FRANKLIN FURNACE — The Green Bobcats must like pitchers’ duels. And what they like even better is they keep winning them. Behind the three-hit pitching of Gabe Blevins, the Bobcats blanked the Portsmouth Trojans 1-0 on Thursday. Green has now won three games this season by the score of 1-0 along with a 4-0 win. Blevins struck out six and walked only one to get the complete game win. Trevin Brooks was almost as strong as he gave up four hits, an earned run with eight strikeout

AID — The Symmes Valley Vikings came into this week atop the Southern Ohio Conference Division 2 standings. After two games this week, the Vikings they’re still in first place. The Vikings left little doubt about their position with a 13-2 win over Beaver Eastern Eagles on Monday and they followed that with a 23-2 pounding of the South Gallia Rebels. The Vikings (4-5, 4-0) used the six-hit pitching of Gradee Holland and a 17-hit attack to beat Eastern. Holland struck out six,

COAL GROVE — What do Rolaids and Dawson Philyaw have in common? They’re both great when you need some relief. Philyaw came on to pitch six dominating innings in relief as the Ironton Fighting Tigers beat the Coal Grove Hornets 7-2 in an Ohio Valley Conference game on Wednesday. The senior left-hander gave just two hits and an earned run while striking out 11 of the 18 outs he recorded and did not walk a batter to get the win. Philyaw and starter Jacob Hughes were going to spl