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.