GALLIPOLIS — What started as a softball game turned into a marathon as the South Point Lady Pointers outlasted the Gallia Academy Blue Angels 7-5 in a 13 innings. Kota Copley pitched the complete game as she struck out a whopping 23 batters and threw 179 pitches, 127 for strikes. She gave up 9 hits, 5 runs, 4 earned runs, and walked only 4. South Point (15-6, 8-2) had 9 hits with Kaylee Stidham going 3-6 with an RBI, Kyleigh Castle 2-4 with an RBI, Adyson Copley 1-3 and Chloe

OAK HILL — It was the group Chicago that sang, “Feeling Stronger Every Day.” Barrett Waginger was feeling stronger every inning. After a shaky first inning, the St. Joseph Flyers’ freshman pitcher held the Oak Hill Oaks in check in a 6-1 win on Thursday. "We came out pretty flat at the start. But we managed to wake up around the third inning and get some runs to get some separation," said Flyers coach Nick Medinger. Waginger allowed just 4 hits as he gave up an earned run in

PORTSMOUTH — That’s a tie. Now we can think about being greedy. The Green Bobcats used the 3-hit pitching of Gabe Blevins to blank the Portsmouth Notre Dame Titans 7-0 on Thursday and clinch at least a share of the Southern Ohio Conference-1 title. "We woke our bats up tonight," Bobcats coach Dave Shoupe. We told the boys before the game that we needed to go back to the aggressive mentality we had at the beginning of the season and they listened. Green is 16-2 on the season a