Gutierrez leads with seven goals

The Rockets gave up 16 runs over the weekend. They walked away with four victories.

The Portland Rockets swept the Fort Wayne Devils and Fort Wayne Jackers on Saturday and Sunday.

The Rockets (12-3) took down the Devils 13-3 in the first game and 4-3 in the second.

Crosby Heniser led the way in the first game with four RBIs on two hits. Garrison Brege went the distance for the win.

Portland needed nine innings to win game No. 2 before Corban White delivered the walk-off single to center field. Heniser picked up the win with two innings pitched.

The Rockets beat the Jackers 10-2 and 9-8.

Owen Wanner picked up the first victory with six strikeouts over five innings pitched.

Heniser delivered a walk-off hit single in the seventh inning to top the Jackers in game two. Jonny Heitkamp also provided an offensive spark with three RBIs on a trio of hits.

Errors hurt

MINSTER, Ohio — Fort Recovery’s ACME baseball team fell to the Minster Wildcats 6-2 on Saturday.

Caden Homan suffered the loss after going the distance on the mound. He gave up three runs, one of which was earned, in the first inning and three more in the fifth.

Reece Wendel and Dylan Klenke drove in a run apiece for Fort Recovery  (4-2) on doubles. Klenke’s double came in the third frame to push Wendel across the plate. Wendel smacked his RBI double after Drew Evers led off the fifth inning with his own two-bagger.

Local 1620 wins

Local 1620 finished off the regular season in Portland Junior League Sandy Koufax baseball with an 8-6 victory over Portland Optimist on Friday.

Caison Lloyd collected the most hits for Local 1620 with a double and two singles. An Alex Huntsman home run earned him a team-high three RBIs.

Grant Fenning pitched the first two innings and struck out five batters, while Spencer Smitley finished off the game and sent four batters back to the dugout on strikes.

Rayden Solar and Varen Ridgeway both went 2-for-2 at the plate for Portland Optimist with an RBI. Solar had two doubles.

Local wins

PENNVILLE — Williams Gutierrez provided more than enough offense.

His team barely needed it.

Gutierrez led all scorers in Saturday’s Pennville Soccer League action, scoring seven times to lead the Ohio Valley Gas Meteors to victories of 8-1 over AgBest Express Rockets and 9-0 over the WPGW Asteroids.

Camden Vinson scored four times to lead the Vinson Rental Properties Dragons to a 7-1 win over the General Store Griffins.

In the Stinger division, Tessa Coleman’s three goals paced a 7-4 win for the Ernst Concrete Bees over the A Place to Grow Wasps. (Sebastian Benavidez had three goals in the loss for the Wasps.)

Lyle Beiswanger, Colton Coons and Colten Hermann each scored two goals to power the New Beginnings Holiness Church Cougars to a 6-3 win over the Edward Jones Cheetahs.