Baseball

GALION — Jay Luikart will take his place among the best of the Great Lakes Summer Collegiate League. The Galion Graders center fielder was chosen to play in the GLSCL All-Star Game on July 20 at Prasco Park in Mason when the league announced its all-star selections Monday. A Hillsdale graduate and sophomore at Wright […]

MADISON TOWNSHIP — Zane Harris doesn’t especially care for the seafood, but the 2016 Madison graduate likes just about everything else about his summer work study program. A redshirt senior at Wright State University, Harris is the first baseman for the Hyannis (Mass.) Harbor Hawks of the Cape Cod Baseball League. The Cape Cod League […]

GALION — When he filled out his lineup card on June 27, Galion Graders manager Mike O’Leary must have felt like a Little League coach. His starting pitcher, Hillsdale product Jay Luikart, was also his clean-up hitter — an occurrence not unusual in youth baseball but a rarity in the Great Lakes Summer Collegiate League. […]

GALION — Storm clouds had begun to gather by the time the Galion Graders finished batting practice Sunday afternoon at Heise Park. The Graders were scheduled to host the Royal Oak (Michigan) Leprechauns in a Great Lakes Summer Collegiate League North Division game, but a powerful line of thunderstorms was about to rumble across Crawford […]

NORTH ROBINSON — Drayton Burkhart’s sophomore season was extraordinary. His senior season was historic. The Richland Source Pitcher of the Year, Burkhart had arguably the greatest season in the brief history of the Northern 10 Athletic Conference. He was 13-1 with 108 strikeouts and a 1.60 earned run average. His 13 wins and 108 strikeouts […]

SHELBY — Marshall Shepherd put an exclamation point on a historic junior year. The Richland Source Baseball Player of the Year, Shepherd helped the Whippets win a share of the Mid-Ohio Athletic Conference crown this spring. Shelby was 21-2 and shared the MOAC title with Ontario. Shepherd, who was selected the MOAC Player of the […]

MANSFIELD — The postseason awards keep piling up for Lexington’s Chase Carter. The senior catcher was selected to the All-Ohio first team in Division II late last week. Carter, who was the District 9 Player of the Year in Division II, was one of eight north central athletes chosen to the Ohio High School Baseball […]