HANOVERTON — United’s baseball team injected a little excitement into the Eastern Ohio Athletic Conference race by besting Columbiana 4-1 on a cold Wednesday afternoon.

United is 8-5 and 7-1 in the EOAC. Columbiana (10-1, 4-1) was ranked third in the Div. III state coaches’ poll coming into the game.

United is still in good shape to make an upset run at the league title as the Eagles lead Columbiana 3-1 in a game that was suspended in the second inning on Monday.

“We did not see it coming but we wll take it,” United coach Bob Manfull said. “Columbiana is still a great team, but we just managed to have a good game. That’s the kind of league it is this year. Anyone can beat anyone on a given day.”

The Eagles have two games with East Palestine and one game with Wellsville left outside of the Columbiana contest. That Columbiana game will be completed on Tuesday at Firestone Park.

Grant Knight led the Eagles with two hits and three runs against the Clippers. Trent Newburn added two RBIs. Andrew Winn and Tyler Dickens had a hit and RBI each.

Nevin Hahlen went the distance and struck out eight.

“He wasn’t even supposed to pitch today,” Manfull said. “We only told him at 4:30.”

Zachary Pleska had two hits for Columbiana who managed just three total hits in the game.

United hosts Carrollton today.

Columbiana is at Mooney today.

CO: 0-0-0-0-1-0-0–1-3-3

UN: 2-0-1-0-1-0-x–4-7-1

UN–Nevin Hahlen, wp (7IP, 8K, 2BB)

CO–Devin Daugherty, lp (4IP, 4K, 0BB), Seth Spooner (2IP, 4K, 3BB)

Lisbon 23,

Leetonia 0

LISBON — A day after Leetonia won its first game of the season, Lisbon was not about to offer a repeat performance.

Lisbon totaled 13 hits — all singles — in a 23-0 win over the Bears on Wednesday.

Owens had three hits and three RBIs to lead the winners. Hunter Sturgeon had two hits and three RBIs. Brayden Flory had two hits and two RBIs.

Leetonia got one hit from Jacob McCool.

Lisbon is 7-7 and will be at Crestview today.

LE: 0-0-0-0-0–0-1-6

LI: 9-9-4-1-0–23-13-2

LE–Jacob McCool, lp (1/3IP, 0K, 4BB), Evan Rosko (1/3IP, 0K, 3BB), Carson Brock (2/3IP, 0K, 4BB), Gabe Evans (2/3IP, 0K, 2BB), Case Henderson (2/3IP, 0K, 0BB)

LI–Ryan Reckner, wp (5IP, 7K, 0BB)

Salem 10, Alliance 0

SALEM — Salem’s Carson Rhodes struck out eight on 81 pitches to lead the Quakers to a 10-0 win over Alliance on Wednesday in Eastern Buckeye Conference play.

Salem is now 10-3 and 5-3 in the league and till be at South Range on Saturday.

Rhodes also had a double and a single with three RBIs. Blaize Exline had a home run and single. Gavin Wilms had two hits as did Cayden Burt.

AL: 0-0-0-0-0-0–0-3-2

SA: 2-1-4-0-0-3–10-11-1

SA–Carson Rhodes, wp (6IP, 8K, 3BB)

AL–Ty Young, lp (3 2/3IP, 3K, 4BB), Tar-Sean Williams (2IP, 2K, 3BB)

SOFTBALL

Salem 8, Carrollton 7

CARROLLTON — Salem’s softball team had to hang on to defeat Carrollton 8-7 on Wednesday in Eastern Buckeye Conference action.

Salem is 10-9 and 3-4 in the league.

Mack Zumbar had three hits and two RBIs for the Quakers. Rylie Troy had a double, single and an RBI. Chase Toy had two hits and an RBI.

Salem is at Marlington today.

SA: 0-1-1-4-0-1-1–8-11-1

CA: 1-0-2-0-0-0-4–7-13-7

SA–Rylie Troy, wp (7IP, 4K, 1BB)

CA–J. Pidgeon, lp (7IP, 6K, 5BB)