Baseball, softball split games at Greenville

The weather held off for the first of two games last week over in Darke County, as Tippecanoe made the trip west on 571 to Greenville to battle the Green Wave in Miami Valley League action.

While the baseball team cruised to another easy victory, the Red Devils softball team suffered their first loss of the season, falling short to the traditionally powerful Wave 2-0 to fall out of the lead in the conference.

Starting with the softball game, Ella Henn had a good day on the mound for Tipp, throwing a complete game quality start giving up only those two runs and walked one batter. The Green Wave did collect eight hits on Henn to keep the pressure on her all game, but the Tipp offense could never get going, only collecting three hits on the night.

Jocelyn Shelton did have two of the hits for Tipp, with the other coming off the bat of Gracie Raiff.

Tipp did leave a runner in scoring position in the opening inning as Raiff was stranded at third base.
Greenville scored their runs early, one each in the second and third innings and withstood any Tipp threat all game. Tipp led another runner at third in the fifth as Shelton singled and moved to third with two outs. Roo Snell was hit by a pitch, but both runners were left without crossing the plate heading to the sixth.

Tipp did have the tying run at the plate in the seventh, but a ground out ended the game for Tipp.

*A five-inning run rule for Tipp moved their record to 9-0 as Tipp defeated Greenville 14-1 last week.

Tipp scored ten runs in the second inning to put the game away.

The Red Devils had 12 hits in the win including three from Bryce Eckert along with three RBIs. Preston Zumwalt added two hits

Cayden McKinney picked up the win for Tipp pitching three innings and only allowing three hits.

In the big ten-run second inning, Tipp Zumwalt drove in a run with a big double early in the inning, Bracy Liskey added a run scoring single, Drew Husic tripled in two runs and Eckert singled in two more runs after Husic scored on a passed ball, and before Greenville knew it, they were trailing Tipp 9-1.

Tipp wasn’t done in the inning. McKinney singled in a run, Landon Muhlenkamp then walked with the bases loaded and an error brought home another run.

In their last four games, Tipp has outscored their opponents 49-3.