Jim’s Journal, January 26th, 2024

Lots of girls’ high school hoops wrapped up the regular season last night, before next week’s sectionals.  On WRBI, Oldenburg Academy’s Twisters blew through Switzerland County, 58 to 41. Other scores include Greensburg crushing Lawrenceburg 68 to 19, North Decatur all over Edinburgh 63 to 20, Waldron topping Milan 62 to 45, and Southwestern Hanover just getting by Jac-Cen-Del, 50 to 46.

Coming up tonight, it’s boys’ play around the region…  East Central welcomes Columbus East…  Lawrenceburg is at Greensburg…  Oldenburg Academy goes to Jac-Cen-Del…  South Dearborn at Rushville, South Decatur at Hauser…  Southwestern Hanover at Miland, Victory College Prep at Franklin County, and the game you’ll hear on WRBI, North Decatur visiting Batesville, tipping off at 7:30, pregame around 7:15.

There’s a lot of buzz about the upcoming baseball season, after the Reds made multiple off-season moves to better compete in the National League. One of the biggest and most recent, just last week, was acquiring left-handed pitcher Brent Suter from the Rockies, with a 2 ½-million-dollar 1-year deal, and a club option for ’25. Brent enthusiastically tells WRBI he’s thrilled to now literally be playing—  at home, since he lives only 15 minutes away from Great American Ballpark.  Baseball operations President Nick Krall says adding Suter to the bullpen gives the Reds more depth and flexibility. You can hear how it all works out through the season here on your Reds station, WRBI. The year’s first spring training game’s just under a month away now, on February 24th.

And the Bengals took care of that opening they had at offensive coordinator after Brian Callahan got hired away to coach the Titans…  the new leader of offense in Cincinnati will be previous quarterbacks coach Dan Pitcher.