Roundup: Crooksville softball stuns Wellston
CHILLICOTHE — Crooksville was in dire straits during Wednesday's Division III district semifinal.
The 10th-seeded Ceramics were down to their final strike, but Emma Wilson ripped a two-out triple with the bases loaded then scored the game-winning run on a passed ball in the seventh inning of a 4-3 comeback win over third seed Wellston at Chillicothe Unioto.
The Rockets took a 1-0 lead on Kamryn Karr's RBI double in the second, while Jenna Johnston and Alyssa Petersen each hit solo home runs in the fourth to make it 3-0.
McKenna Headley kept the Wellston bats in check from there, as she scattered six hits, fanned two and walked two in a complete game win. She also had two of the Ceramics' five hits.
Crooksville faces the winner of Portsmouth-Chillicothe Zane Trace in the district final at 5 p.m. Saturday.
Baseball
Division II
Sheridan 5, Vincent Warren 2: The second-seeded Generals overcame a first-inning deficit to pick up a sectional title and advanced to face third seed Chillicothe Unioto in a district semifinal at 8 p.m. Monday at Ohio University.
Collin Duffey allowed two runs on two hits in two innings before reliever Caden Sheridan fanned 10 and walked two in five innings of one-hit relief to earn the win for Sheridan.
The Generals tied the game at 2 in the second behind run-scoring singles from Blake Turnes and Corey Amspaugh.
Turnes scored the Generals' go-ahead run in the fourth. He opened the inning with a double, moved to third on a sac bunt, and came home on Reid Packer's suicide squeeze.
Jarrett Thorne added a RBI single and Turnes doubled him home in the fifth to cap the scoring.
Turnes finished with three hits, Thorne added a pair of hits and Sheridan and Blaine Hannan doubled for the winners.
Washington Court House 10, New Lexington 1: The 13th-seeded Panthers scored in the first inning but three New Lex errors aided the fifth-seeded Blue Lions in a sectional final victory.
Tatem Toth walked in the first and came home on Hunter Kellogg's two-out single for New Lex, but the Panthers only had four hits in the game.
The Blue Lions scored three in the third to take control, as Jonah Waters's two-out, two-run single capped the frame.
Tanner Lemaster collected two hits and three RBIs, Waters knocked in three runs and Karson Runk and Bryce Yeazel, who had two RBIs, added two hits apiece for WCH.
Lemaster also went six innings to earn the win. He allowed four hits and fanned six.
Kellogg collected two hits, Donovan Shriner and Timmy Fulk had singles, and Toth surrendered six runs, one earned, on seven hits and struck out five in 4 1/3 innings to suffer the loss.
This article originally appeared on Zanesville Times Recorder: Roundup: Crooksville softball stuns Wellston
