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April 18th
WALKERTON — The John Glenn baseball team found its return home to the Falcon Nest to its liking Wednesday.
Justin Gierlowski pitched a one-hit shutout in six innings of work, and Glenn batters scratched out runs in all but one inning as the Falcons celebrated their homecoming after 12 days on the road with a 10-0, six-inning diming of the visiting Triton Trojans in a Northern State Conference game in Walkerton.
Softball
Lady Trojans survive John Glenn rally
John Glenn plated two runs in the top of the seventh, but it wasn’t enough to crawl back from an early five-run deficit, and Triton escaped the Falcons in a 7-6 Northern State Conference thriller in Bourbon Wednesday.
Glenn scored on a single by Holly Adams and an error in the fourth inning, a groundout by Brittany Snodgrass in the fifth inning, and a two-run error in the seventh inning. Still, Glenn couldn’t catch the Trojans.
April 17th
PLYMOUTH — Winning your conference-opener always feels good.
When it’s a win over your bitter rival, it feels even better. And when it’s a complete shutout, it’s downright terrific.
Plymouth No. 2 Mikayla German battled back from a second-set loss to hand Warsaw’s Sarah Boyle a 7-4 defeat in a third set tiebreaker Tuesday, thus completing a 5-0 whitewashing of the visiting Tigers in a Northern Lakes Conference-opening girls tennis meet in Centennial Park.
Girls track
Lady Pilgrims split NLC 3-way
Plymouth’s girls track team split a Northern Lakes Conference three-way with Elkhart Memorial and Wawasee Tuesday, beating Wawasee 88-44 but falling to Memorial 78-54.
Allie Wright recorded a pair of wins in the 200 and the 1600 relay, and she, Meagan Fisher, Shelby Harrell and Libby Read finished just .24 of a second off Memorial’s winning 3200 relay time of 10:16.02.
Katelyn O’Neal won the 300 low hurdles, and Traci Longanecker won the 100 dash.
April 16th
PLYMOUTH — Another grey spring day in Indiana led to another grey spring game of baseball, with Elkhart Memorial taking a Northern Lakes Conference-opening night win over Plymouth at Bill Nixon Field by a 6-3 final.
The Chargers had their way for much of the day behind the right arm of Scottie Clark, who went five for Memorial surrendering just two hits and no runs.
PLYMOUTH — Plymouth entered Monday’s Northern Lakes Conference opener hoping to parlay its first win of the season over the weekend into some early momentum. Instead it was the Chargers who jumped off to a fast start.
BREMEN — On a night when the rain, wind and cold affected the game from the start, John Glenn’s bats came out on fire. After a middle inning rally by the Lions, Falcons reliever Michael Holderread shut the door in the fifth, and Glenn handed host Bremen a 14-6 Northern State Conference loss Monday.
Trailing 7-2 after a big six-inning first by Glenn, the Lions cut into the deficit with three runs in the bottom half of the fourth as Tyler Coffel and Jacob Bennitt both drew walks followed by a long triple from Dillon Mullen, who scored on a wild pitch to bring the score to 7-5.
Softball
Jennings Ks 13 in shutout of Knox
Mallorie Jennings fanned 13 in a complete-game shutout to lift the Triton softball team to an 11-0 Northern State Conference-opening win at Knox Monday.
Jennings gave up just two hits over seven shutout innings.
Meanwhile, the Trojans easily handled Knox’s pitching as six hitters combined for 12 hits, 10 RBIs and eight runs scored.
The offense exploded for the Trojans in the sixth as they scored six runs.
Halie Zimmerman racked up two RBIs on two hits for the Trojans. She doubled in the second inning and singled in the sixth inning.
April 15th
LaVille’s Zach Gurtner shot a 75 at Black Squirrel Saturday to tie for low-medalist honors at the Goshen Golf Invitational.
Plymouth's Morgan O'Neil went 3-for-4 with a double, two RBI and four stolen bases, and she put the Lady Pilgrims on the board as they earned their first win of the season Friday.
