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Chiefs, Raiders & Pirates win in first round tournament action

Written by Lauri Allen

Tuesday, 13 May 2008

The Raiders baseball scoreboard Tuesday night

Several local teams opened tournament play in baseball and softball Tuesday evening. Benjamin Logan hosted both a baseball and softball game while Bellefontaine boys looked to knock out Milton-Union again in the Sectional Tournament. Riverside baseball had a tough match with Jackson Center in Division IV.

(Audio interview and scores and pictures in this story.) Bellefontaine capitalized on several miscues by Milton-Union to easily win their opener in the Division II baseball tournament.

A thirteen (13) run third inning sealed the deal as the Chiefs rolled 17 to 1 in five innings. During the third inning Brock Mitchell had two singles to lead the Chiefs offensively. Also, Zach Horton and Jeremy Clifton doubled as the Chiefs pulled away.

Brandon Winter was the winning pitcher, throwing 4 innings of no-hit baseball with 5 strikeouts. Frank Busse suffered the loss. He went 2 innings and gave up 1 hit and 1 run.

Milton-Union pitching struggled with their control giving up 7 walks and hitting 3 Chieftain batters.

Bellefontaine moves to 14-8 (9-6) and will battle 4th-seeded Northwestern on Thursday.

Listen to Bellefontaine head coach Mark Brunswick recap the game and look ahead to Northwestern.

Jeremiah Kerns gets ready for a Lakers pitch

In other action Benjamin Logan defeated Indian Lake 6-2. For Benjamin Logan Jeremiah Kerns pitched a 2-hit complete game, striking out 11 batters and walking 4. Logan Conley paced the Raiders with 3 hits and 4 RBI's.

The big inning for the Raiders came in the bottom of the third when Benjamin Logan broke open a 3-2 game and scored three runs. After that Kerns cruised over the next four innings.

For Indian Lake, Mike Morgan hit two doubles with two RBI's.

Ben Logan moves to 16-8 (10-5) and will play in the Sectional Semi-Finals Thursday night at Urbana.

Springfield Shawnee topped Graham 7-4.

Dayton Carroll beat Greenon 4-2.

In Division IV Riverside won a thriller over Jackson Center 7-6. They will play #2 seed Covington Thursday.

In Division III #2 seeded West Liberty-Salem now knows they will play #12 Northridge, who upset National Trail 7-6.

The Lady Raiders knock out Graham

In softball Benjamin Logan took an early lead and held off Graham for a 4-2 victory. The Lady Raiders will play at Northwestern on Thursday.

In other games Kenton Ridge dominated Springfield South 10-0. They will host Bellefontaine Thursday.

Urbana edged Greenon 1-0 and will travel to Tipp City to take on the Red Devils Thursday afternoon.

#1 seed Indian Lake will host Springfield Shawnee, who knocked out Dayton Carroll 3-0.

In Division IV #2 seed Triad smacked Mississinawa Valley 17-0.

Riverside will play #3 Houston, who ran over Emmanuel Christian 12-0.

In Tuesday night regular season softball, Tipp City beat Indian Lake 3-0.

Michelle Herren and Chelsea Cramer each had singles.

The Lakers hurt themselves with four errors.

The next game for the Lady Lakers is Thursday at home versus Springfield Shawnee. The Lakers are 20-4 overall and 13-3 in the CBC.

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