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Lisbon still alive

From Staff Reports

STRUTHERS — Lisbon is the last team standing in Columbiana County.

Riding a 14-strikeout performance from Logan Bell, the Blue Devils became the only county baseball team to win a sectional title this season by topping Lowellville 3-1 on Thursday in a Div. IV sectional final at Cene Park.

The sectional title is Lisbon’s fifth in school history and improves the Devils to 12-13-1. Lisbon will face Warren JFK at 5 p.m. Tuesday in the district semifinal.

Bell improved to 7-1 on the season and now has 301 strikeouts for his career.

Josh Entrikin had two hits and an RBI for the Devils as did Tyler Welsh. Brice Blackburn had a double, single and an RBI.

The Devils scored one run each in the first, second and fifth innings. Lowellville scored once in the fourth.

LI: 1-1-0-0-1-0-0–3-8-1

LO: 0-0-0-1-0-0-0–1-4-2

LI– Logan Bell, wp (14K, 4BB).

LO–Bryan Harris, lp (6K, 1BB).

McDonald 2, Southern 1

MCDONALD — Zach Nolf outdueled Josh Pratt as McDonald came away with a 2-1 victory over Southern Local in a Div. IV sectional final on Thursday.

Nolf struck out seven in the complete-game performance, while Pratt had five strikeouts.

McDonald advances to meet Springfield at 5 p.m. on Tuesday at Cene Park.

For the Indians (13-10), Pratt and Conner Lewis had singles. Sam May had a sac fly RBI.

Nolf and Tanner Matig had a hit and RBI each for McDonald.

SL: 0-0-0-1-0-0-0–1-3-1

MC: 1-0-1-0-0-0-0–2-4-1

MC–Zach Nolf, wp (7K, 2BB) and Tanner Matig

SL–Josh Pratt, lp (5K, 2BB) and Conner Lewis

Springfield 7, Heartland 0

NEW MIDDLETOWN–Top-seeded Springfield rolled past ninth-seeded Heartland Christian 7-0 in a Div. IV sectional final Thursday.

The Tigers improve to 22-3 and advance to take on fourth-seeded McDonald in a district semifinal at 5 p.m. Tuesday at Cene Park in Struthers. The Lions finish the season at 8-11.

John Slike supplied two hits and two RBIs, whil e Drew Clark had a single and two RBIs.

Caleb Graft, Tom Kling and Joel Morgan all singled for Heartland.

HC: 0-0-0-0-0-0-0–0-3-2

SP: 2-0-3-1-0-1-x–7-7-0

HC–Nate Garzanich, lp, (5IP, 0K, 5BB), Luke Rafferty (1IP, 0K, 0BB) and Aaron Gault.

SP–Shane Eynon, wp, (7IP, 8K, 0BB) and Jarrett Orbin.

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