At the East Central cross-country invitational on Saturday, the Trojans Callie Bentley broke the meet record with a time of 18:45. EC takes the championship trophy with 22 points, followed by Batesville with 33. On the JV side, the Bulldogs Bailegh Demaree led the way with the first-place finish at 21:39. In the boys’ race, Batesville’s Jake Chapman came in first with a personal best time of 16:23. The Bulldogs finished with 18 points, followed by the host Trojans with 49. The Batesville JV team had the top three finishers in Brody Gibson, Landon Raver and Ryan Benz, respectively.
Greensburg junior high cross country won the girls invitational at Ceraland in Columbus on Saturday. The Pirate boys finished 10th out of 22 teams.
The Batesville JV volleyball team took part in the Hauser tournament on Saturday. The Bulldogs fell in three sets to Columbus North, defeated Herron in two sets, beat Connersville in three sets and knocked off Columbus North “B” in three sets.
The Reds shut out the Braves in Atlanta 1-0 last night in a makeup game from a July 24 rainout. The win counts as a sweep for Cincinnati after the Reds won the first two games of the series in July. Nick Martinez pitched seven scoreless innings of two-hit baseball, striking out five and allowing just three base runners. At one point, Martinez retired 17 Braves in a row, and ended up retiring 21 of the 24 batters he faced. The lone run of the game came off the bat of Ty France, whose RBI double plated TJ Friedl. The Reds open a three-game series tonight in St. Louis against the Cardinals. Coverage begins at 7:15 on 103.9 WRBI.
Reds reliever Brent Suter is the team’s nominee for the Roberto Clemente Award. That award is given annually to the major league player who best represents the game of baseball both on and off the field through extraordinary character, community involvement, philanthropy and positive contributions. You can find a link to vote for Suter on Reds.com.
On Monday Night Football, it was the San Francisco 49ers over the New York Jets 32-19.