Shelby Dermer

1 day ago | cincinnati.com | Shelby Dermer

OXFORD − Badin baseball's redemption tour is right on schedule. Coming off a heartbreaking loss in last year's Division II state final, Badin hasn't skipped a beat in its attempt to win the school's first state championship since 1996. On Thursday, June 5, Badin (25-6) used another stellar pitching performance and a relentless lineup to blow out Vandalia Butler (28-4), 10-1, in the Division III regional championship game at Miami University's Hayden Park.

1 day ago | sports.yahoo.com | Shelby Dermer

OXFORD − Badin baseball's redemption tour is right on schedule. Coming off a heartbreaking loss in last year's Division II state final, Badin hasn't skipped a beat in its attempt to win the school's first state championship since 1996. AdvertisementOn Thursday, June 5, Badin (25-6) used another stellar pitching performance and a relentless lineup to blow out Vandalia Butler (28-4), 10-1, in the Division III regional championship game at Miami University's Hayden Park.

1 day ago | sports.yahoo.com | Shelby Dermer

One would think that a team that has won 26 of 30 games this season would not have had too many mountains to climb with their backs against the wall. For Lebanon softball, however, the adversity began last summer, when Brian Kindell's club had to replace a quartet of All-Eastern Cincinnati Conference selections. AdvertisementWhile Lebanon opened the season 15-2, there was a crossroads over three days in late April.

2 days ago | cincinnati.com | Shelby Dermer

FAIRBORN − Playing at the home of the Wright State Raiders, which shocked college baseball by upsetting No. 1 Vanderbilt in the NCAA Tournament, Lakota West baseball notched a big-time upset of its own in knocking out top-seeded Moeller, 3-2, on Wednesday, June 4, at Nischwitz Stadium. Lakota West (24-7) captures its fourth regional title in school history and first since 2017.

3 days ago | cincinnati.com | Shelby Dermer

XENIA − A pair of Greater Cincinnati baseball teams had radically different results in the Division II regional semifinals at Browne Stadium on the Athletes in Action Campus on Tuesday, June 3. Loveland, co-champions of the Eastern Cincinnati Conference, used a big second inning to cruise to a 13-2 victory over Teays Valley. In the nightcap, Edgewood once again notched a late-inning rally, but fell in heartbreaking fashion as Anthony Wayne walked it off in the seventh for a 3-2 win.