Miller City blanks Rockets

MILLER CITY 12P-GILBOA 0MILLER CITY – Landon Inkrott pitched a one-hit shutout and Miller City remained locked in the logjam atop the Putnam County League baseball standings with a 12-0 win over Pandora-Gilboa.Inkrott, a junior right-hander, allowed one hit, walked one batter and struck out nine. He faced just 17 batters, two over the minimum for a five-inning game. Sam Brannon's single broke up Inkrott's bid for a no-hitter.Max Long and Tanner Verhoff hit two-run home runs to spearhead Miller City's 12-hit attack. Collin Ellerbrock, doubled, tripled and drove in three runs for the Wildcats (9-3, 3-1 PCL) who remained tied with Columbus Grove, which knocked Fort Jennings out of a share of the league lead on Tuesday, and Kalida for first place in the standings. Leipsic, which beat Ottoville 12-0 on Tuesday, and Fort Jennings, are both a game back in the standing s at 2-2.P-Gilboa 000 00—0 1 4Miller City 425 1x—12 12 0WP—Inkrott. LP—Mullins. TOP HITTERS: (P-G) Brannon 1B. (MC) Wenzinger 1B, 2B; Pester 2-1B, 2 RBI; Long HR, 2 RBI; Ellerbrock 2B, 3B, 3 RBI; Verhoff HR, 2 RBI; Tobe 1B, 2B. COL. CRAWFORD 3U. SANDUSKY 0UPPER SANDUSKY – Colonel Crawford's Van Wintersteller pitched a four-hit shutout and the Eagles beat Upper Sandusky 3-0 on Tuesday in a Northern 10 Conference matchup.Wintersteller, a senior right-hander, struck out nine in a complete game win. Brayden Holt had two hits and drove in a run as the Eagles (7-4, 4-2 N10) dropped Upper Sandusky (4-6, 3-2 N10) a notch in the N10 standings.Sylar Jones had two of Upper Sandusky's four hits. Josh Heilman gave up three runs on six hits and struck out eight.C. Crawford 002 100 0—3 6 2U. Sandusky 000 000 0—0 4 2WP—Wintersteller. LP—Heilman. TOP HITTERS: (CC) Holt 2-1B, RBI. (US) Jones 2-1B. RIDGEMONT 7N. BALTIMORE 2NORTH BALTIMORE – Ridgemont built enough of a lead to withstand North Baltimore's late comeback bid and beat the Tigers 7-2 in a Northwest Central Conference contest.North Baltimore pitchers Zander South and Gavin Sesok gave up just six hits and combined for nine strikeouts. Ridgemont (6-4-1, 4-0-1 NWCC) scored at least one run in five innings, though, in building a 5-0 lead.South also had a single and a double at the plate, Sesok had an RBI single, and Zech Boyd-Reyes doubled and scored a run for NB (5-6, 2-2 NWCC).Ridgemont 110 201 2—7 6 0N. Baltimore 000 001 1—2 5 6WP—Moore. LP—South. TOP HITTERS: (Rid) Moore 1B, RBI; Thompson 1B, RBI; Woodruff 1B, RBI. (NB) South 1B, 2B; Sesok 1B, RBI; Boyd-Reyes 2B. VAN BUREN 8LAKOTA 0VAN BUREN – Reid Cramer pitched a five-hitter and his Van Buren teammates backed him with errorless defense when the Black Knights blanked Lakota 8-0 on Tuesday.Cramer struck out six in the complete game win. Will Rampe (1B, 3B, RBI), Brady Lance (1B, 2B, 3 RBI), Caleb Mason (1B, RBI) and Jacob Harrington (2B, RBI) led the offense for Van Buren (8-4).Lakota 000 000 0—0 5 1Van Buren 220 004 x—8 8 0WP—Cramer. LP—Kern. TOP HITTERS: (VB) Rampe 1B, 3B, RBI; Lance 1B, 2B, 3 RBI; Mason 1B, RBI; Harrington 2B, RBI. COL. GROVE 4FT. JENNINGS 0FORT JENNINGS – Columbus Grove's Brady Basinger got it done on the mound and at the plate in Columbus Grove's 4-0 Putnam county League win over Fort Jennings.A 6-foot-2 junior lefthander, Basinger gave up just two hits and struck out 14 Fort Jennings batters. At the plate, he singled, homered and drove in three runs for the Bulldogs (8-4, 3-1 PCL).Col Grove 200 020 0—4 7 0Ft. Jennings 000 000 0—0 2 4WP—Bsinger. LP—Gasser. TOP HITTERS: (CG) Meyer 2B; Basinger 1B, HR, 3 RBI. O-GLANDORF 11WAPAKONETA 8OTTAWA – Jordan Schumaker and Landon Pester lashed three hits each and combined to score five runs in Ottawa-Glandorf's 11-8 Western Buckeye League win over Wapakoneta.Haiden Aldrich and Adam Maag both doubled and drove in two runs and Mason Trombley had two singles and an RBI for the Titans (6-4, 3-1 WBL).Griffin Mericle (1B, 2B, 2 RBI), Drew Bailey (2-1B) and Zach Fisher (2-1B) all had two hits for Wapakoneta (4-5-1, 1-3-1 WBL). H. NORTHERN 7TEMPLE CH. 2DOLA – Karter Terhark lined three hits and drove in three runs in Hardin Northern's 7-2 Northwest Central Conference win over Lima Temple Christian.Brady Robey had two base hits and Corbin Blair and Jon Henicle added RBI singles for Hardin Northern. RIDGEDALE 14CORY-RAWSON 9RAWSON – Ridgedale remained unbeaten in Northwest Central Conference games, but the Rockets needed to amp up the offense to do it by outscoring Cory-Rawson in a 14-9 slugfest on Tuesday.Ridgedale is 6-1 overall and 3-0 in the NWCC. Cory-Rawson is 2-7, 1-4 in the league.