Boles, Jay offense tops Wes-Del

Wes-Del scored one run in the top of the first inning.
Larissa Boles shut it down the rest of the game.
The Jay County High School junior struck out a career-high 15 batters in a 10-1 win Friday over the visiting Warriors.
The Patriots (19-1) scored one run in the third inning and added a half dozen more in the fourth to put the game out of reach. They scored three more in the sixth for the lopsided win, in which they racked up 17 hits.
Chelsea Tighe and Catherine Dunn led the Patriot offense with three hits apiece. Dunn drove in two runs, and Tighe had a double. Katlin Petro and Gabby Hart drove in a pair of runs and had two doubles each. Katie Aker and Chloe Steigerwalt added two hits and an RBI.
Boles had two hits, including a double, and two RBIs to help her own cause.

Tribe tops Flyers
FORT RECOVERY — Riding the momentum from its sectional championship blowout of Lincolnview on Wednesday, the Fort Recovery baseball team continued its winning ways on Friday.
With the score knotted at three, Elijah Kahlig ripped a double off the left-field fence, and Blake Boughman followed with a double of his own to give the Indians a 4-3 victory over the Marion Local Flyers.
Fort Recovery (17-4, 5-3 Midwest Athletic Conference) opened the scoring in the game’s first inning.
Kyle Schroer connected for one of his two hits on the day, driving in Mitch Stammen, who reached on a single and then swiped second base to get into scoring position.
The Flyers took the lead in the fifth inning with a trio of runs, but their lead didn’t last long as the Indians plated a pair in the home half of the frame to tie the score.
As part of the two-run fifth, Stammen again swiped second base to give him 25 thefts for the season and tie Dale Griesinger’s single-season record.

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 Kahlig started on the bump for the Indians and got the no decision. He gave up three runs — one earned — on four hits while striking out four and walking two. Jackson Hobbs got the win in two innings of relief.

Four earn All-MAC
FORT RECOVERY — A quartet of Fort Recovery baseball players earned first-team all-conference honors.
Seniors Blake Boughman (catcher) and Elijah Kahlig (outfield), junior Mitch Stammen (outfield) and sophomore pitcher Jackson Hobbs were all named to the All-Midwest Athletic Conference first team on Friday.
The four led the Indians to a sectional championship Wednesday, the schools first title since 2008.
Earning second-team selections were Kent Retz (pitcher) and Cole Wendel (second base). Derek Backs, Jacob Muhlenkamp and Kyle Schroer were all given honorable mention.

Woodlan dims Stars
WOODBURN — The South Adams softball team committed seven errors, which led to 13 unearned runs in a 14-1 loss in five innings to the host Woodlan Warriors.
After the Starfires scored two runs in the game’s first inning, Woodlan took over with eight runs in the second and six in the third.
Keirstyn Grimm led the Starfires with a pair of singles. Alyssa Bluhm smacked a triple, Maddie Morgan had a double and Katelin Augsburger added a single.
Ashleigh Freeman, Grimm and Augsburger each had an RBI for South Adams.
 Augsburger took the loss, allowing six hits while striking out four.
JV Patriots fall
OSSIAN — The Norwell junior varsity softball team scored a run in every inning except one.
Jay County only managed one run total.
Gabby Lowrance went 1-for-2 with the only Patriot hit, and Miranda Hibbard scored the lone run for Jay County in an 11-1 loss Friday to the host Knights.
Norwell scored two runs in each of the first, third and fourth innings, and added one more in the fifth to nab a 7-0 lead.
Jay County finally broke through with a run in the sixth, but by then it was too late.
The Knights scored four more runs in the home half of the sixth inning to complete the victory.
Aleah Barrett took the loss pitching for the Patriots. She struck out three and walked three.[[In-content Ad]]