Southwestern (Hanover) claimed the team championship at the ORVC Golf Tournament at Sunrise Golf Course in Madison on Saturday. The Rebels as a team shot a 343; second place Jac-Cen-Del fired a 360, and Switzerland County carded a 374. Ethan Clark of Milan took medalist honors with a three-over-par-75.
The 77th annual Batesville Invitational went to the host Bulldogs on Saturday at Hillcrest Country Club. Batesville as a team fired a 325; Franklin County was 4th with a 342; and Greensburg came in 11th at 388. Oldenburg Academy did not field a complete team.
Batesville won both ends of the Connersville middle school track and field meet on Saturday. The Bulldog boys finished with 178 points. St, Louis came in 6th with 43…In the girls meet, BMS came in 1st with 171 points. The Cardinals were 5th with 43.
The Reds blanked the Houston Astros 5-0 in the series finale at Great American Ball Park heard yesterday on WRBI. Cincinnati takes two out of three games in the series. Andrew Abbott tossed six scoreless innings of three hit baseball while walking one and striking out five. He gets the win and evens his record at 2-2. Three Reds relievers – Tejay Antone, Sam Moll, and Graham Ashcraft – combined to throw three shutout innings without a hit. JJ Bleday tripled home two runs in the Reds three-run 4th inning. He also walked twice. Spencer Steer clubbed a solo home run in the 6th for his seventh big fly of the season. Elly De La Cruz went 3-for-4 with a stolen base and a run scored. And Tyler Stephenson had an RBI single in the 7th inning. The Reds have the day off before starting a three-game series at GABP tomorrow night against the Washington Nationals. Airtime tomorrow night is 6:10 on 103.9 FM.
The NBA Draft Lottery did not go as the Indiana Pacers would have hoped on Sunday. Despite having the better odds of landing a top-four pick, they came up short. This means their first-round pick for the 2026 draft will go to the Los Angeles Clippers following the February trade at the deadline for center Ivica Zubac. It also means the Pacers will not have any picks in this year’s draft. Pacers president Kevin Pritchard said he doesn’t have second thoughts about the trade for Zubac. “We needed to fill a hole at center,” Prichard said. Washington will get the top pick in next month’s draft, followed by Utah, Memphis, and Chicago to round out the top four.
