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April 19th, 2013
Persistent rain throughout the area and saturated grounds made for another round of postponements and cancellations Thursday night.
The majority of those events have yet to be rescheduled, and in addition to the changes forced by the ongoing inclement weather, there were two changes to area teams’ athletic schedules for non-weather related reasons announced Thursday.
College softball
Chargers shut out on the road in Lansing
Due to lightning and thunderstorms in the Lansing area, the Ancilla College softball team was only able to play the first game of a doubleheader against Lansing Community College, losing 2-0.
Plymouth alum Marissa Sullivan picked up a tough loss, allowing just two runs on nine hits, holding Lansing to its lowest run total in a win all season.
Ancilla scattered six hits in the contest, two by Kayleigh Schroeder.
April 18th
PLYMOUTH — Plymouth’s Pilgrims beat Mother Nature’s rain but couldn’t hold off Concord’s rain of runs as they fell in an NLC contest by a 12-0 final Wednesday.
While the final speaks of something different, the game really focused on one play — a third inning bunt that turned into a flood of runs that would put Plymouth behind the eight ball for the rest of the night — literally.
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.
