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John Glenn lax take down the Indians as season progresses
BY MATTHEW DOTSON | THE BUZZ
Gavin Kaiser runs with the ball for the Lil’ Muskies Lacrosse.
Vs. Linsly School (4/16) day to play the Bulldogs at 6 PM.
John Glenn Lil’ Muskies lacrosse team
hosted players from Linsly School on Vs. Bexley (4/14)
Thursday at Turf Field on the Muskingum The Lions traveled to New Concord
University Campus at 7 PM. In a tough on Tuesday, where they dominated Turf
battle, the Lil’ Muskies fell short of the Field as they blew past John Glenn 19 –
Cadets, who took the match 5 – 3. 3.
John Glenn heads to Newark on Tues-
Bishops baseball adds two wins to rise to 5 – 3 as they look
forward to Grove City challenge at Gant
Bishop’s Jacobie Balo crossed home plate for a run. Matthew Dotson
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Vs. Canal Winchester (4/11) Vs. Columbus Academy (4/7)
John Glenn commanded the field The Vikings held the line on Tues-
against the Indians on Saturday as Ca- day as the Lil’ Muskies tried to break
nal Winchester couldn’t keep up with through, but Columbus Academy guided
the Lil’ Muskies, who took the 7 – 1 vic- the scoring with an 8 – 1 win.
tory.
BY MATTHEW DOTSON | THE BUZZ
Vs. Reynoldsburg (4/16) made one run in the top of the third in-
On Thursday evening in Reynolds- ning before getting shut down. Harvest
burg, the Bishops were hoping to prove Prep’s pitching fell apart in the bottom
themselves against the Raiders as they of the third inning as they gave up 13
opened the scoring with C. Grandstaff to runs through singles, doubles, and sev-
take a 1 – 0 lead. The Raiders answered eral forced runs from walks to give the
back in the bottom of the inning with Bishops a 22 – 1 advantage that they
two runs to flip the lead to their side 2 – held until the game ended in a mercy
1. The Bishops wouldn’t let that be, and ruling in the fifth inning.
in the top of the second, they rallied with
back-to-back doubles from Grandstaff Vs. Fisher Catholic (4/10)
and Bernath to lead 5 – 2. The Bishops. On the road in Lancaster on Friday, the
The Raiders tied up the game in the Bishops jumped out to a 1 – 0 lead in
bottom of the inning with three runs, the first inning and then slowly built that
making the score 5 – 5. After the third lead to 3 – 0 by the end of the fifth in-
inning went down without a score, the ning, adding four more runs by the top
Bishop’s Haiden Omen singled into left of the seventh. The Irish gathered three
field to bring home Jacobie Balo for a 6 – runs in the bottom of the inning, but it
5 lead, but they couldn’t hold it for long, was not enough to catch the Bishops,
when the Raiders stepped up to produce who won the game 7 – 3 on ten hits and
two runs with a sacrifice and a single to an error.
jump back in front 7 – 6 at the end of
the fourth. Reynoldsburg bumped their
score up one more run in the bottom FOLLOW THE BUZZ
of the fifth, and the Bishops answered
back with one run, but that was the end @DRESDENBUZZ
of the scoring for Rosecrans. The Raid-
ers rallied in the bottom of the sixth for
six runs to win the matchup 14 – 7.
The Bishops will be back at Gant Sta-
dium Monday, April 20th, against Grove
City Christian, with the game set to start
at 5:15 PM.
Vs. Harvest Prep (4/13)
Zanesville hosted the Harvest Prep
Warriors on Monday at Gant Stadium.
The Bishops held the Warriors scoreless BUZZ FACTS
in the first inning while scoring a run Over the past 8 years the newspaper
by Nick Bernath on an error to lead the rack that holds The Buzz at Kroger has
game 1 – 0 right out of the gate. After had to be switched out three times to
a quick top of the second with Harvest meet the demand. The current rack
Prep, Rosecrans still had the lead and gets filled with 400 papers three times
continued to crack out seven singles to each paper cycle, that’s 1,200 papers!
put eight more runs on the board for a
commanding 9 – 0 lead. The Warriors