Doubles winners for Louisville included the teams of Vince Burwell & Daniel Thompson and Michael Thomas & Ryan Shepherd. The win is the Quakers first ever win over the Leopards after previously suffering eight straight defeats.
Eight different Leopards provided RBI’s and eight different Leopards also scored during Louisville’s 13-2 NBC victory over visiting Carrollton. Riley Groves earned the victory on the mound and is now 7-0 for the season.
Louisville’s 9-2 win over West Branch gives them their 4th straight outright NBC Title & their third straight 20-win season. Jordan Monnot had a 3-run homer off the scoreboard in the fifth.
Ryan Shepherd & Michael Thomas recorded a doubles victory, but Louisville still fell to Green 4-1 snapping a 14-game winning streak. Only the 17-0 1979 team had more consecutive wins in a season.
The boys won a lob-sided 96-32 victory to move to 4-2 on the season and the girls team also blew out the Aviators 109-19 to improved their unbeaten mark to 6-0.
Adam Sullivan & Anthony Hoover won singles matches. Vince Burwell & Daniel Thompson and Ryan Shepherd & Michael Thomas won double matches for 14-1, 8-0 Louisville.
Dillon Stertzbach pitched 6 solid innings and struck out 11 to lead the Louisville past host Carrollton 6-4. Stertzbach also had 2 RBI’s offensively and Chad Neff had a 2-run triple for the 13-5, 9-2 Leopards.
Emily Isla and Katie Cozy each went 3-for-3 with 4 RBI’s to lead the Lady Leopards to a 10-0 home win over the Salem Quakers. Gianna Falcone also pitched a five inning two-hit shutout.
The Leopards boys tennis team edged out Canton South 3-2 in moving to 7-0 in the NBC and 13-1 overall. With the sweep of South, Louisville has now won 5 of their 7 NBC matches by counts of 3-2.
The Lady Leps will host the winner of the #7 Green vs. #9 Timken matchup in the Sectional Final on May 8 at 4:30 PM after drawing the 3rd seed.
