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The Lil’ Muskies baseball Philo Baseball ends

team wrapped up their postseason run as Division IV

season in Gnadenhutten Sectional Champs

BY MATTHEW DOTSON | THE BUZZ BY MATTHEW DOTSON | THE BUZZ

Cooper Roush grabs a run for the Electrics. Matthew Dotson | FILE PHOTO

Vs. Edison (5/27) the inning to win 6 – 5, and end the
In Richmond on Wednesday, the Electrics playoff run.
Electrics went up against the Wild-
cats in the Division IV District Semi- Vs. Maysville (5/21)
final. Edison was the first to hit the Philo hosted the Maysville Pan-
scoreboard with two runs in the bot- thers on Thursday in Duncan Falls.
tom of the first inning, 2 – 0. Philo The Electrics struck first with a run in
bounced back in the top of the third the bottom of the first inning to lead
inning with one run and in the fourth 1 – 0, and backed it up with another
with the tying run, 2 – 2. Both teams run in the bottom of the second, 2 –
continued to battle through the in- 0. The Panthers nabbed a run in the
nings without another score until top of the third inning to keep from
Philo tacked on three runs in the top a shutout, but that was the only run
of the ninth inning, 5 – 2. Answered the Electrics allowed them as the
quickly with three matching runs by home team tacked on a run in the
the Wildcats, 5 – 5, to send the game fourth and two more in the fifth to
into extra innings. The game contin- take the game 5 – 1 after six and a
ued on to the 11th inning without a half innings, giving Philo the Division
Lil’ Muskies Rocco Sabino smacks a pitch foul. Matthew Dotson | FILE PHOTO break in the scoring until the Wild- IV Region 15 Sectional Title.
cats grabbed a run in the bottom of
Vs. Indian Valley (5/27) their total, the Colts lit up the board
The Lil’ Muskies traveled to for three runs, but that was the end
Gnadenhutten on Wednesday to of their scoring for the game, and the
play the Braves on their home field Lil’ Muskies took the Division IV East
for a chance to move on in the post- 1 Sectional Title with a 13 – 3 victo-
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