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Today is Wednesday, May 7| The 128th day of 2008
Daily Chief-Union/Brandon Drake
Out at the plate
Riverdale catcher Ashley Naus covers home plate to record a force out in Tuesday’s game against Bluffton. With Kaylee Sheets on the mound, the Falcons rolled to a 4-0 win.
Falcons take 3rd win in a row
MOUNT BLANCHARD — Riverdale pitcher Kaylee Sheets fired a five-hit shutout Tuesday, leading the Falcons to their third straight victory, 4-0, against Bluffton.
Sheets (6-3) now has won four of her last five decisions.
The Falcons (9-7) scored once each in the second and fourth innings and twice in the sixth inning.
Allysha Wells led the way at the plate, hitting a single and a pair of doubles and driving in a run. Ashley Naus doubled home a run, Chelsea Dilley had an RBI single and Kelli Kotterman doubled.
For the Pirates (11-6), Chelsea Wheeler led the way with a double and a single. Andrea Hines had a pair of singles.
Hines took the pitching loss.
(Refer to page 6 of today's Daily Chief-Union)
Daily Chief-Union/Brandon Drake
Fire away
Riverdale’s Sam Moore fires a pitch from the mound in Tuesday’s game against Bluffton. Moore was the losing pitcher in the Falcons’ 10-3 loss to the Pirates.
Bluffton’s Suderman stops Riverdale
MOUNT BLANCHARD — Bluffton’s Matthew Suderman was on top of his game Tuesday, leading the Pirates to a 10-3 non-conference victory against Riverdale.
Suderman (3-2) was the winning pitcher and also had a single, a double and four RBIs.
Bluffton (4-11) scored once in the second inning and three times in the third inning before Riverdale (6-10) closed the gap with a three-run fourth inning. But the Pirates put two more runs on the board in the fifth inning and four more in the sixth inning to pull away.
Derek Rose and James Adamec each had a pair of singles for the Falcons (6-10).
Sam Moore (0-2) was the losing pitcher. Bluffton finished with 10 hits.
Clay Wannemacher had a double, single and two RBIs for Bluffton, and Nathan Cheney singled three times and drove in a pair of runs.
(Refer to page 6 of today's Daily Chief-Union)
TUESDAY MAY 6, 2008
Lift off
Riverdale's Steven Rahn clears a bar in the high jump at the Hardin County Track Meet. Rahn won the event by clearing 5-8, helping the Falcons to a second-place team finish.
Falcons show strong in Kenton Relays
KENTON - Riverdale's track and field team had a strong showing at the Hardin County Track Meet on Monday afternoon.
The Falcons' girls cruised to a team title with 183 points. Ridgemont (98) took second, and Kenton (96) finished third in the six-team field. The Wildcats edged out a 169-112.83 team title over Riverdale in the boys competition.
Kayla Brown and Brook Bushong both won a pair of events to lead the Falcons. Brown won the 100 hurdles (16.4) and 300 hurdles (45.3), while Bushong was first in the shot put (33-11.5) and discus (110-1).
Riverdale swept all four relay events, winning the 400 in 54.2, 800 in 1:51.1, 1600 in 4:08.2 and 3200 in 10:41.8.
Kourtney Lewis also had an individual first-place finish in the 800 run (2:36.7).
(Refer to page 6 of today's Daily Chief-Union)
In the glove
Carey's Courtney Holsinger scoops up a ground ball in Monday's game against Mohawk. The Warriors ended up edging out a 1-0 victory against the Blue Devils.
Messersmith home run keeps Warriors in race for MAL title
By LONNIE McMILLAN
Sports editor
SYCAMORE - As tight as the Midland Athletic League softball race has been this year, it should not be surprising that one hit was the difference between rivals Mohawk and Carey on Monday.
Mohawk's Jackie Messersmith pitched a no-hitter and delivered the only hit of the game against Carey pitcher Autumn Harley - a two-out solo home run in the sixth inning - to lead the Warriors to a 1-0 victory.
The win keeps Mohawk (13-6, 7-2 MAL) in contention for its seventh straight Midland Athletic League title. It leaves a slew of teams trailing Fostoria St. Wendelin (7-1 MAL) by one game in the loss column, including the Blue Devils (13-6, 5-2 MAL), New Riegel (6-2 MAL) and North Baltimore (5-2 MAL). Hopewell-Loudon (5-3 MAL) could have made the race even tighter, but it dropped a 7-4 decision to St. Wendelin on Monday.
(Refer to page 6 of today's Daily Chief-Union)
On the mark
Mohawk's Adam Hohman delivers a pitch in Monday's game against Carey. Hohman fanned 15 batters as the Warriors shut out the Blue Devils, 5-0.
Warriors' Hohman strikes out 15 Blue Devils
By LONNIE McMILLAN
Sports editor
SYCAMORE - Mohawk pitcher Adam Hohman more than made up for six walks by striking out 15 in a two-hit 5-0 shutout of Carey on Monday.
Carey was able to put runners on base, but those runners had little chance of advancing with the ball seldom being put in play by the Blue Devils.
"Adam pitched a good game," Mohawk coach Eric Hoover said. "He walked too many, but I think they only had two hits, so I'm pretty happy with that. He was able to get a lot of strikeouts so I guess that made up for most of the walks."
(Refer to page 6 of today's Daily Chief-Union)