Seymour’s baseball team scored runs in its first five at-bats, then added four scores in the top of the seventh for an 11-1 win over Trinity Lutheran at Alf Snyder Field Monday afternoon.
The Owls took advantage of some shaky defense (four errors, three wild pitches) by the Cougars to score five unearned runs. Trinity pitchers walked 12.
Vince Wilson led off the top of the first with a single and scored an infield out by Charlie Longmeier.
Skylar Cockerham and Jack VonDielingen both walked and scored on errors in the second. Longmeier singled, advanced on an error and scored on a single by Treyton McCormick in the third. In the fifth, McCormick singled and scored on a sacrifice fly by VonDielingen, and Cockerham was safe on a fielder’s choice and scored on an error to make it 7-0.
Braden Richey retired the first 11 Cougar batters before Sage Broughton was safe on an error with two out in the fourth.
In the fifth, Kowan Gross was safe on a fielder’s choice. Luke Coomler walked, both runners moved up a base on a balk, and Levi Pottschmidt singled to center to drive in Gross.
Owls Coach Jeremy Richey said, “It was a good win. Offensively, we weren’t very good today, but we got enough timely hits to kind of break it open and we did a nice job defensively and pitching.”
In the top of the seventh, VonDielingen and Will Cottrill hit singles and Will Gray walked to load the bases. Bret Perry and Longmeier had two-run singles.
Braden Richey pitched the first five innings and allowed one hit, one run, he struck out seven and walked two. Mikey Wright pitched the final two innings and had three strike outs and three walks.
Coach Richey said, “Braden threw an inning at Austin, but this was his first varsity start, and the first time Mikey (pitched in a varsity game). I’m very pleased with them coming in and throwing strikes, and being aggressive and looking pretty good.”
The Owls (10-6) are scheduled to play at Southwestern (Hanover) today, and the Cougars (2-14) are scheduled to go to Oldenburg Academy today.
Other scores from around the county
Baseball
Brownstown falls at Clarksville
The Brownstown baseball team couldn’t get any runs on the scoreboard as it lost 4-0 at Clarksville on Monday night.
Ethan Garland and Grant Killey each had one hit, and Carson Darlage had two hits to lead the team. Killey and Darlage both spent time on the mound for the Braves.
Brownstown is now 9-7 and will be at Corydon on Thursday night.
Softball
Trinity beats Edinburgh
The Trinity Lutheran softball team had an 8-2 win over Edinburgh on Monday night. The Cougars were trailing 1-0 until the bottom of the sixth inning when they put up eight runs.
Bailey Tabeling, Grace Lance, Olivia Cain and Samantha Enzinger all had one hit, and Morgan Brewer had two hits. Brewer also had two RBI while Enzinger and Lance each one one.
Kamzi Gross pitched all seven innings for the Cougars, striking out 12 Edinburgh batters.
Trinity (9-5) will play at Clarksville tonight.
Owls roll past Lions
The Seymour softball team rolled to a 15-4 road win at Salem on Monday night.
Kynadee Warner and Kendrick Sterling led Seymour with four RBI each. Alexia Rieckers had two RBI, and Sydney Stewart, Phoebe Underwood and Kaylee Waskom each had one RBI.
Warner, Waskom, Rieckers, Sterling, Underwood, Kendall Allman and Camryn Sterling each had at least one hit as well.
Rieckers pitched the first three innings while Avery Stewart pitched the final two.
The Owls are now 10-7 and will be home against Jennings County today.
Brownstown falls at Floyd
The Brownstown softball team suffered an 11-1 loss at Floyd Central on Monday night.
The Braves got one run in the top of the second inning, but the Highlanders were able to score in all five innings of the game.
The Braves will look to bounce back at Charlestown on Thursday night.
Tennis
Owls top Panthers
The Seymour girls tennis team rolled over Jennings County 4-1 at North Vernon Monday afternoon.
Brooke Schafstall scored a 6-4, 6-4 win over Reagan Brown at No. 1 singles, and Elise Hartung defeated Mia Silvey 6-2, 6-2 at No. 3 singles. Panther Tatum Brown topped Madalyn Baurle 6-2, 6-3 at No. 2 singles.
Seymour’s Caroline Thompson and Ashley Clemente won 4-6, 6-4, 6-0 at No. 1 doubles, and Jessica Hougland and Addison Hunsley won 6-1, 6-2 at No. 2 doubles.
The Owls (10-1) will host Bedford North Lawrence today.
Golf
Seymour falls to East, New Albany
The Seymour golf team hosted Columbus East and New Albany at Shadowood Golf Course on Monday. After beating both those teams at the BNL Invite on Saturday, the Owls struggled finishing with a team score of 180 and placing behind both teams. East won with 166 and New Albany was second with 172.
Oliver Kardos and Andon Self both shot a 44, Ty Stuckwisch and Noah Surface each shot a 46 and Trevor Alberring shot a 53.
The Owls will compete again at the Bloomington North Invite at Cascades Golf Course on Saturday.
Track and field
Crothersville competes at Austin
The Crothersville track and field team competed in a four-team meet on Monday at Austin. The girls team placed second with 75 points behind Austin’s 77, and the boys placed third with 14 points.
Kiarra Lakins won the 110 hurdles in 21.43, Kennadi Lakins won the 100 (14.63) and Carlee Walker was third in the 100 (15.50). Kennadi won the 300 hurdles (59.56) and Kiarra was third (1:21.25). Kaylyn Holman won the 1600 (5:49.74) while Ella Plasse was fourth (6:17.27). Holman also won the 800 (2:37.97) and Plasse was second in the 3200 (14:08.35).
Pearl Shirley was second in the 400 (1:11.87) and second in the 200 (31.18), and Walker was fourth in the 200 (32.97).
Kennadi Lakins set a new personal best in both the high jump (4-11) and long jump (15-10.5). She placed first in both those events.
For the boys, Travis DeHart was second in the 100 (12.53) and 200 (26.06), Dirk Crater was sixth in the 1600 (5:21.93), fourth in the 800 (2:30.01) and second in long jump (16-8), and Corey Reynolds had a PR throw of 52-0 in the discus.