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Zanesville Blue Devil Tennis Lil’ Muskies softball team

team competed in Division II prepping for postseason facing

Tournament play at Dover Garaway on Friday

City Park by Matthew Dotson by Matthew Dotson

Matthew Dotson

On Monday, the Zanesville Tennis “Congratulations to James Goggin
team took the much-anticipated trip and Coach Tim Gibson from Cambridge
to Dover City Park to take part in the for winning the singles sectionals.
OHSAA Division II tournament. Congratulations to Sami Latouf and
In singles action, ZHS’s Karter Blud- Alex Pringle, and coach Trevor Miller
nick beat Miller from West Holmes, then from West Holmes for winning the dou-
fell to Hoffman of Steubenville. Connor bles sectionals.
Baldwin beat Javrequi of SCC, and then Monday, May 19th at 10 am will be
fell to Sawn of St. Clairsville. Dhruv Patel the East District Division 2 tennis district.
fell to Goggin of Cambridge. tournament It will be single elimination
For the doubles matchups, Zanes- with the singles champion and doubles
ville’s Steven Morrison / Dhruv Pattel champion qualifying for the state tour-
fell to Hiland’s Lehman Mullet. Andres nament at the College of Wooster on
Limon / Chase Gillogly won against Co- May 29th.” stated OHSAA Tournament
shocton Stubbs / Aaronholt and fell to Manager Jason Otto.
Hiland’s Jones / Troyer.

John Glenn’s batter hitting a single to get on base against Tri-Valley. Matthew Dotson

Vs. St. Clairsville (5/13) Vs. Tri-Valley (5/0)
John Glenn hosted St. Clairsville John Glenn headed to Dresden on
on Tuesday, as they opened the game Wednesday to Kenny Wolford Park,
with a triple strikeout against their op- where they were hoping to upset the
ponents. Kinley Porter hit a sacrifice fly Scotties. Tri-Valley jumped out to the
to bring in Addison Babcock for the 1 – early lead with a run in the bottom of the
0 lead. Kendall Snider dished out three 2nd inning, but the Muskies recovered
more strikeouts from the mound. Bab- quickly. Porter hit a double in the top of
cock singled in the bottom of the 2nd the 3rd to bring in Brown and tie up the
to bring in Delaney Bell to take a 3 – 0 game. Miller grounded out in the next
lead. Bella Daniels hit a single in the bot- at-bat to bring home Porter on an error
tom of the 3rd to bring home Porter, and to take the lead 2 – 1. Porter scored at
Bell singled to bring in Daniels to lead 5 the top of the 5th on the ground out by
– 0. A walk, a triple, and a single made it Maldenado, 3 – 1 Muskies. Keffer Hom-
an eight-run inning to end the game with ered for Tri-Valley to narrow it back to 3
the winning score of 11 – 0. – 2. Bell doubled later in the inning to tie
up the game at 3.. In the bottom of the
Vs. Philo (5/08) 7th inning, Paiton Murphy hit a two-run
The Lady Electrics came to New homer to instantly win the game 5 – 3.
Concord on Thursday, and John Glenn
was certain they would not be much of Vs. New Lexington (5/01)
a challenge, but the Philo girls held their In the neighboring county, the Lil’
own for the first three and a half innings. Muskies went to face the Panthers on
The Muskies grabbed their first run in Thursday. Both teams were struggling
the bottom of the 4th inning when Bell to get off of the ground in the first two
sacrificed a hit to bring home Harper for innings, but in the top of the 3rd, Bab-
a 1 – 0 lead. Bell singled in the bottom cock sacrificed a fly ball to bring home
of the 5th, scoring Porter and Daniels Wunder to lead 1 – 0. New Lex tied up
and pushing the lead to 3 – 0. Babcock the game in the bottom of the 7th with
homered for John Glenn in the bottom a single by Metzger. Snider singled for
of the 6th, followed by a triple from Ma- John Glenn in the top of the 8th inning
theney to let Porter score, followed by to bring home Porter and grab back the
Matheney scoring on a steal of home lead at 2 – 1 to win the game after three
base to lead at the end of the inning by straight strikeouts by Snider on the
a score of 6 – 0. After three straight outs mound for John Glenn.
in the top of the 7th, the Muskies had a
shutout 6 – 0 victory.