Baseball/Softball

HU baseball starts with a win

By Rick Henly on Friday, February 26th, 2010

Submitted by Joanne Green

Baseball – 2/25
The Foresters (1-0) opened their spring season on the road at Freed-Hardeman University (4-4) in Tennessee and came away with the convincing 11-6 victory.

With two outs in the second, HU put four runs on the board to take the early lead... Read More...

Meet the HU baseball team on Feb. 20

By Rick Henly on Thursday, February 11th, 2010

HUNTINGTON, IN - The Huntington University baseball team will host its second annual "Meet the Team" night on Saturday, February 20, 2010 at 6:00 p.m.  The event will take place at the Huntington University Habecker Dining Commons.  Cost for the event is $25 per person.

The evening's activities will include an opportunity to meet the 2010 Forester baseball team and coaching staff, a dinner and both a silent and live auction... Read More...

Cougars comeback against Northfield

By Lamont Neal on Thursday, January 28th, 2010

In Wednesday night boys middle school action Crestview took a trip to visit Northfield.

In the seventh grade game Northfield jumped out to an early lead. Northfields zone seamed to confuse the Cougars and Norhtfield was getting some easy looks on the offensive end. In the second half the Cougars cranked up the pressure on the ball and stating forcing some turnovers... Read More...

Crestview splits with Norwell

By Lamont Neal on Sunday, January 17th, 2010

Crestview boys took on Norwell on Thursday evening Jan 14th. In seventh grade action the Cougars jumped out to the early lead and maintained the advantage thru the end of the third quarter with a 20-16 lead. In the fourth quarter Norwell cranked up the defensive pressure and cut into the lead. Norwell hit a three with less than a minute to go to take a 23-22 lead then pushed their lead to 25-22... Read More...

Cougars drop Rebels

By Lamont Neal on Thursday, January 14th, 2010

Crestview boy’s basketball hosted the Salamonie Rebels on Tuesday January 13th. The seventh grade Cougars jumped out to an early lead and held the margin the rest of the way for the 44-27 victory pushing their record to 10-3.

For the Cougars, Caleb Landrum scored 18, Jordon Seabolt 8, Adam Woods 4, Silas Clark 3 and Rick Wedlake 3 points... Read More...

Woodside drops the Cougars

By Lamont Neal on Wednesday, January 6th, 2010

Crestview Seventh and Eighth grade boys came back from break to face a couple of tough Woodside middle school teams.
While the Cougars were looking a little rusty from the break Woodside was applying the pressure. The seventh grade final ended up 33-40 dropping the Cougars to 8 wins versus 3 losses for the year... Read More...

Crestview Invitational

By Lamont Neal on Monday, December 14th, 2009

In Crestview Invitational action on Saturday the Cougar seventh grade opened the action against Southern Wells.   Crestview opened the game with a flurry then cruised the rest of the way maintaining a double-digit lead with the final score Cougars 49 Southern Wells 39, pushing their record to 5-2 and into the finals... Read More...

HNHS Baseball Camp

By Jeff Hoover on Wednesday, December 2nd, 2009

The Huntington North baseball team is holding their annual baseball camp this Saturday and next to give kids a chance to keep a few skills sharp, learn a little more about the game, and be exposed to some of the Huntington North ways of doing things.  The instruction is provided by the Huntington North baseball coaching staff and current baseball players in the Viking program (these instructors will be easily identified by being in full uniform)... Read More...

Holiday baseball camp in December

By Rick Henly on Tuesday, November 10th, 2009

HUNTINGTON, IN—The Huntington University baseball team will host the 2009 Holiday Baseball Camp on Dec. 29-30 from 9:30 a.m. to noon at the Merillat Complex for Physical Education and Recreation.

The team invites boys ages 8-14 to participate. To attend the camp, participants need to complete a registration form and send it along with a payment of $55 per child... Read More...

Hill Toppers end season on good note

By Rick Henly on Tuesday, October 13th, 2009

By Ace Reporter, Gib Young

Oct. 10, Camp Orville, Hartford City, Ind.

With the smoke of a hundred circling campfires drifting in and the sound of bugles and drill orders in the air the local boys once again met their honored rivals from Cincinnati – the Buckeyes to do Base Ball battle... Read More...

Local boys sweep Pioneer Tournament

By Rick Henly on Monday, September 28th, 2009

Submitted by Ace Reporter, Gib Young

On the 19th the boys from Huntington returned to the county bearing the Portage Iron Diamond tournament trophy.  And then, a week later,  as the day turned perfect so did the Huntington Champion Hill Toppers... Read More...

Hill Toppers eke out win over Zebras

By Rick Henly on Monday, September 21st, 2009

JONESBORO, IN - In a match played to raise funds for historic restoration in Jonesboro the Champion Hill Toppers of Huntington traveled south to play the newly formed Jonesboro Zebras.  Under gorgeous skies on a field that could generously be called ‘interesting’ the local heroes scored four runs with two outs in the bottom of the ninth to take the match 18 to 17... Read More...

Hill Toppers have an easy Saturday

By Rick Henly on Monday, September 14th, 2009

On a summer’s day more like October than September on the broad lawn of the West Noble Academy near the Stone’s Trace Tavern the old rivalry between the Winona Lake and Huntington Base Ball Clubs was played out before a large group of appreciative cranks.  As volley fire from local gathering militia groups sounded in the distance and the clip-clop of dozens of Amish buggies sounded the passing parade of farmers, the lads from Huntington once again came out on top this season in a nicely played game of the American sport... Read More...

Softball Tryouts for Hurricanes

By Jeff Hoover on Friday, September 4th, 2009

Submitted by Harlen Chapman

The Huntington Hurricanes 14U Girls' Fast Pitch Softball team will hold tryouts for the 2010 spring and summer season on Sept. 5 and 12 at 10 a.m. Tryouts will be held at the Huntington University softball field. Girls born after Jan. 1, 1995, and before Jan... Read More...

TinCaps get franchise first No-Hitter

By Tom Stong on Tuesday, August 18th, 2009

The Fort Wayne TinCaps got a big win Tuesday evening. It was a great success for the team for many reasons.  First they were able to hit 3 homeruns in the game, 2 back to back by Allan Dykstra and Jason Baum. Another reason was, after winning the rain delayed game that started Monday, they went on to post the franchises very first No Hitter! Pitcher Simon Castro (8-6) threw a no hitter and threw all 7 innings of the  game, shortened due to the rain delay from the previous evening... Read More...