottom of of the 1st on a single from Harrold to run 5th to allow Casen Baker to score the
of the 7th inning to leave the Scotties in the 3rd to set the score to 9 – 1, Tri-Val- in Kaufman, putting them up 1 – 0. The 20th run, followed by Brocklehurst hit-
the lurch with a 6 – 5 loss. ley. Kaufman hit a three-run homer in Dawgs held the lead until the bottom of ting a single to bring in Harrold to end
the bottom of the 4th inning to cap the the 4th inning when Mast singled for a the inning up 21 – 1. Quinton Hindel
Vs. West Muskingum (4/25) Scotties runs at 12. In the top of the 5th Dover run to tie the game at 1 – 1. A pitched for a strikeout, a flyout, and a
On Friday, Tri-Valley played the West inning the Panthers grabbed a run on an couple of Tri-Valley errors and another pop-up to end the game for the win.
Muskingum Tornadoes and started the error but that was the end of their game single from Dover put them in the lead
game with Nash Baughman pitching a as Hahn was thrown out advancing to 5 – 1. Gibb hit a two-run homer over the
1,2,3 inning before Kaufman scored on second giving the Dawgs a 12 – 2 win. left field fence to wrap up the game,