Prep Roundup: Springfield baseball starts the season with a tie

SPRINGFIELD — The Springfield High School and Kent Roosevelt baseball teams settled for a 5-5 tie when darkness arrived after eight innings Monday, March 29, the opening day of the spring sports season.

Jordan Moore and Kenny Dixon each had two hits. The Wildcats had 11 hits to Roosevelt’s six.

The game will go down as a suspended game, Springfield coach Rob Cassell said, and it won’t count toward either team’s record. Still, it was a good first test for Springfield.

“We saw their ace, and he’s pretty good,” Cassell said. “I was real impressed with the way we hit the ball the first time out as cold as it was, against a pretty good team. We only had one error.”

The game was arranged Monday afternoon when Springfield’s originally scheduled game with Northeastern was cancelled. Kent Roosevelt was scheduled to play Tecumseh at Wright State, but that game was postponed until 1 p.m. today at the Evans Stadium baseball field.

• Northwestern lost to Pigeon Forge 3-1 on their spring-break trip in Tennessee. Jeremy Noffke went 2-for-3, and Jadon Jenkins went 2-for-4.

Softball

Northwestern split a doubleheader with South Florence, S.C, winning 5-3 and losing 11-4 at a tournament in Orlando.

In the first game, Calli Studebaker went 3-for-3 with a double and Sarah Overholser had two hits and two RBIs. The Warriors scored twice in the fourth and twice more in the fifth to seal the win.

Kallie Coy went 2-for-3 with a double in each game.

Boys tennis

The Urbana doubles team of Will Cole and Grant Thurman didn’t lose a game in first doubles, and the Hillclimbers blanked Tecumseh 5-0.

• Luke Schlicher’s 6-0, 6-0 victory at No. 3 singles highlighted Kenton Ridge’s 4-1 victory over Northwestern.