Yellow Jackets baseball shuts out Licking Valley, 7-0
The Mount Vernon Yellow Jackets baseball team got its 2022 season under way with a 7-0 exhibition win over Licking Valley on Tuesday, March 15. Five Jackets pitchers held Licking Valley to one hit.
Mount Vernon struck for three runs in the third to break open a scoreless tie. The Jackets added a run in the fourth, another in the fifth and two in the sixth to take the 7-0 victory.
Jonny Askew and Trevor Buttke each banged out two hits for the Yellow Jackets, and Marcus Bradley walked twice. Caden Rowland and Bradley each threw two perfect innings.
Lady Jackets lose opener to Triway
The Mount Vernon softball team opened its 2022 season with an exhibition game Wednesday, March 16, against Triway and came out on the short end of an 11-2 score.
The Lady Jackets were held to three hits, while Triway erupted for 16. The game was close for 5 1/2 innings, with Triway grabbing a 1-0 lead in the first. The Wooster-based Titans added a run in the third and another in fifth to go up 3-0. The Lady Jackets made it a game by scoring two in the sixth to cut the lead to 3-2, but the action also woke up the Titans’ bats, and they responded with an eight-spot in the bottom of the sixth to go ahead 11-2.
Mount Vernon Babe Ruth League new-player tryouts
New-player tryouts for 2022 Babe Ruth League baseball are set for Saturday, March 26, from 9 am. to noon at Memorial Park on Mount Vernon Avenue. The Mount Vernon Babe Ruth Association, doing business as Knox Babe Ruth League of Knox County, has scheduled in-person registration for 13-to-16-year olds.
Lords lacrosse team erupts for 14 goals
The Kenyon College men’s lacrosse team erupted for a 14-5 win over the Adrian College Bulldogs on Wednesday. Both teams had gotten off to strong 4-1 starts on the year, but the Lords dominated at the Benson Bowl on March 16.
Both teams started out the first quarter slowly, with neither able to get into an offensive groove. But the Lords slowly began to find a rhythm, pounding the ball into the center with sharp passing. With 5:21 left in the first quarter, Cameron Longway scored off a Chase MacCartee pass to break the deadlock. Longway soon added another goal, shooting from the outside left flank and finding the back of the net. Rollins Heath added an additional goal to give the Lords a 3-0 lead.
Ahead 3-1, the Lords wasted no time getting going offensively in the second quarter. MacCartee opened the scoring with a nifty flip goal off a perfectly centered pass from Ian Gobron. From there, Kenyon added a barrage of goals: Declan Curry scored his eight on the year, Joe Bossel added his fourth, and a mere six seconds later, first-year Thomas Nelson scored his first collegiate goal. All four goals were scored within the first four minutes of the quarter and put the Lords up 7-1, and Longway and Heath each chipped in another goal, sandwiching a single Adrian score, to give Kenyon a 9-2 lead heading into halftime.
The Bulldogs had their highest-octane offensive quarter in the fourth, netting three goals, but the Lords scored five of their own, including Tucker Fulton and Will Harrigan’s firsts of the season, to more than keep up the pace. At the final whistle, the Lords were victorious 14-5, moving their record on the year to 5-1.
Offensively, Longway led the team with three goals scored while MacCartee had two goals and an assist. Jack Giuffre led the Lords with two assists.
