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Mud Hens game suspended in 4th, will resume Thursday
LOUISVILLE — The Toledo Mud Hens took a 4-1 lead over the Louisville Bats on Wednesday before an hour-long rain delay led to the game being suspended in the middle of the fourth inning. The contest will resume at 5:05 p.m. Thursday, and Thursday’s originally scheduled game will be played as a seven-inning game 30 minutes after the completion of Wednesday’s game. Michael Trautwein led off the bottom of the second with a solo home run to give Louisville the initial lead Wednesday, but Toledo’s Buddy Kennedy did the same to tie the game in the top of the third. Jace Jung led off Toledo’s half of the fourth with a double and later scored on an Akil Baddoo RBI single to give the Mud Hens the lead. Starting pitcher Randy Wynne walked Justice Bigbie with one out, leading the Bats (26-20) to make a call to the bullpen. Baddoo stole third, and Bligh Madris knocked a two-run single off reliever Alex Young, scoring Baddoo and Bigbie. After two groundouts ended the half-inning, the game entered a rain delay and was eventually called for the night.
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Adrian College baseball ready for first Super Regional series
ASHLAND, Va. — Times have changed in the short amount of time it's been since the Adrian College baseball team won a regional title. Back in 2021 and in 2008, the regional title granted a one-way ticket to the NCAA Division III College World Series, but the format changed in 2022. Instead of eight big regionals, the last two seasons have been broken into 16 regionals with the 16 champions playing in best 2-of-3 series Super Regionals to get into the College World Series.
Ottawa Hills, Lake advance to D-III district finals
DEFIANCE — Ottawa Hills is one win away from a third consecutive district championship following an 8-1 victory over Archbold. Standing in the way is Lake, which outlasted Otsego 10-6 in the late game of the Division III districts, setting the stage for Saturday’s noon showdown with a regional berth on the line. “We got clutch hits, we scored in five of the six innings, and we got pretty good pitching,” summed up Ottawa Hills head coach Chris Hardman, who led the Green Bears to the state semifinals a year ago and now has his squad at 18-9 this season against a very challenging schedule. Deadlocked at 1-1, Ottawa Hills pushed across two runs in the bottom of the third and pulled away with one in the fourth and two in each of the fifth and sixth innings.
Mud Hens edge Bats in extras in continuation of Wednesday's game; nightcap of DH rained out
LOUISVILLE — The Toledo Mud Hens won over Louisville in extra innings by a final of 9-8 on Thursday in a game that was a continuation of play that was suspended Wednesday. Because of a rainout the night before, Thursday was penciled in as a doubleheader, but the seven-inning nightcap had to be postponed because of weather again. As a result, on Friday the Mud Hens and Bats will play a pair of seven-inning contests with first pitch of the opener coming at 5:05 p.m. at Louisville Slugger Field. Although Toledo (26-21) had blown a five-run lead that forced the game into extras, a Bligh Madris sacrifice fly scored Jace Jung for the go-ahead run in the top of the 11th inning, allowing the Mud Hens to prevail. Toledo pitcher Trey Wingenter struck out the side in the bottom half to shut down the Bats and earn the win.
Toledo ousted from MAC baseball tournament after splitting games
AVON, Ohio — Sixth-seeded Toledo outlasted the No. 4 and No. 5 seeds at the Mid-American Conference baseball tournament, but the Rockets’ run came to an end Friday afternoon with a 4-3 loss to No. 3 seed Ball State in an elimination game. The Rockets, who were sent to the elimination bracket with an 8-0 loss Thursday evening to second-seeded Western Michigan, bounced back Friday morning with an 8-4 victory over No. 4 seed Miami (Ohio). Living to play another game! ????@toledobaseball | #MACtion pic.twitter.com/jFbbpwACtO Against Ball State, however, the Rockets couldn’t overcome the Cardinals’ three-run sixth inning, finishing the season with a 27-32 record.
Division III and IV softball: Oak Harbor to face former league foe in regional semifinal
Three Toledo-area high school softball teams will be chasing regionals in Division III and Division IV this week. In Division III, sixth-ranked NBC champion Oak Harbor (24-2, 11-1) looks to earn its second trip to the state final four in three years after reaching the D-II semifinals in 2022. The Rockets of second-year coach Cami Haas face former longtime Sandusky Bay Conference foe Margaretta (19-10) in Wednesday's 5 p.m. semifinal at Findlay High School. Two area teams have qualified for regionals in Division IV, with Buckeye Border Conference runner-up Montpelier (17-7, 7-1) facing Monroeville in the 5 p.m. semifinal at Rossford, and SBC River Division member Fremont St. Joseph (12-13) facing eighth-ranked Vienna Mathews in a 2 p.m. semifinal at Berea.
Perrysburg, Anthony Wayne win to meet for regional softball title
CLYDE, Ohio – Northern Lakes League rivals Perrysburg and Anthony Wayne have advanced to Friday's Division I regional softball finals at Clyde High School's Joe Wilson Field. Perrysburg’s eighth-ranked Yellow Jackets (26-4) edged North Ridgeville 3-2 in Wednesday's first regional semifinal, and AW’s third-ranked Generals (28-1) topped Brecksville-Broadview Heights 5-0 in the second semifinal at Clyde. The NLL foes square off at 5 p.m. on Friday. Perrysburg got a clutch two-out, two-strike single from sophomore Kylynn Thomas that drove in classmate Yesenia You from second base with the go-ahead run in the top of the seventh, then held on to win. Maison Gerrard, the Jackets' fourth-year pitcher, scattered 10 hits to earn the complete-game victory.
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