Baseball/Softball

Vikings finish season 27 -2

By Lamont Neal on Monday, May 21st, 2012

The Vikings hosted Anderson in the NCC double header and sweeping the Indians. The Vikings won game 1 8-2. Evan Brown Homered and picked up 2 rbi’s and Kendall Whitman went 2 for 4 on the day with 3 rbi’s. Trevor Storie moved to 10-0 on the year with a 1.18 era.

The Vikings took game 2 7-1 with Brock Gower picking up the win for the Vikings and Schnitz, Storie and Brown each picking up 2 rbi’s at the plate... Read More...

PAL results May 20

By Lamont Neal on Sunday, May 20th, 2012

PAL has wrapped up its second week of play. The standings are as follows:

LITTLE LEAGUE STANDINGS

HUNT. CO. FED. CR. U. WON 6 LOST 0 PCT... Read More...

JV Softball remains hot

By Lamont Neal on Thursday, May 17th, 2012

The JV softball team move to 18-4 on the year by taking two from Kokomo on Tuesday and Wednesday. Tori Newsome was the winning pitcher in Tuesday’s 15-5 victory. Tori gave up 7 hits and 2 walks while striking out 6 in 5 innings. Tori helped herself at the plate going 2 for 4. Carley McEhlhaney was hot from the plate going 3 for 4 including a triple as was Monica Minton going 2 for 3... Read More...

Vikings take two from Devils

By Lamont Neal on Tuesday, May 15th, 2012

Game one of Saturdays double header saw the Vikings jump out to an early lead on the Richmond Red Devils. Cody Frazier would lead off for the Vikings with a double, Brock Gower would reach with a walk and Kendall Whitman would then clear the bases with a home run to put the Vikings up 4-0. The second would start with Frazier again as Cody would single and then steal second... Read More...

PAL Baseball Standings Wk. Ending May 11

By Lamont Neal on Monday, May 14th, 2012

PAL baseball standings for the week ending May11, 2012.

LITTLE LEAGUE STANDINGS

HUNT.CO.FED.CR.U. WON 3 LOST 0 PCT. 1.000
OPTMIST WON 2 LOST 1 PCT. .667
STAR INS... Read More...

Viking J V softball defeats Whitko

By Lamont Neal on Tuesday, May 8th, 2012

The Viking JV softball team defeated Whitko on Monday night. The Vikings Alexandra Kreider pitched 6 innings with 5 strikeouts, 6 hits and 7 walks for the win. Tori Newsom came in for a 3 strikeout inning to seal the victory.

Morgan Butler picked up 2 RBI’s going 2 for 3 include a triple and a walk to help pace the Vikings... Read More...

Vikings pass first test as number 1

By Lamont Neal on Monday, May 7th, 2012

The Vikings continue to pack in the games and rack up the wins. After travelling to New Castle on Saturday and taking two including defeating the number 1 ranked Texas bound junior Trey Ball the 19 and 1 Vikings came out as number 1 in the Indiana 4a coaches’ poll this morning.

Monday night the Vikings 10 runned the Muncie Central Bearcats in a rain out make up in 6 innings to go to 20 and 1... Read More...

HU Wraps Up Season

By Joanne Green on Sunday, May 6th, 2012

The 3rd-seeded HU softball team made a premature exit from the 2012 Mid-Central Conference Tournament Thursday afternoon as they went 1-2 at Indiana Wesleyan University, ending its season with a loss to top-seeded Bethel College.

The Foresters blew a two-run lead in their opening round game on Wednesday, falling 6-4 to 6th-seeded Spring Arbor after the Cougars plated four runs in their last at-bat... Read More...

Cougars knock HU out of tourney

By Joanne Green on Sunday, May 6th, 2012

After staving off elimination against two-seeded Saint Francis, the Foresters’ hopes of a repeat conference title came to end Thursday afternoon at Taylor University as they dropped their second game to Spring Arbor in as many days.

Blake Ayers ripped a walk-off single in the bottom of the 11th inning to lift HU over Saint Francis 7-6 Thursday morning... Read More...

Local 12u baseball players Champions

By Lamont Neal on Wednesday, May 2nd, 2012

The 12u Stars Academy Baseball Team won the 2012 ETS BPA King of Diamonds Tournament held at Newton Park in Lakeville, Indiana, during the weekend of April 27-29. The Championship title gives the team a berth into the BPA World Series to be held in East Peoria, IL, July 24-29, 2012... Read More...

Five Foresters honored by MCC

By Joanne Green on Wednesday, May 2nd, 2012

The Mid-Central Conference (MCC) has announced it baseball postseason awards for the 2012 spring season and for the third consecutive year senior Eric Schultz was among the list of honorees.

The Palo, Iowa native (John F. Kennedy HS) landed a spot as the All-Conference utility player for the second straight year... Read More...

McDougle throws perfect game

By Joanne Green on Monday, April 30th, 2012

For most pitchers, a perfect game is nothing more than a dream but for HU sophomore Marcie McDougle that became reality Saturday afternoon when she held the Saints hitless and issued no walks to lead the Foresters to a 1-0 win over the University of St. Francis (Ill.) in game two of the doubleheader... Read More...

McDougle continues to dominate the mound

By Joanne Green on Saturday, April 28th, 2012

Taking on Calumet College of St. Joseph in nonconference action on Thursday afternoon, the Forester softball team split a doubleheader with the Crimson Wave. HU dropped a 6-3 decision before returning the favor in the nightcap by logging a 7-3 win to even up the series.

Huntington was behind the eight ball in the opener as Calumet raced out to a 4-0 lead forcing HU to play catch up the rest of the game... Read More...

HU baseball splits with No. 24 Taylor

By Joanne Green on Saturday, April 28th, 2012

The HU baseball team denied the MCC’s top-seeded team an opportunity to celebrate the league’s regular season title at Forester Glen Park by splitting with 24th-ranked Taylor University Thursday evening. The Foresters edged past the Trojans 3-2 in the opener before Taylor pieced together an impressive seven-inning rally to skate past HU 12-6 in the nightcap... Read More...