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Tuesday, March 31, 2009
Triad starts softball season with 10-0 win
The Triad High School softball team started the 2009 spring season with a 10-0, 5-inning win against Graham on Monday, March 30.
This is the first tim the Cardinals have played a varsity game since they advanced to the Division IV state softball championship game last season.
The game was scoreless until the third inning, when the Cardinals scored twice. Triad scored five more times in the fourth.
Kelsey Funderburgh had three hits and two runs batted in, while Addie Dixon had two hits and two runs batted in.
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Borchers still going strong
Yellow Springs grad Sam Borchers is still going strong.
Borchers, a sophomore at Penn State University, recently helped the Nittany Lions distance medley squad finished ninth overall at the NCAA Indoor Championships in College Station, Texas in 9:37.62 — just over a tenth of a second out of All-America status.
Borchers covered the 1600-meter leg in 4:02.62, anchoring the Lions to a fourth-place finish in their heat.
He won the 1,500 meter run at the Big Ten Championships last season. Here’s a video of the race.
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Columbus Comets open season April 18
A year ago, the News-Sun followed two Springfielders, Northeastern grad Andrea Judy and South grad Erin McEnaney, through a year of play with the Columbus Comets of the National Women’s Football Association.
Judy’s season lasted one play as she tore her ACL on the opening kickoff of the season. This year, she’s back, and so are the Comets, who open play at 7 p.m. April 18 at home against the Pittsburgh Force at Grove City Christian School.
The NWFA folded after the 2008 season, and the Comets joined the 35-team Women’s Football Alliance. The WFA also includes the Dayton Diamonds.
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Monday’s high school baseball highlights
Here’s a rundown of Monday’s high school baseball action. It was the first day of the 2009 season.
Most runs scored: 18, by Kenton Ridge.
Shutout wins: Kenton Ridge, Springfield, Urbana.
Home runs: Randon McNeil, Kenton Ridge.
Four hits: Zach Raynor, Greeneview.
Three hits: Seth Rogers, Graham; Xavier Jordan, Shawnee; Amante Howard, Springfield; Tom Sandy, Brad Barnhorst and Jordan Elzey, Greeneview; Randon McNeil and Ethan Sharpin, Kenton Ridge.
Top pitchers: Michael Dunfee (Urbana), no-hitter against Marysville; Luke Mamer (Kenton Ridge), one-hitter against Southeastern; Jimmy Powell (Springfield), two-hitter against Northeastern; Tyler Hayes (West Liberty-Salem), 8 Ks against Greenon; Robbie Holt (Shawnee), 8 Ks against London.
Complete box scores of games called into the News-Sun, plus Tuesday’s schedule, on the jump.
MARCH 30
Northeastern 000 00 — 0 2 5 Springfield 302 14 — 10 14 1 5 innings; run rule Williams, Jenkins (4), Jones (5) and Rucker; Powell and Bailey. HIGHLIGHTS — S: Howard 3-4, 2 2Bs; Moore 2-4, Burks 2-3, Powell 2-2, 8 Ks; DePriest 2B. Northeastern is 0-1. Springfield, 1-0, hosts Kenton Ridge today at 5 p.m. ——— Graham 000 000 22 — 4 8 1 Triad 000 002 00 — 2 5 3 Kunkel, Zook (7) and Holcomb; Funderburgh, James (7) and Marenberg. HIGHLIGHTS — G: Rogers 3-5, 3 RBIs; Zook 2B. Triad: Deam 2B; James 2 RBIs. Triad, 0-1, hosts Mechanicsburg today at 5 p.m. Graham is 1-0. ——— Marysville 000 00 — 0 0 1 Urbana 015 13 — 10 9 3 5 innings; run rule Hotham, Spefry (4) and Gase, Hotham (4); Dunfee and Reisinger. HIGHLIGHTS — Dunfee no-hitter, 8 Ks; Gomes 2B; Salisbury 2B; Freeman 2B, 2 RBIs; Henson 2B, 2 RBIs. Urbana, 1-0, travels to Madison Plains today at 5 p.m. ——— Shawnee 022 104 1 — 10 10 0 London 0 00 000 3 — 3 5 2 Holt, Howell (6) and Hanaway. Wiliams, Silvers (5) and Deaver. HIGHLIGHTS — Shawnee: Jordan 3-3, 3B, 3 RBIs; Howell 2-4; Holt 8 Ks. Reserve: Shawnee 15, London 5. Shawnee, 1-0, plays at Springfield at 1 p.m. Saturday in a doubleheader. ——— East Clinton 320 400 1 — 10 14 0 Greeneview 071 041 x — 13 18 0 Eckler, Bozier (5) and Kibler. Elzey, Sandy (5) and Stahl. HIGHLIGHTS — B. Bornhorst 3-5, 4 RBIs; Partin 2-5, 4 RBIs; Sandy 3-3, 5 RBIs; Elzey 3-4; Raynor 4-4. Greeneview, 1-0, hosts Southeastern at 5 p.m. today. ——— Kenton Ridge 351 27 — 18 16 0 Southeastern 000 00 — 0 1 3 Mamer and Black. Stephens, Rice (3), Saunders (5), Woods (5) and Timmons. HIGHLIGHTS — KR: Hube 2-4, 3 RBIs; Toadvine 2-4; Payton 2B, 2 RBIs; McNeil 3-4, 2B, HR, 3 RBIs; McDuffie 2-5, 2 2Bs, 2 RBIs; Sharpin 3-3, 2B, 2 RBIs; Black 2-4, 2 RBIs. Kenton Ridge, 1-0, plays at Springfield at 5 p.m. today. Southeastern, 0-1, plays at Greeneview at 5 p.m. today. ——— W. Liberty-Salem 250 410 0— 12 6 3 Greenon 200 030 0 — 5 4 3 Hayes, Coleman (7) and Reed. HIGHLIGHTS — WLS: Ropp 2B, 2 RBIs; Hayes 2 RBIs, 8 Ks; Wright 2-3, 2B, 2 RBIs. West Liberty-Salem, 1-0, hosts Catholic Central at 5 p.m. Greenon is 0-1. ——— Mechanicsburg 101 10 — 3 7 9 Shekinah Christian 521 7x — 15 12 5 5 innings; run rule An. Huffman, Frost (4) and Rodgers; Miller, Spires (5) and Yoder. HIGHLIGHTS — M: An. Huffman 2B; Shoaf 2-2, 2B. Mechanicsburg, 0-1, travels to Triad at 5 p.m. today.
Tuesday, Mar. 31
BASEBALL
Belmont at Yellow Springs, 5
Catholic Central at West Liberty-Salem, 5
Fairborn at Tecumseh, 5
Kenton Ridge at Springfield, 5
Northeastern at Cedarville, 5
Southeastern at Greeneview, 5
Mechanicsburg at Triad, 5 Urbana at Madison Plains, 5
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Kenton Ridge impressive in season debut
It’s just one game, but you can’t play much better in your season opener than Kenton Ridge did in beating Southeastern 18-0 on Monday. The Cougars played like a team that has made two straight final four appearances.
No errors, a one-hitter thrown by their sophomore ace Luke Mamer and 16 hits with the 18 runs.
This was Kenton Ridge’s lineup: 1. Derek Toadvine, SS; 2. Michael Bennett, 3B; 3. Randon McNeil, 1B; 4. Jonathan McDuffie, DH/Luke Mamer, SP; 5. Tom Piatt, RF; 6. Ethan Sharpin, CF; 7. Brandon Hube, LF; 8. Ryan Black, C; 9. Travis Blankenship, 2B.
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On this date in area sports history …
Seventeen years ago today, March 31, 1992, the News-Sun published a story about Tecumseh’s Cindy Cremeans being named Clark County Miss Basketball.
CREMEANS NAMED MISS BASKETBALL
GREENON’S ALLISON TOP COUNTY COACH
By Kim Byrum, Sports Writer
As heartfelt emotion trickled down Cindy Cremeans’ face, four years of line drills, lay-ups, and endless shooting sessions flashed before her wet eyes.
Realization of where she’d been and what she’d become rendered her shaky voice all but inaudible.
“I guess I should start off by saying I’m very honored,” the teary-eyed Tecumseh senior said softly after county coaches selected her “Miss Basketball” in a Monday evening banquet at Clark State. “I want to thank my parents for pushing me when I needed pushing … and Coach (Mike) Smart for changing my shot. He’s helped me not just as a player, but as a person.”
Four years ago, Cremeans struggled to get the ball to the rim as a small, unimposing freshman enduring a black-and-blue initiation into varsity competition’s school of hard knocks.
She hinted anything but future star.
“When she first came in as a freshman, she didn’t have a shot. It was more like a heave,” mused Smart, himself a young rookie that year. “She was so small that she had to just throw it up there.
“And she wore kneepads then, too, and now I can see why,” he added. “Looking back, she spent most of her time on the floor.”
But somewhere along the way - between one post-practice session after another - Cremeans found stardom, blossoming from an anemic 2.6 scoring average to 11.3, 14.8 and 16.3 over the next three years.
A weak, scrawny girl had developed into a three-time, MVP athlete her team simply couldn’t do without.
The Arrows, once an area girls basketball doormat of sorts, went on to produce four of the program’s five best seasons during her four-year varsity stay, improving from 14 and 17 wins her first two years to back-to-back 20-4 seasons.
Cremeans, a point guard, will graduate with school records for steals, field goal, free throw and three-point percentage (56, 83 and 43, respectively), and three-pointers in a single game (five).
Smart labels her “the purest shooter” he’s ever coached. “I think it was just having goals that made me stay with it,” Cremeans said, recalling days when her statistics were low but her work ethic high. “To be a successful person you have to set goals. I looked ahead to the future and realized it could be positive if I worked hard enough.”
Joining Cremeans as all-county selections were teammate Kim Deering (Tecumseh), Amanda Bobst and Carrie Ferguson (Southeastern), Jennifer Estep (Kenton Ridge), Megan Foley and Mandy Shepherd (Shawnee), Shannon Hale (Catholic Central), Jackie McCoy (South), and Michelle Terry (North).
Jack Allison, whose Greenon team improved from 6-15 a year ago to 9-12 this season - including a 7-7 slate in a competitive Central Buckeye Conference that included two games each with Division I Tecumseh and Division II state champion Urbana - was named county coach of the year.
“I’m very humbled, overwhelmed, and honored. It’s the ultimate compliment to be honored by your peers,” said Allison, whose team played Urbana within 15 points in second-round CBC action after trailing by just two 28-26, at the end of the third quarter.
“As the year went on, we improved, and it’s nice to see your team get better and end up going out not wanting the season to end.
“I’m the only coach in the state of Ohio who can say he got beat by a state champion three times - twice in the league and once in the tournament,” Allison added, chuckling. “And by the way, Mike, as a fellow CBC coach, I’m not going to miss Kim or Cindy graduating one bit.”
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