Senecas knock off Warriors in Top 3 showdown

It was No. 1 Calvert hosting No. 3 Mohawk at Heidelberg Tuesday in a nice tournament tune-up for both squads. In the end, the Senecas got the better of the Warriors 7-1.Calvert (21-3) out-hit Mohawk 9-3 as Blake Coleman (2 RBI) and AJ Shoemaker (2B) each tallied two hits, while Jacob Kidwell doubled and drove in a pair of runs, Connor Moyer singled and drove in two runs, Logan Ritzler singled and drove in a run and Charlie Palm doubled.Hunter Haynes doubled and drove in the lone run for the Warriors (18-5). Owen Patrizi and Levi Tiell also singled.Ritzler went the distance on the hill, allowing the one run on three hits with nine strikeouts and five walks. He bested Zikki Magallanes, who gave up seven runs on nine hits in 5 1/3 innings. He fanned six and walked five. Rams slip past ShelbySHELBY — Upper Sandusky scored twice in the top of the eighth and held on from there Tuesday to clip Shelby 3-1.The Rams (15-4) snapped a scoreless tie with a run in the second, but Shelby knotted the game with a run in the fifth.Reliever Brodie Cox got the win, going the final four innings. Caine Rupe started and pitched four scoreless innings.Kaleb Francis doubled, singled and scored for Upper Sandusky. David Gibson and Rupe each went 2 for 3, with Gibson scoring and Rupe driving in a run.Justin Heilman singled, Kasen Gottfried scored and Cox knocked in a run.Full names for the Whippets were not available. Big 5th inning fuels SEATTICA – With the score tied at 1 after four innings, Seneca East opened things up with a six-run fifth as the Tigers went on to beat Arcadia 7-1.Nicholas Parks doubled and drove in two runs for SE (11-13), while Branson Finnell added a double and an RBI, Gunner Polachek singled and drove in a run and Colton Ehresman doubled.Braydon Robinson was the winning pitcher with his three innings of relief. He gave up just one hit and struck out three. Brady Bloom and Gage Sumner also pitched. Buckettes beats Bucyrus for 3rd timeSHELBY – Buckeye Central handled Northern 10 foe Bucyrus 11-1 in a Division VI district semifinal at Shelby Tuesday. Leah Fields led the Buckettes (17-5) at the plate with four singles and three RBIs, while Zoey Hoskins added two triples, a single and two RBIs, Grace Collene drilled a home run, a single and drove in a run, Phoebe Rafferty singled twice, Savanah Pace tripled and drove in two runs and Aleyse Siefert singled and drove in a pair of runs.Collene was dominant in the circle, tossing a one-hitter. She went all six innings and fanned 10.With the win, the Buckettes will now play Wynford for a third time, back at Shelby Thursday at 5 p.m. Fliers blank Genoa in district semisFREMONT — Kennedi Long and Vanessa West each lined three hits Tuesday to spark Clyde's 9-0 Division IV district semifinal win against Genoa.Long doubled as part of hitting output for the Fliers (21-6), who will face either Lake or Rossford — their game was postponed due to rain — in Thursday's finals.Taitum Jeffrey and Mya Stiefel added two singles for Clyde, and Ember Andres and Teaghan Smith each had one.Jeffrey struck out eight and scattered three hits and four walks to get the complete-game win. Woodmore wallops Raiders 15-2CLYDE – After a scoreless first inning Tuesday in a Division VI district semifinal at Clyde, Woodmore got the bats going with three runs in the second and then tacked on back-to-back six-run innings to rout Lakota 15-2.Lakota (14-11) only had three hits as Elizabeth Strawman singled and drove in a run, Emma Jurovcik and Mya Stoudinger both singled and Kailynn Smith drove in a run.Sophia Bomer suffered the loss in the circle, giving up seven runs on four hits in just 2 1/3 innings. 6-run third lifts ChieftainsBASCOM – Hopewell-Loudon edged rival New Riegel 8-5 in a ran-shortened SBC River matchup Tuesday.H-L led 2-1 after one inning and then upped that after a six-run third. Both teams had six hits and they combined for 10 errors in the contest. For H-L (17-9), Brynn Sendelbach singled twice and drove in two runs, while Sidney Brickner doubled and singled, AnneMarie Berg singled and drove in a run and Morgan Hoover ended with an RBI.Lacey Schalk and Ava Wensink each doubled and drove in a run for the Blue Jackets (20-4). They also got a single and an RBI by Jacqui Tiell.Araceli Velasquez picked up the win with three innings in the circle, while Schalk took the loss. Tigers push past TC with wild 4thATTICA — Seneca East did all of its damage in the fourth inning, keyed by Ella Martin's three-run blast, to upend Columbian 10-8 Thursday.Columbian looked to gain control after Addie Smith doubled in Laela Haman, Corrine Plotts and Essa Aller for a 3-0 lead in the top of the second inning while Maizie Mellott threw three innings of no-hit ball.But then came the fourth.Jordyn Enders and Macey Webb sandwiched walks around Martin's single to load the bases before Paige Miller was hit by a pitch to force in Enders.Marin and Webb scored on a passed ball, and Brie Price and Davynn Smith each walked to reload the bases.Hanna Featheringill singled in Miller and Karah Reiter singled in Price and Smith before Seneca East got pop up for the first out.Enders singled in Featheringill, and Martin followed with her three-run bomb to left to make it 10-3.The Tornadoes tried to answer, starting in the sixth.Corrine Plotts walked, Mellott singled and Emma Blott walked to load the bases before Cam Haman singled in Plotts. Smith then singled in Mellott, with an error on the play scoring Blott and Cam Haman and putting Smith on second.The rally ended with a fly out to right.Breanna McNutt added a one-out solo homer in the top of the seventh to get TC within 10-8 and Plotts later hit a two-out single, but the Seneca East quashed the rally to secure the win.Laela Haman added a double for TC and Olyvia Steinmetz singled. TC girls 4x8 ends eighthFINDLAY — Columbian's 4x800 girls team finished eighth Tuesday at the Division I district track.Tornadoes Abbie Felske, Carmen Lewis, Leah Weingart and Grace Blonde ran the race in 10:28.2.The top four finishers in each event advance to next week's regional meet in Port Clinton.The district meet concludes Thursday.