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Southeastern seniors play through pain
This has not been a typical season for the Southeastern baseball team. The Trojans still have a shot of stretching their streak of sectional titles to six when the tournament begins next week, but going into a game Thursday at Riverside, they were 5-13 overall.For two seniors on the team, ...
Cueto to make rehab start in Dayton
Johnny Cueto was a relatively unknown 20-year-old when he pitched for the Dayton Dragons in 2006. He was still two years away from making his big-league debut, and it would be another five years until he became the dominant pitcher he is today.Cueto will return to Fifth Third Field at ...
Braves take series with big 7th inning
Dusty Baker rolled the dice. The Reds manager played the percentages and gambled at the same time by sending pitcher Mike Leake to the plate with the tying run at second in the seventh. If the result was any indication, it’s unlikely Baker spent any time Wednesday after the game ...
Reds win on back-to-back homers in 9th
Every writer on deadline in the press box had one story written late Tuesday night. Devin Mesoraco and Shin-Soo Choo had another story in mind.Mesoraco rescued the Reds from certain defeat in the ninth with a game-tying, pinch-hit, two-out, two-strike home run, just over the glove of the Braves center ...
Simon, found on scrap heap, getting better for Reds
One of these days, they might run out of space for the K cards in the upper deck in left field at Great American Ball Park. It might take an extra-inning game for the Reds to get to 22 strikeouts — that’s how many spaces there are — but this ...
It’s official: Oakland joins Horizon League
The long-rumored move of Oakland University to the Horizon League became official Tuesday. The Golden Grizzlies will officially join the league July 1, the Horizon League announced, and will compete in all the conference’s sports, except men’s tennis. “I’ve respected their program for many years,” Wright State Athletic Director Bob ...
Baker chases milestone win
Reds manager Dusty Baker sits in the same spot for every home game, just to the right of the steps leading to the on-deck circle. He gnaws on his trademark toothpicks with the same intensity the players reserve for sunflower seeds, which litter the dugout steps and every square foot ...
Lutz gets monkey off his back with first hit
Donald Lutz knows a thing or two about the Hofbräuhaus, having been to the famous beer hall a couple of times. That’s the original in Munich, Germany, of course, not the one across the river from Great American Ball Park in Newport.The newest Reds outfielder started his first series in ...
Hoover on a roll for Reds
J.J. Hoover got off to a rocky start this season. The fans were turning on him just days into the season when he gave up two earned runs twice in the first four games.Hoover acknowledged his struggles on Twitter on April 6.“Thanks for the support,” he wrote. “I know not ...
Braves halt Reds’ momentum
Reds manager Dusty Baker was asked before Monday’s game against the Braves if he believes in momentum, a concept that’s about as fickle in baseball as the weather. “Momentum’s in the hands of the pitcher,” Baker said. “He can create momentum or stop it.” That was never truer than Monday ...
Three Wright State freshmen leaving program
Wright State announced the departure of three freshman men’s basketball players Sunday: guards Joe Bramanti and Bobo Drummond and forward Jacoby Roddy. The three have not announced their future plans. Coach Billy Donlon said he had known about Drummond and Roddy leaving for some time. Neither of the Peoria, Ill, ...
Shawnee boys, Northeastern girls repeat
The Northeastern girls athletes held up three fingers and said “three!” as they posed for photos with the trophy. The Shawnee boys took their trophy on a celebratory lap around the track and handed it off like a baton at the finish line.Both teams may be used to winning the ...
Former South star giving back with clinics, camp
Nate Miller grew up going to basketball camps run by Jim Scoby and Jayson Gee in Springfield.This summer, the former South High School and Bowling Green star, now playing professionally in Israel, will give back to the community by holding on a weekly clinic in June and a five-day Nate ...
Reds go 10-10 in busy stretch
The Reds were one game over .500 (5-4) when they had their last off day before a stretch of 20 games in 20 days. They promptly lost their next three games to the Pirates, then won eight of 10 at home and closed one of the toughest stretches of the ...
WSU Insider: DeWitt leads strong stretch for softball team
Fifteen of the 18 players on Wright State’s softball roster are from Ohio, so when the Raiders played five games in Los Angeles to start the season in February, it was only natural that junior pitcher Krystian DeWitt, who’s from Garden Grove, Calif., played tour guide “We were driving around, ...
Shawnee pitcher throws best game of his career against Tipp
Tyler Bostick spent Monday in the hospital battling stomach pains. A day later, he felt well enough not only to take the mound against first-place Tippecanoe, but to throw the game of his life.A day after losing 8-0 to the Red Devils, the Braves beat them 2-0 on Tuesday with ...
Witt wraps up productive spring practice season
The sounds of Wittenberg’s last spring football practice drifted at least five blocks from Edwards-Maurer Field on Tuesday night. At 11 p.m, you could hear the Tigers working, even if you couldn’t see them.The 2013 season won’t begin for real until August practices begin, but in some ways, Wittenberg’s season ...
Buckeye baseball booming under Beals
Greg Beals has the Ohio State baseball program on an upward trajectory.After being hired as head coach in June 2010, the 1988 Kenton Ridge graduate has guided the Buckeyes to a 26-27 record the next spring. A year ago, they finished 33-27. With a 28-13 record coming into this week, ...
WSU Insider: Rain playing havoc with baseball season
What’s the old saying? Rain, rain, go away. Come again another day. That’s never been more apt for the Wright State baseball team than this month. The busiest part of the Horizon League schedule has been washed out. The Raiders are scheduled to play Valparaiso today, and if the weather ...
Cozart saves day with key play
Zack Cozart unleashed bad throws Monday and Tuesday, and Dusty Baker was asked Wednesday if Cozart’s hand was still bothering him. Maybe that was the reason for the rare errors by the usually sharp Reds shortstop. “He’s fine,” Baker said. “Every time a guy makes a bad throw, there’s not ...
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