The Hayes Pacers didn’t score until the sixth inning, but received a solid outing from senior pitcher Tyler Miller and pushed home three runs in the sixth to scramble past the visiting Westerville Central Warhawks 3–1 Tuesday afternoon at Fouts-Wood Field in Delaware.
Normally, a season-opening baseball game shows just what a team has trouble with and what they need to work on. The Orange Pioneers showed nothing like that in their opener.
Hayes senior Jacob Bosiokovic may not have been able to finish out his final season on the basketball court, suffering a high ankle sprain just when the race for a conference crown started to heat up, but he showed he was more than ready for the start of the baseball season Saturday afternoon at Delaware Hayes High School.
March Madness is unde rway. Baseball season begins in two weeks. Clearly, it must be time for a column about the law of … football? Indeed, football is the sport making legal news right now both for the penalties it has just imposed on teams for violations of a non-existent salary cap in 2010 and, even more so, for the penalties that it is about to impose on teams for running a “bounty” system. The latter is more critical, and, though law enforcement officials in cities like New Orleans, Buffalo and Washington have already declined to become involved, it is the latter that also likely crossed the line into being criminal.
It was a complete team effort for Chris Kelly’s Braves.Olentangy put together a 14–0 second-quarter run to turn a 13–12 deficit into a 26–13 lead en route to a 56–47 non-conference victory over rival Big Walnut in the third game of Wednesday night’s Larry Eberst Classic at Delaware Hayes High School.
Ohio Wesleyan University will induct 11 former Battling Bishop standouts — including 7 All-America or Academic All-America selections — and a former longtime coach into the University’s Athletic Hall of Fame during ceremonies on Saturday during Homecoming Weekend.
CLEVELAND (AP) — Gavin Floyd allowed four hits over 7 2–3 innings and Carlos Quentin hit a three-run homer in the fifth to give the Chicago White Sox a 3–0 victory over the Cleveland Indians on Friday night.
PITTSBURGH (AP) — Cincinnati Reds manager Dusty Baker kept telling his team it would only take one hit to break out of a woeful slump.Turns out, it only took one Pittsburgh Pirates error.