Thursday tournament gameslate Division III Southeast District Softball Semifinals No. 4 West vs. No. 1 Wellston 4:30 p.m. at Unioto High School No. 3 Wheelersburg vs. No. 2 Sardinia Eastern 6 p.m. at Unioto High School Division IV Southeast District Softball Semifinal No. 4 Crooksville vs. No. 1 Clay at Minford Division III District Track and Field Tournament at Oak Hill Local schools competing include Clay, Eastern, Glenwood, Green, Notre Dame, Oak Hill, Peeb...
Division II Southeast District Track Tourney underway By BOB STRICKLEY PDT Sports Editor Portsmouth, Minford, Northwest and West all competed in the first day of the Division II District Track and Field Tournament at Oak Hill on Tuesday, while Waverly and Piketon competed in the other half of the District Tournament at Washington Court House Tuesday and Wednesday. Seven final events were tallied as of Tuesday, three on the girls side and four on the boys, with many local teams and athletes re...
Sports Briefs To place an item in the calendar please email pdtsports@portsmouth-dailytimes.com or call 740-353-3101 ext. 242. Passport to Fishing Program An Ohio Division of Wildlife Passport to Fishing program will be held May 26 from 10 a.m. until 12 p.m. at the Shawnee State Park Nature Center located at Turkey Creek Lake on State Route 125 in West Portsmouth. The Passport to Fishing program is part of the Division’s Aquatic Education Program ...
Valley softball No. 1 in Div. III, Clay No. 7 in Div. IV PDT Sports Report District Tournaments are underway and four local teams remain in the top 10 of the fifth edition of the Ohio softball and baseball coaches polls. Valley, the No. 1 seed in the Southeast Softball District Tournament, is also back to being the No. 1 team in Division III according to the state’s coaches. Clay softball was voted into the No. 7 slot in Division IV as they prepare for their semifinal game. Valley softball ...
Greenup’s Smith to tee off for Pikeville By BOB STRICKLEY PDT Sports Editor GREENUP, Ky. — Tyler Smith stood in front of his Greenup County High School classmates Tuesday afternoon and took a deep breath. He wasn’t about to solve a geometry problem or recite Spanish conjugations, he was about to sign a piece of paper ensuring his education and golf career would continue. After an outstanding run as a Musketeer golfer, Smith took a moment to thank those in attendance and even t...
Wednesday tournament gameslate Division III Southeast District Softball Semifinals No. 4 Fairland vs. No. 1 Valley at Unioto 4:30 p.m. No. 7 Minford vs. No. 3 Zane Trace at Unioto 6 p.m. Division IV Southeast District Baseball Final No. 3 Whiteoak vs. No. 1 Valley at V.A. Memorial 7 p.m. Division III Southeast District Track Tournament Local teams competing at Oak Hill include Clay, Eastern Pike, Glenwood, Green, Notre Dame, Oak Hill, Peebles, West, East, South...
Notre Dame advances to finals with 7-4 win By CODY LEIST PDT Sports Writer MINFORD — It was a slow start offensively to start the season for Jen Arnzen. That was then, this is now. The junior right fielder hit a grand slam off the first pitch she was thrown in the first inning of Tuesday’s Division IV Southeast District softball semifinal and gave No. 4 Notre Dame a lead the Lady Titans would not relinquish in a 7-4 win over No. 1 Reedsville Eastern at Minford High School. “Bi...
Tuesday tournament gameslate Division IV Southeast District Softball No. 4 Notre Dame vs. No. 1 Reedsville Eastern 4:30 p.m. at Minford Division II Southeast District Baseball No. 5 Miami Trace vs. No. 3 Waverly 7 p.m. at V.A. Memorial Stadium NOTES: All events subject to change for weather-related postponements. For up-to-date information, follow Sports Editor Bob Strickley (@rjstrickleyjr), Sports Writer Cody Leist (@CodyLeist) or the PDTSports (@pdtsports) o...
Valley catches fire in 5th for 6-0 win over Trimble By CODY LEIST PDT Sports Writer CHILLICOTHE — It takes one little crack to break the dam. That is how top-seeded Valley drew first blood Sunday in its Division IV Southeast District Semifinal baseball game at VA Memorial Stadium. When it was all said and done in the fifth inning, the Indians sent 10 to the plate as five of them scored and Valley advanced with a 6-0 win over No. 5 Trimble. “The biggest thing was that we started down th...
Troublesome 8th inning downs Bobcats By CODY LEIST PDT Sports Writer CHILLICOTHE—Karma was on the side of No. 2 Green Sunday night in its Division IV Southeast District Semifinal baseball game at VA Memorial Stadium. Then it went away. And when it did, the wheels fell off for the Bobcats. No. 3 Whiteoak took advantage of six Green errors in the top of the eighth for a 9-3 win in eight innings. “I lost my composure and I think that probably rubbed off on the kids,” Bobc...
Carrier dominates again at SOS SOS Release WHEELERSBURG — It was a great night of racing at the Southern Ohio Speedway Friday as a total of 66 cars and a large crowd was in attendance. Salt Rock (WV) native Eddie Carrier Jr. led the field to the green flag to start the night’s 25-lap Late Model A-Main. Carrier held off challenges from Rod Conley in the midpoint of the race to lead all 25 laps and take his third feature win of the season. Conley finished second with R...
Bailey’s no-no sends West to districts PDT Sports Report Tate Bailey threw his first no-hitter as host and No. 2 West defeated No. 10 Chesapeake 10-0 in a Division III Southeast Sectional Final. Bailey allowed two walks while striking out 12 in the contest for his fifth win of the season. No Panther runner reached second base in the game. Tas Shupert and Corey Summers wer both 2-for-3 at the plate. West travels Friday to VA Memorial Stadium in Chillicothe for a Division III So...
Arnzen’s heroics leads ND to districts PDT Sports Report Jen Arnzen’s walk-off hit in the seventh helped host and No. 4 Notre Dame defeat No. 5 Green 3-2 in a Division IV Southeast Sectional Final. Arzen hit her second double of the game when she knocked in Brooke Pierron and Miranda Pauley to end the game. The Lady Titans play top-seeded Reedsville Eastern Tuesday at Minford. Green 1 0 1 0 0 0 1 — 2 2 2 Notre Dame 0 0 0 0 1 0 2 — 3 6 2 Green — Crawford 1-3, McCallister 1-3,...
Keep both hands on the wheel Someone wrote to ask about the Ghost of Hansen’s Bend, which I had mentioned in a previous column. The bend, on an incline, was at the mouth of South Portsmouth Schoolhouse Hollow, which ties into Route 8 near the Kentucky approach to the Carl Perkins Memorial Bridge. A construction project in 1986 built up the roadway to eliminate the hill, widened it to four lanes, and straightened the curve. All of this evidently motivated the ghost to...
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