Greencastle, Cloverdale pick up multiple wins in final week of regular season; North Putnam, South Putnam, Clovers close final week with wins

Baseball

Greencastle 9, Brown County 3

The Tiger Cubs scored in every inning but the fifth to take care of the Eagles Thursday evening.

Nathan Sutherlin hit an RBI sac fly in the first, as would Owen Huff in the second, before adding an RBI groundout in the third. Bryton Gregg doubled in a second run in the inning for a 4-0 lead.

Trevin Long hit the third Greencastle RBI sac fly to add a run in the fourth though the lead was reduced to 5-3 after five innings after Jade Woolems drove in one run while Mikey Kobernick plated two runs with a single.

An error allowed Huff to score in the sixth while Sutherlin singled in a run to make it 7-3. Huff drove in two more runs in the seventh to secure the win.

Greencastle 5, Parke Heritage 2

The first game of a Friday doubleheader, the Tiger Cubs scored all five runs in the fifth inning to turn a 2-0 deficit around.

Kyle Harpold put Parke Heritage on the board in the third with a single while Josiah Heck drove in a run with a double in the fifth, one of his three extra-base hits on the night, to make it 2-0.

Jayce Spidel started the rally in the bottom of the inning, hitting a bases-loaded single to push one run across before Sam Gooch forced a run in with a walk.

Sutherlin singled in the third run while Ashton Dayhuff hit a sac fly and Treyten Clark singled to make it 5-2, a lead that held the remainder of the game.

Greencastle 4, South Putnam 2

The second game of a Friday doubleheader, the Tiger Cubs kept the Eagles in check for five innings before the visitors had the bases loaded in the sixth but only pushed one run across.

Sutherlin got the home team on the board in the first with an RBI triple, though the sophomore would be stranded there as Greencastle led 1-0 after an inning.

Gregg added an RBI groundout in the third while Sutherlin tripled again to bring in a second run, though similar to the first he was left there.

Sutherlin added an RBI groundout in the fifth to make it 4-0 before South Putnam loaded the bases with one out in the sixth.

Kenny McDaniel singled to plate a run but Huff came in to relieve Sutherlin on the mound and struck out Wyatt Mullin and Kyle Glasson to get out of the jam.

Isayah Hardwick singled in a run in the seventh but was out going for third on a Hayden Tincher single to end the game.

Cloverdale 13, Dugger Union 3 (5)

The Clovers hit the Bulldogs for eight runs in the first inning Thursday and added on in the second and fourth for the run-rule win.

Seven different Cloverdale batters brought in a run with Tyson Bridges, Drake Hoffa and Caiden Watts knocking in two runs each, while Tayt Jackson, Layton Allen, Jamee Tomas and Landon Duncan each drove in a run.

Hoffa and Duncan each had a triple on the night.

Cloverdale 5, Brown County 3

The Clovers followed Thursday’s win by beating the Eagles Friday night, scoring three runs in the second inning and adding scores in the fifth and sixth to secure the win.

Bridges doubled home a pair of runs to get the hosts on board with Trey Schabel knocking home a third run for a 3-0 lead after two innings.

Justin Terril and Mikey Kobernick answered with RBI singles in the third to cut the lead to 3-2.

Watts added a run on a sac fly in the fifth, a run pulled back by a Jade Woolems sac fly in the sixth, but Hoffa doubled in an insurance run in the bottom of the inning and Brown County had no answers left in the seventh.

South Vermillion 6, Cloverdale 1

The Clovers’ two-game win streak ended Saturday as the Wildcats took a 2-1 lead after an inning and played add-on in three of their five remaining at-bats.

Corey Branigan singled in a run in the top of the first but a pair of RBI groundouts from Bryson Lemmons and Dallas Coleman gave the hosts a 2-1 lead.

John Smith singled in a run in the third while an error and wild pitch gave South Vermillion two extra runs for free in the fifth.

Another error in the sixth took the score out of slam territory as Cloverdale fell in its final game before sectional play begins.

Softball

Edgewood 10, North Putnam 0 (6)

The Mustangs opened with three runs in the first and added five more in the third, scoring in the fifth and sixth to get the run-rule win Thursday.

Ava Laroche had five RBIs on the night, four coming on a grand slam in the third. Ally Bland drove in two runs while Madi Bland had three hits.

Hailee Daigle had two hits to lead the Cougar offense.

North Putnam 5, Monrovia 3

A much better result came for the Cougars Friday night on the road as a three-run second inning helped negate the Bulldogs, who kept chipping away late in the game but ran out of time to close the gap.

North Putnam got the first of three runs in the second on an error while Khloe Wilhite had an RBI groundout and Hailee Daigle singled in the third run.

The visitors added a run in the fourth on a Wilhite sac bunt for a 4-0 lead.

Pipe Carpenter got Monrovia on the board with an RBI double in the fifth though Wilhite restored the four-run lead with an RBI groundout in the sixth.

The Bulldogs got a second run in the sixth on an Avery Wolfe single and made it 5-3 on an Emma Holdsclaw sac bunt but popped out in the next at-bat to end the game.

South Putnam 4, Northview 1

After winning the Paddle off Greencastle, the Eagles closed the regular season with a win over the Knights on Friday.

South Putnam scored on a wild pitch in the third for a 1-0 lead that held up until the sixth when the hosts tacked on three more runs.

Two runs came in on an error while Carlie Thompson hit a sac fly that made it 4-0.

Jenna Thompson singled in a run for Northview in the seventh to break up the shutout.

Cloverdale 4, Brown County 3 (8)

The Clovers scored in the seventh to send the game to extra innings and Keelie Price walked off to give the hosts a win on Friday in their final game before sectional play opens.

Chloe Polling doubled in a run for the visitors in the second for a 1-0 lead that lasted until an Abi Welton home run to lead off the bottom of the fourth.

Brown County scored twice in the fifth on an Abrielle Sanders single and error to take a 3-1 lead though Paisley Meyerrose halved the gap in the bottom of the inning with a solo home run.

Dakota Allee tied the game with a single in the seventh and Price, with the bases loaded and two outs in the eighth, singled to bring home Emma Wynia for the winning run.