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Branch bested by Lions

MINERVA — Minerva made its hits count Thursday. A day after being one-hit in an 8-0 loss at West Branch, Minerva bounced back with a 4-2 win over the Warriors. Each team scored one earned run. Brennan Barnes led the Lions with a double, an RBI and a run. Lane Tarbet and Parker Linkous each had a single and a run. Kolton Almasy also scored a run. Braydon Wood earned the complete-game victory, scattering four hits with 11 strikeouts and two walks. Drake Stryffeler led West Branch with two hits, including a triple and a single, drove in a run and scored another. Nick Scofinsky ...

Minerva thwarts Quakers

SALEM — Minerva built a five-run lead in the third inning and held on for an 8-2 win over Salem on Thursday in Eastern Buckeye Conference play. Salem’s three hits were all singles. Emilee Lewis took the loss for same with five strikeouts and five walks in four innings. Delaney Sell was the winning pitcher with 13 strikeouts and a walk across seven innings. Salem (1-2) is slated to host Struthers today. MI: 1-2-2-0-1-0-1 — 8-4-0 SA: 0-0-0-0-0-2-0 — 2-3-3 Wheeling Central 5, Columbiana 2 COLUMBIANA — Wheeling Central scored two unearned runs in the first inning ...

Just the start for Quakers

Salem 19, Warren Harding 6 WARREN — The top of the lineup for the Salem Quakers did what they are supposed to do. Emilee Lewis and Mikayla Sneltzer each scored three runs to put the Quakers on their way to a 19-6 win over Warren Harding in five innings Wednesday. Morgan Colian hit a double and drove in three runs. Aniya Jones and Lacie Gainor each had two hits Morgane Blaine and Shae Burkhart collected doubles. Colian got the victory, giving up one hit in one inning. The Quakers (1-1) are scheduled to host Minerva today. S: 1-4-6-8-0—19-13-1 H: 0-0-5-1-0— 6- 8-3 West ...

Salem rallies back but falls to Alliance

Alliance 12, Salem 11 SALEM — Salem rallied from a six-run deficit in the fifth inning to force extra innings before falling to Alliance, 12-11, in eight innings Wednesday. Alliance improves to 5-2 overall and 2-0 in the Eastern Buckeye Conference, while the Quakers drop to 1-4 and 0-2. Salem has scored 36 runs over its last four games. Bo Davis beat out a grounder for Alliance in the top of the eighth inning and eventually scored the winning run on Lincoln Reese’s single up the middle. In the bottom the eighth, Bairon Exline got to second base with two outs and Ben Kuboff ...

PREPTRACK

At United Tuesday BOYS RESULTS United 83, East Palestine 45 WINNERS 3200 RELAY: United (Hamilton, Moser, Hawkins Rininger) 9:40; 110 HURDLES: Tanner Morrow (EP) 17.1; 100 DASH: Cayden Pitts (U) 11.2; 800 RELAY: East Palestine (Morrow, Craft, Bycroft, Plum) 1:43.5; 1600 RUN: Josh Hawkins (U) 5:08; 400 RELAY: United (William, Kidder, Laibe, Pitts) 45.8; 400 DASH: Braydon Plum (EP) 52.3; 300 HURDLES: RJ May (EP) 46.7; 800 RUN: Josh Hawkins (U) 2:15.9; 200 DASH: Cayden Pitts (U) 23.6; 3200 RUN: Cannon Casto (U) 12:19; 1600 RELAY: East Plaestine (Morrow, May, Chestnut, Plum) 3:57.5; ...

Lisbon loses in 10

EAST LIVERPOOL — Meadow O’Rourke’s RBI single scored Addie Jones in the 10th inning to lead East Liverpool to an 8-7 win over Lisbon on Tuesday at Patterson Field. Lisbon was up 5-0 in the fifth inning before the Potters took the lead with six runs in the bottom of the sixth. Jones led the winners with three hits and an RBI. Trinity Pearson had a single and double. Johonna Vantilburg, O’Rourke, Kylee Evans and Alanna McGonigal had two hits each. Rayne Faessel went all 10 innings with eight strikeouts and four walks for the Potters. She threw 174 pitches. For Lisbon, ...