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Thurik leads way for Beaver Local

Beaver Local 4, Harrison Central 1 CALCUTTA — Beaver Local pitcher Addie Thurik allowed a leadoff home run to Mikayla Pelegreen and shut down Harrison Central the rest of the way in the Beavers’ 4-1 win Thursday. Thurik allowed only three other singles and struck out eight with no walks in the winning effort. She also collected two hits and scored a run. Gianna Congrove had a two-run-single in the second inning and Macie Bourne had two singles and scored a run. Pelegreen took the loss, giving up three earned runs on seven hits with nine strikeouts and two walks. Beaver ...

Heartland drops Wellsville, 26-6

Heartland Christian 26, Wellsville 6 WELLSVILLE — Hudson Miller drove in six runs and scored five and Paul Bender scored six runs in leading Heartland Christian past Wellsville, 26-6, in five innings Thursday. Bender had two doubles and a single and Miller singled twice and doubled. Jacob Goehring drove in five runs as he doubled and singled. Jack Morgan added three runs. Ethan Morris topped Wellsville with a double. The Tigers walked 15 Heartland batters and gave up 14 unearned runs. Heartland (1-3) will play at East Palestine today. Wellsville (0-4) will host East ...

Southern beats Wellsville in bottom of the seventh

Southern 14, Wellsville 13 SALINEVILLE — Mason Sosack doubled in the game-winning run in the bottom of the seventh inning to give Southern a 14-13 win over Wellsville on Wednesday. Sosack had drove in five runs on three hits. Landen Heffner scored four runs, while Zac Mayfield and Preston ...

Curtis leads Beaver Local

Beaver Local 19, Brooke 1 CALCUTTA — Brylee Curtis went 4-for-4 and accounted for 10 runs in leading Beaver Local past Brooke, 19-1, in five innings Wednesday. Curtis drove in six runs — including a two-run single in the second inning and a two-run triple in the fourth inning — and scored four more. She added a double and a single. The Beavers collected 18 hits, including nine for extra bases. Addie Thurik also went 4-for-4 with two doubles and four runs.Ciara Call homered and doubled with two RBIs and two runs. Ally Wright homered and singled with three Rbis and two runs. ...

O’Rourke guides Potters to extra inning win

EAST LIVERPOOL — Meadow O’Rourke’s RBI single scored Addie Jones in the 10th inning to lead East Liverpool to an 8-7 win over Lisbon on Tuesday at Patterson Field. Lisbon was up 5-0 in the fifth inning before the Potters took the lead with six runs in the bottom of the sixth. Jones ...

Bears slowed by Riders

WEIRTON, W.Va. — Weir ace Aleks Zanieski was on top of his game on the mound, and his batterymate delivered two big hits to break the game open. Zanieski struck out seven batters through three innings, including five straight at one point, and Liam Williamson two doubles and five RBI leading the Weir baseball team to a 12-1 victory against Oak Glen via mercy rule in four-and-a-half innings Tuesday evening up at the Weir High Baseball Field. “Everybody hit the ball,” Weir (5-7) head coach Dave Cowden said. “Zanieski was out for a couple of weeks. He was injured. I wasn’t ...