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Bobb, George co-players of the year

05/11/04

Two seniors with impeccable statistical credentials -- Drew Bobb of Paint Valley and Jam George of Zane Trace -- share player of the year honors in Scioto Valley Conference 2003-04 baseball.

Bobb -- who batted .450 for his four-year prep career with 129 runs batted in and 23 homeruns -- batted .680 this season. That is the fourth best all-time, single-season batting average by an Ohio prep, according to records compiled by the Ohio High School Athletic Association.

The three-sport Bearcat standout finished the regular season with three doubles, six triples and five homeruns for a gaudy 1.280 slugging percentage. He compiled a .734 on base percentage and drove in 29 runs.

He was 2-3 on the mound with a 1.77 ERA and 38 strikeouts in 28 innings.

George posted sensational power numbers with 13 doubles, one triple and 10 homeruns for a 1.092 slugging percentage. He batted .575 with an on base percentage of .627 and drove in 50 runs in leading the Pioneers to an undefeated SVC season and a 24-2 regular season mark.

He was 5-0 on the mound for coach Ron Allen, named the league's 2003-04 coach of the year.

Scioto Valley Conference

all-league baseball team

2003-04

Co-players of the year: Drew Bobb, Paint Valley; Jam George, Zane Trace.

Coach of the year: Ron Allen, Zane Trace.

First team

Player School Year

Adam Long Adena 12

Isaac Weiderman Huntington 12

Drew Bobb Paint Valley 12

Chris Trainer Unioto 12

Joe Morris Westfall 10

Cam Wiley Zane Trace 12

Jam George Zane Trace 12

Trey Baker Zane Trace 12

Lee Fausnaugh Westfall 11

Second team

David Loel Adena 11

Joe Jaskowiak Adena 11

Aarron Hopkins Huntington 12

Justin Osborn Piketon 11

Jesse Johnson Southeastern 10

Jeromy Detty Southeastern 11

Koby Doughty Unioto 11

Corey White Unioto 10

Cody Lawhorn Zane Trace 10

Honorable mention

Brian Grigsby Adena

Adam Zurmehly Adena

Aaron Chaney Huntington

J. D. Cooper Huntington

Zac McFadden Paint Valley

Cory Merkamp Paint Valley

Kyle Vulgamore Piketon

Zac Mays Piketon

Josh Cooper Southeastern

Zach Hoylman Southeastern

Andy Russell Unioto

Steve Pflug Unioto

Bobby Horney Westfall

Ryan Rogers Westfall

Zach Lawhorn Zane Trace

Zach Roll Zane Trace

Zane Trace sweeps Logan Elm
05/08/04

Zane Trace's Scioto Valley Conference champions hammered six home runs to sweep Logan Elm 11-1 and 16-5 in a pair non-conference baseball games Saturday.

The Pioneers needed just five innings in each game to push their overall record to 24-2.

Huntington and Unioto split doubleheaders, the Huntsmen losing to Jackson 1-0 in eight innings and dealing Grandview Heights an 11-5 setback. Unioto was shut out 4-0 by Bishop Ready, but bounced back for a 17-11 win over Worthington Christian.

Zane Trace 11-16, Logan Elm 1-5

Freshman Justin Shiflett tossed a four-hitter in the opener and Jam George, Cam Wiley and Chris Davis drove in two runs apiece as Zane Trace broke the game open with four runs in both the second and third innings. Davis belted a two-run homer in the third inning.

Trey Baker and George contributed three hits each in a 12-hit barrage with Wiley, Davis and Ben Haynes collecting two hits apiece. Baker scored four runs and George finished with two doubles and Wiley one.

In the second game, the Pioneers smashed five round-trippers -- Zach Roll a solo shot in the first inning and a two-run blast in the fourth, George a two-run shot in the second inning and a three-run blow in the third and Zach Lawhorn a solo in the fourth.

George has 10 dingers for the season and Roll five.

Cody Lawhorn pitched the fourth and fifth innings in relief of George to notch his seventh straight win.

Zach Lawhorn went 3-for-3 with a double in addition to his homer and senior Josh Fisher belted two hits and scored twice.

R H E

Logan Elm 0 0 0 0 1 -- 1 4 5

Zane Trace 1 4 4 0 2 -- 11 12 0

WP -- Justin Shiflett (3-1)

R H E

Logan Elm 1 0 4 0 0 -- 5 3 2

Zane Trace 1 7 3 5 x -- 16 15 6

WP -- Cody Lawhorn (7-0)

Jackson 1, Huntington 0 (8 innings)

Jackson bunched three of its six hits into the eighth inning to score the winning run with one out to ruin a pitching gem by Huntington junior Cody Vinings.

Huntington missed a golden opportunity to score in the sixth when Isaac Weiderman singled into the hole between short and third with runners at first and second. The Jackson shortstop flagged down the hit in short left field, holding the potential winning run at third base.

The next Huntington batter was retired with the bases full.

Vinings had two of Huntington's four hits.

R H E

Huntington 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 -- 0 4 1

Jackson 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 -- 1 6 0

LP -- Cody Vinings (1-4)

Huntington 11, Grandview Heights 5

Huntington sent seven runners across the plate in the third inning with the help of a bases-loaded error that let all three runners score.

The Huntsmen (11-13) took a 1-0 lead in the first inning and expanded that to 3-0 on Casey Kellough's two-run single in the third. Drew Fultz drove in one run in the third inning as Huntington's lead grew to 10-0.

Aaron Chaney relieved starter J. D. Cooper in the fourth inning to earn the victory. Chaney also had two singles and scored two runs and Weiderman doubled and singled and drove in a run.

R H E

Grandview Heights 0 0 2 3 0 0 0 -- 5 3 3

Huntington 1 2 7 0 1 0 x -- 11 8 3

WP -- Aaron Chaney (3-2)

Bishop Ready 4, Unioto 0

Sophomore Jeremy Brown took the loss despite giving up just four hits.

Corey Cottrell doubled for the Shermans, who also were limited to four hits.

R H E

Unioto 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 -- 0 4 1

Bishop Ready 0 0 0 2 2 0 x -- 4 4 0

LP -- Jeremy Brown (2-3)

Unioto 17, Worthington Christian 11

Steve Pflug ignited an eight-run explosion in the sixth inning with a solo homerun and pitched two and a third innings of relief to pick up the victory on the mound.

The Shermans (16-9) entered the sixth inning trailing 10-8 before the flood gates opened with Pflug singling in his second trip to the plate in the inning. Jason Depugh, Alex Smith, Andy Russell, Koby Doughty and Chris Trainer also had singles in the inning.

Unioto pounded out a season-high 20 hits with Doughty and Trainer collecting four each, including a double by Trainer. Smith, Pflug, Depugh and Russell all had two hits apiece, including a double by Smith.

R H E

Unioto 1 4 3 0 0 8 1 -- 17 20 4

Worthington Christian 2 3 0 1 4 1 0 -- 11 13 4

WP -- Steve Pflug

Huntington blanks Piketon 6-0
05/07/04

Aarron Hopkins and Aaron Chaney belted two-run homeruns to back the four-hit pitching of Isaac Weiderman as Huntington blanked Piketon 6-0 in a Scioto Valley Conference baseball finale Friday night.

Westfall scored five runs in both the fifth and sixth innings to defeat Miami Trace 15-3 in six innings in a non-conference outing.

Huntington 6, Piketon 0

Weiderman fanned 12 Redstreak batters to give the Huntington senior 59 strikeouts in 40 innings this season in fashioning an 0.87 earned run average.

Hopkins belted his homerun in the second inning and Chaney's round-tripper came in a three-run fifth inning.

J. D. Cooper had a pair of doubles for the Huntsmen (10-12, 6-8).

R H E

Huntington 0 0 2 0 3 0 1 -- 6 6 0

Piketon 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 -- 0 4 2

WP -- Isaac Weiderman

Westfall 15, Miami Trace 3 (6 innings)

Joe Morris worked the first three innings for the Mustangs (11-8) and Lee Fausnaugh the final three to pick up the victory. Fausnaugh allowed just one run on two hits and struck out five.

Morris starred at the plate with five runs batted in on a 5-for-5 night that included two triples and a double. His two-out, bases-loaded triple highlighted the fifth inning.

Bobby Horney, Ryan Rogers, Drew Shaw and Wade Bartholomew all had two hits apiece for Westfall, which outhit Miami Trace 16-6. Horney also had two triples and Shaw drove in three runs.

R H E

Westfall 1 0 3 1 5 5 -- 15 16 0

Miami Trace 1 0 1 1 0 0 -- 3 6 4

WP -- Lee Fausnaugh (5-2)

Zane Trace wins gold baseball
05/06/04

Zane Trace defeated Westfall 10-6 Thursday evening to wrap up the Pioneers' second Scioto Valley Conference baseball title in three years and claim a gold baseball emblematic of an unbeaten league season.

Zane Trace won the league in 2002, its first SVC baseball title since entering the SVC in 1971.

In a non-league game Thursday evening, Portsmouth downed Adena 11-7.

Zane Trace 10, Westfall 6

Chris Davis and Ben Haynes ignited the Pioneer offense with one-out, back-to-back homers in a nine-run second inning, capped by a run-scoring single by Davis and Haynes' RBI double.

In between, three Westfall errors, a single by Trey Baker, a two-run double by Jam George and Cody Lawhorn's run-scoring double provided enough cushion that Zane Trace (22-2, 14-0) could withstand a four-run seventh by the Mustangs (10-8, 8-6).

Cam Wiley picked up his eighth straight victory, pitching into the seventh before needing help from a trio of relievers. Eddie Skaggs followed Wiley to the mound, but was tagged for a three-run homer by Lee Fausnaugh.

That brought on freshman Justin Shiflett, who then gave way to Cody Lawhorn with two out and runners aboard at first and second. Lawhorn induced the only batter he faced into hitting a grounder to short for the final out of the game and a save.

Fausnaugh and Joe Morris had two hits apiece for Westfall and Wade Bartholomew a double.

Davis banged out three hits to lead the Pioneers while George, Zach Lawhorn and Davis had two hits apiece. George had two doubles and Zach Lawhorn, Haynes and Cody Lawhorn one each.

R H E

Westfall 0 0 2 0 0 0 4 -- 6 7 3

Zane Trace 0 9 0 0 0 1 x -- 10 12 0

WP -- Cam Wiley (8-0); LP -- Nick Clark; Save -- Cody Lawhorn.

Portsmouth 11, Adena 5

Portsmouth broke the game open with a four-run sixth inning after L. C. Guthrie's two-run homer in the top of the inning had pulled Adena within 7-5.

Warrior starter Joe Jaskowiak was tagged for four runs in the first inning and exited in a two-run second in favor of freshman Clint Roush, who shut down the Trojans until the sixth. Roush also belted a two-run double in a three-run second inning for Adena (7-16).

Roush and Brian Grigsby collected two hits each and John Knauff a double as Portsmouth outhit the Warriors 13-7.

R H E

Adena 0 3 0 0 0 2 0 -- 5 7 3

Portsmouth 4 2 1 0 0 4 x -- 11 13 1

WP -- Payne; LP -- Joe Jaskowiak

Zane Trace nears gold baseball
05/05/04

Zane Trace moved within a game of an undefeated Scioto Valley Conference baseball season with a 10-1 win at Huntington Wednesday evening behind the four-hit pitching of sophomore Cody Lawhorn.

The Pioneers (21-2, 13-0) host Westfall Thursday in a makeup game -- the final SVC game of the season for both teams.

A Zane Trace win would mean a gold baseball -- emblematic of an unbeaten league season -- for coach Ron Allen's Pioneers.

In non-conference games Wednesday, Unioto defeated Hillsboro 7-5, Southeastern tripped Wellston 10-7 and Adena ended Whiteoak's 10-game winning streak 10-2.

Zane Trace 10, Huntington 1

Zane Trace packed all of its scoring into the first three innings with Jam George delivering a two-run single in a four-run first and Cam Wiley belting a two-run homer -- his eighth of the season -- in the second.

Trey Baker, Zach Roll, George, Wiley and Zach Lawhorn all had two hits apiece in a 13-hit offense for the Pioneers, who took advantage of four Huntington errors.

Baker scored three runs and George drove in a trio -- giving him 41 runs batted in for the season. George and Roll both had doubles.

Isaac Weiderman doubled and singled for the Huntsmen (9-12, 5-8) and scored his team's only run.

R H E

Zane Trace 4 3 3 0 0 0 0 -- 10 13 2

Huntington 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 -- 1 4 4

WP -- Cody Lawhorn (6-0); LP -- Aaron Chaney

Unioto 7, Hillsboro 5

Steve Pflug's two-run single tied the game 5-5 and the winning runs crossed the plate on a two-out, infield pop fly that was muffed by the Indians with the bases loaded.

All that came in a five-run fourth inning as the Shermans (15-8) overcame a 5-2 deficit.

Pflug finished with a double and a single and Jason Depugh and Alex Smith had two hits each and Corey Cottrell a double.

Corey White notched his sixth win in seven decisions -- fanning 11 and walking five.

R H E

Unioto 1 0 1 5 0 0 0 -- 7 11 0

Hillsboro 0 3 2 0 0 0 0 -- 5 8 1

WP -- Corey White (6-1)

Southeastern 10, Wellston 7

Southeastern sent six runs across the plate in the fifth inning to overcome a 5-4 deficit with Zach Hoylman belting a three-run double and freshman Zach Welch knocking in two runs with a two-out single.

Jeromy Detty had three hits for the Panthers (8-12) and Josh Cooper, Hoylman and Welch two apiece. Hoylman -- who smacked a solo homerun in the first inning -- drove in four runs and Cooper and Welch two each.

Detty doubled and scored three runs.

Shannon Kohn picked up the win with two innings of relief and Cooper notched a save with a scoreless seventh.

R H E

Southeastern 2 0 2 0 6 0 0 -- 10 9 2

Wellston 1 1 1 2 2 0 0 -- 7 9 5

WP -- Shannon Kohn (1-2)

Adena 10, Whiteoak 2

John Knauff led off the sixth inning with his first varsity homerun to ignite a five-run outburst and give Adena a 10-0 cushion.

Brian Grigsby singled home another run and Adam Long drove in two with a two-out single. Long drove in four runs with a pair of two-out two-run singles in the fifth and sixth innings.

David Loel clubbed a two-run homer in the first inning to jump start the Warrior offense as eight players contributed to a 10-hit attack. Included were the homeruns by Knauff and Loel and a pair of doubles by Dylon Givens, who scored four runs.

Loel earned the mound decision -- holding Whiteoak to two hits through the first five innings.

R H E

Adena 2 0 1 0 2 5 0 -- 10 10 3

Whiteoak 0 0 0 0 0 2 0 -- 2 5 1

WP -- David Loel; LP -- Bishop

Piketon, Paint Valley pull off upsets
05/04/04

Piketon and Paint Valley pulled off a pair of stunning wins in Scioto Valley Conference makeup baseball games Tuesday evening as the Redstreaks shocked Westfall 4-3 and Paint Valley surprised Adena 3-2.

Piketon (3-15, 3-10) and Paint Valley (5-13, 5-9) had been unable to break out of the bottom two rungs of the conference standings. Piketon's previous two wins were the result of forfeits from Adena for using in ineligible player.

Unioto (14-8, 10-4) escaped the upset bug with a 7-1 win at Southeastern.

Piketon 4, Westfall 3

Piketon -- without a hit through five innings and trailing 1-0 -- erupted for four runs in the bottom of the sixth with the help of a critical Mustang error and its only three hits of the game.

Kyle Vulagmore lined out to open the inning and Ben Thompson drew a walk, moved to second on a wild pitch and scored on a throwing error to tie the game.

Caleb Acord followed with a run-scoring double and Zach Mays doubled home Acord. Mays scored on a single by Blake Osborne.

Westfall (10-7, 8-5) scored two runs in the top of the seventh, but was unable to complete the comeback as Mays picked up his first win of the season on the mound.

R H E

Westfall 0 0 0 1 0 0 2 -- 3 5 3

Piketon 0 0 0 0 0 4 x -- 4 3 2

WP -- Zach Mays; LP -- Ryan Rogers (1-1)

Paint Valley 3, Adena 2

Josh Maynard drove in two runs in the third inning with a single to put Paint Valley ahead and singled to start the bottom of the sixth as the Bearcats scored what turned out to be the winning run.

After Mays started the Paint Valley sixth with his single, he was sacrificed to second by winning pitcher Corey Merkamp and scored on Aaron Medved's single.

David Loel was 2-for-3 for Adena (6-15, 5-9) with a double and scored one of the Warriors' two runs.

Merkamp -- who pitched six innings Monday in a loss to Southeastern -- went the first four innings against the Warriors to get his second victory of the campaign. Jamie Hughes pitched the final three innings for a save.

R H E

Adena 0 0 0 1 0 0 1 -- 2 6 1

Paint Valley 0 0 2 0 0 1 x -- 3 5 0

WP -- Corey Merkamp (2-3); LP -- Adam Zurmehly

Unioto 7, Southeastern 1

Jason Depugh homered to ignite a five-run third inning and Corey Cottrell added a three-run double in the inning and drove in an insurance run in the seventh inning with a single.

Cottrell was one of four Shermans to collect two hits -- joining Koby Doughty, Alex Smith and Andy Russell.

Jesse Johnson doubled and singled for two of Southeastern's four hits.

Chris Trainer pitched the first four innings for the win with Jeremy Brown blanking the Panthers (7-12, 5-9) over the final three frames.

R H E

Unioto 0 0 5 1 0 0 1 -- 7 9 0

Southeastern 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 -- 1 4 1

WP -- Chris Trainer; LP -- Zach Hoylman

Pioneers claim outright SVC title
05/03/04

Zane Trace needed just five innings to wrap up its second Scioto Valley Conference baseball championship in school history with a 12-2 rout of Piketon Monday evening.

Coach Ron Allen's Pioneers -- who won the school's first SVC baseball title in 2002 -- lead Westfall and Unioto by four games in the loss column with just two league games remaining.

Westfall lost 11-3 at Adena, Unioto was a 13-0 winner in six innings at Huntington and Southeastern edged Paint Valley 5-4 to round out league action Monday evening.

Zane Trace 12, Piketon 2 (5 innings)

"I'm just happy for the kids," says Allen, whose teams have won 20 games in three of the past four seasons, "especially our seniors."

The Pioneers (20-2, 12-0) struck for five runs in the second inning after Piketon (2-15, 2-10) had taken a 2-0 lead in the bottom of the first. A two-run single by freshman Justin Shiflett and Jam George's two-run double highlighted the Zane Trace second.

Cam Wiley's seventh homer of the season -- a two-run shot -- highlighted a three-run fourth and Zane Trace invoked the 10-run rule with another three in the fifth.

George got the mound decision -- his fifth -- on a three-hitter with five strikeouts and three walks.

Six players had two hits apiece in the Pioneers' 13-hit offense -- Trey Baker, Zach Roll, George, Wiley, Cody Lawhorn and Shiflett. Shiflett, George and Wiley drove in three runs apiece and Baker, Roll, George and Lawhorn all had doubles.

R H E

Zane Trace 0 5 1 3 3 -- 12 13 2

Piketon 2 0 0 0 0 -- 2 3 3

WP -- Jam George (5-0); Jonathon Buckler

Adena 11, Westfall 3

The Warriors scored eight runs in a bizarre sixth inning to break out of a 3-3 tie and end Westfall's slim hopes of sharing in the league championship.

Three of the runs in the Adena sixth were forced home when the Mustangs' Lee Fausnaugh hit three batters with the bases loaded.

That made a winner of Adam Long, who relieved starter Joe Jaskowiak in the third inning after Westfall had taken a 3-0 lead. Long shut down the Mustangs (10-6, 8-4) on just two hits over the last five innings.

Jaskowiak and John Knauff had two hits each for Adena (6-14, 5-8) and Long and Clint Roush doubled. Knauff drove in three runs.

Freshman Nick Clark had two of Westfall's five hits.

R H E

Westfall 2 1 0 0 0 0 0 -- 3 5 2

Adena 0 1 0 1 1 8 x -- 11 10 1

WP -- Adam Long; LP -- Lee Fausnaugh

Unioto 13, Huntington 0 (6 innings)

The Shermans' Corey Cottrell faced just 21 batters in tossing a four-hitter at the Huntsmen, who led off the first, second and fourth innings with singles.

Each runner, however, was wiped out in a 6-4-3 double play.

Unioto (13-8, 9-4) opened with four runs in the first inning -- highlighted by a two-run double by Corey White and Jason Depugh's run-scoring single -- and finished off the Huntsmen (9-11, 5-7) with a six-run sixth.

White, Depugh and Corbin Wrights had two hits apiece for the Shermans, who took advantage of six Huntington errors. White had two doubles and drove in four runs.

R H E

Unioto 4 0 0 3 0 6 -- 13 8 2

Huntington 0 0 0 0 0 0 -- 0 4 6

WP -- Corey Cottrell; LP -- Cody Vinings

Southeastern 5, Paint Valley 4

Paint Valley scored three runs in the top of the seventh inning on a single by Aaron Medved and successive Southeastern errors to take a 4-2 lead.

The Panthers (7-10, 5-8) answered with three in the bottom of the inning with the winning run scoring on a passed ball with Josh Cooper at bat. Chris Junk's double and a single by Matt Skaggs started the rally with one out.

Zach Hoylman -- who got the final out in the top of the seventh -- got the mound victory in relief of starter Shannon Kohn and Drew Bobb was tagged with the loss after relieving starter Corey Merkamp to start the bottom of the inning.

Bobb and Medved had Paint Valley's only hit and each drove in a run.

R H E

Paint Valley 1 0 0 0 0 0 3 -- 4 2 4

Southeastern 0 0 0 1 1 0 3 -- 5 3 3

WP -- Zach Hoylman (1-3); LP -- Drew Bobb

Adena takes pair from Huntington
05/01/04

Adena -- winner of four straight -- swept a Scioto Valley Conference baseball doubleheader from Huntington Saturday 15-4, 7-0 in a pair of makeup games.

In non-conference action Saturday, Washington CH blanked Unioto 10-0 in five innings and 6-0 and Zane Trace won a pair -- 6-3 over Jackson and 6-5 over Lucasville Valley.

Adena 15-7, Huntington 4-0

The Warriors got a pair of solid mound performances from junior David Loel and sophomore Adam Zurmehly to end Huntington's four-game winning streak.

Loel and reliever Brian Grigsby needed just 102 pitches -- 58 strikes -- to win the opener as all four Huntington runs were unearned. The Warriors (5-14, 5-8) were guilty of three errors and Huntington six. Grigsby pitched the last three innings.

Adena took a 9-1 lead with a five-run third inning highlighted by a pair of two-run hits by Dylon Givens and L. C. Guthrie. Lead-off batter Brian Grigsby drilled a homerun to open the game and finished with two hits. He scored three runs.

Givens, Adam Long, Loel and Clint Roush also had two hits apiece for the Warriors, including doubles by Long and Roush. Guthrie had a triple.

Isaac Weiderman went 3-for-3 for the Huntsmen (9-10, 5-6) with two doubles and drove in two runs. Aaron Chaney doubled and singles and Aarron Hopkins had two singles.

Zurmehly used just 94 pitches to blank the Huntsmen in the nightcap, giving up just one hit -- a single by Cody Vinings in the third inning.

Loel and John Knauff had two hits each for the Warriors and Knauff and Guthrie doubles.

R H E

Adena 1 3 5 1 0 2 3 -- 15 12 3

Huntington 1 0 0 0 3 0 0 -- 4 8 6

WP -- Loel; LP -- Aaron Chaney (2-2)

R H E

Huntington 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 -- 0 1 3

Adena 1 1 2 0 2 1 x -- 7 7 0

WP -- Adam Zurmehly; J. D. Cooper (2-2)

Zane Trace 6, Jackson 3

Sophomore Cody Lawhorn won his fifth straight decision -- allowing no earned runs, no walks and striking out none -- in a game lasting just an hour and 15 minutes.

The Pioneers (19-2) took control with five runs in the second inning on Zach Roll's three-run homerun and run-scoring doubles by Ben Haynes and Chris Davis.

Jam George capped the scoring with a solo homerun in the fifth inning -- his eighth tater of the season -- and Lawhorn helped his own cause with a pair of singles.

R H E

Jackson 1 0 0 2 0 0 0 -- 3 6 2

Zane Trace 0 5 0 0 1 0 x -- 6 8 2

WP -- Cody Lawhorn (5-0)

Zane Trace 6, Lucasville Valley 5

The Pioneers' Cam Wiley ended the game with a strikeout with the tying run at second base after the Indians had pulled within a run on a two-run double in the top of the seventh.

Jam George doubled home two runs in a three-run fifth inning and Cody Lawhorn doubled in a run and pinch-hitter Justin Shiflett singled in another in the sixth for a 6-3 lead.

George and Zach Lawhorn had two hits apiece.

R H E

Lucasville Valley 0 1 1 0 1 0 2 -- 5 7 1

Zane Trace 1 0 0 0 3 2 x -- 6 8 1

WP -- Cam Wiley (7-1)

Washington CH 10-6, Unioto 0-0

Washington CH improved to 15-1 -- winning the opener under the 10-run rule on Hatfield's walk-off homer with one out in the bottom of the fifth.

Koby Doughty led the Shermans (12-8) with two singles in the first game and Corey White doubled.

Hatfield had two hits in each game for Washington CH as Blue Lion pitchers limited Unioto to five hits in the opener and four in the nightcap. Corey Cottrell doubled for Unioto in the second game.

R H E

Unioto 0 0 0 0 0 -- 0 5 4

Washington CH 2 4 3 0 1 -- 10 8 1

WP -- Brown; LP -- Andy Russell (3-2)

R H E

Unioto 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 -- 0 4 2

Washington CH 2 0 0 2 1 1 x -- 6 7 0

WP -- Penwell; LP -- Jeremy Brown (1-2)

Adena ends Unioto's title hopes
04/30/04

Adena erased Unioto's faint hopes of sharing a Scioto Valley Conference baseball championship with an 8-4 win over the Shermans Friday evening.

Unioto (8-4) now trails league-leading Zane Trace by four games with just three games remaining. Zane Trace's title plans were put on hold Friday when the Pioneers' home game with Westfall was postponed to May 6 because of muddy grounds.

Huntington reeled off its fourth straight win 14-0 in five innings over Southeastern and Paint Valley handed Piketon a 10-4 defeat.

Adena 8, Unioto 4

The Warriors -- winners of three straight since being forced to forfeit its first 14 games when a player was ruled ineligible -- snapped a 1-1 tie with a five-run fifth inning highlighted by run-scoring singles by Joe Jaskowiak and Adam Long.

The final three runs of the inning crossed the plate on a pair of Unioto throwing errors on the same play.

The Shermans (12-6, 8-4) were guilty of five miscues and Adena (3-14, 2-8) committed four.

Jaskowiak was 2-for-2 with a double, scored two runs and drove in a pair. He worked the first 6 2/3 innings to earn the win, surviving six walks with 11 strikeouts. David Loel got the final out to preserve the win.

Long also had two hits, including a double, scored twice and drove in a run and John Knauff contributed a pair of hits as Adena outhit Unioto 8-3.

R H E

Adena 0 0 1 0 5 0 2 -- 8 8 4

Unioto 1 0 0 0 0 0 3 -- 4 3 5

WP -- Joe Jaskowiak; LP -- Chris Trainer

Huntington 14, Southeastern 0 (5 innings)

Isaac Weiderman spun a one-hitter on just 52 pitches as the Huntsmen reeled off their fourth straight win.

The only hit off the Huntington senior -- who threw 38 strikes and just 14 balls -- was a swinging bunt by the Panthers' Chris Mavis in the second inning.

The Huntsmen (9-8, 5-4) opened with four runs in the first inning and salted away the victory with a 10-run third.

Weiderman aided his own cause with three hits, driving in two runs, and Aarron Hopkins had two hits and scored three runs. Matt Eyre contributed a two-run single in the third inning and Casey Kellough doubled in the inning.

R H E

Southeastern 0 0 0 0 0 -- 0 1 2

Huntington 4 0 10 0 x -- 14 10 0

WP -- Isaac Weiderman (4-3); Jesse Johnson

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