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Lady Dawgs powerhouse Zanesville Lady Blue Devils

pitcher signs letter of intent to wrap up regular season play

play softball with Youngstown falling to Tri-Valley and

State University Cambridge by Matthew Dotson

Paiton Murphy (middle) pictured with her family at her signing ceremony. Submitted
Paiton Murphy has been a stand- was named 1st Team All-Muskingum
out on the mound and in the batter’s Valley League and gained All District
box for Tri-Valley for some time, and she honors and was an honorable mention
is taking the next step to continue her for All-Ohio.

Murphy is looking forward to her
softball career at Youngstown State Uni-
SPORTS a 22- 7 record in OHSAA Division I. She Murphy currently has a 4.00 GPA and
time at Youngstown State studying Biol-
versity, an NCAA D-1 school. In her pre-
vious season with Tri-Valley, Paiton had ogy and playing softball as a Penguin.
helped guide her team to a Sectional is a CCP student at Zane State College,
Title and was instrumental in helping as well as being a Muskingum Valley
the team achieve the District Runner-Up League Scholar.
Title. Paiton boasts a 2.18 ERA for the
Paiton has played softball since she
current season with 13 wins and four was seven years old and is on track to go
losses. Murphy has had nine home runs far this postseason with the Lady Daw-
this season, with six from last season, gs.
30 RBIs on 31 hits. Last season, Paiton

Zanesville’s Katie Brooks fires off a pitch against Cambridge. Matthew Dotson

Vs. Tri-Valley (5/12) bridge rallied in the top of the 6th inning
The Zanesville softball team head- to push their way out to a 17 – 0 victory
ed to Dresden’s Kenny Wolford Park on over the Lady Blue Devils.
Monday to face Tri-Valley. The Blue Dev-
ils took to the scoreboard first with a Vs. Johnstown-Monroe (5/07)
run from Wallace off a ground out from On a Wednesday afternoon trip to
Walker to lead 1 – 0. The Scotties tied Johnstown, the Lady Blue Devils faced
the game on a run from an error in the the Johnnies on their home field. John-
bottom of the 1st, followed by another stown-Monroe started off what would
run from Wolford to jump out to a 2 – end up being a 13-run rally in the bot-
1 lead. Peterson hit a three-run homer tom of the 1st with a three-run home run
for the Scotties, followed by three more by Zak. Adding five more runs in the bot-
runs from a walk and a double, plus a tom of the 2nd, the Johnnies led by 18
run on an error, before Refitt hit a two- – 0 at the end of the inning. After setting
run homer for Tri-Valley to end the inning the Blue Devils up for three quick outs,
up 11 – 1 over Zanesville. The bottom Johnstown-Monroe smashed out anoth-
of the 2nd inning brought about a four- er eight-run rally in the bottom of the 3rd
run rally for the Dawgs to increase their to finalize their score at 26 and shut out
lead to 15 – 1. While holding Zanesville Zanesville to take the 26 – 0 win.
to just the one run, Tri-Valley came back
for a run in the bottom of the 3rd inning Vs. Licking Valley (5/02)
and two more in the bottom of the 4th The Lady Panthers traveled to
before the game was called at 18 – 1 Zanesville on Friday to face the Lady
after the top of the 5th inning. Blue Devils. From the start of the first
inning, the Panthers took control of the
Vs. Cambridge (5/10) game, jumping out to a 3 – 0 lead after
The Lady Blue Devils invited the one inning. With a single, triple, and a
Lady Bobcats to their home field on Sat- home run, Licking Valley blew their lead
urday. Cambridge was quick to grab the up to 9 – 0 at the end of the 2nd. By the
upper hand as they used a double and bottom of the 3rd inning, the Panthers
a few errors to take a 5 – 0 lead in the had amassed a score of 14 – 0 against
top of the 1st inning. With a double and Zanesville. Cyaria Wallace hit a single in
two singles in the top of the 2nd inning, the inning to drive in Amari Sumani for
the Bobcats were out to an 8 – 0 lead. Zanesville’s first run of the game. Unfor-
Neither team was able to post a run in tunately, they couldn’t pull together a
the 3rd inning, but the top of the 4th saw rally, and the Panthers kept pushing for-
Harper double, followed by a single from ward, taking a win with the final score of
Smith to end the inning up 11 – 0. Cam- 19 – 1.