Ohio High School Baseball - Bowling Green can't hold off Otsego
April 2, 2010: Bowling Green, OH 43402 The Otsego Knights baseball team scored 7 points and limited the host Bowling Green Bobcats to 6 in the Knights non-league victory on Friday.
The Knights (2-1) will now prepare for their match against Wauseon (Wauseon, OH). The Indians go into the non-league match with a 0-0 record.
The Bobcats (0-1) will now prepare for their challenge against Genoa (Genoa, OH). The Comets come into the non-league challenge with a 1-0 record. In their last challenge, Genoa got by Oak Harbor (Oak Harbor, OH), 12-1, in a non-league challenge.
Game Summary
The Otsego Knights bounce back and get a big win against neighbor rival Bowling Green. BG took an early lead with timely hits from Dible and Sickler and a 4 inning shut out performance from starter Swegan. The Knights did all their damage from the 5th inning on scoring 3 in the fifth, 3 in the sixth and adding an insurance run, proven to be the game winner, in the seventh. Otsego's pitcher Devon Tantari put in a great performance, holding a very good line-up to 3 runs on 3 hits and releiver Andrew Austin didn't fall much short of Tantari's performance, picking off a runner in the fifth and holding on to the Knight's lead. Ryan Smoyer lead the Knights hitters going 3-4 with two doubles, Travis Podolak, Nathan Downs and Korey Amos all put in 2-4 nights at the plate with crucial timely hitting to eventually overtake the Bobcats. The Knights will hope to carry this momentum into their next contest and play with the same "sense of urgency".
