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Baseball def. ECA 7-2 in sectional semifinal. (Complete Play-By-Play)
FORT WAYNE, Ind. —

ECA	ab	r	h	bi		Bethany	ab	r	h	bi
Hartman c	4	0	0	0		Kelly p-ss	4	1	3	2
Revella ss	4	0	1	0		LSlagel 3b-p-2b	4	1	1	1
Armington cf	2	3	1	0		SKauffman c-p	4	0	3	2
DyLemert 1b	3	0	1	0		JKauffman ss-3b	4	0	1	0
DaLemert 2b	2	1	2	0		MMiller 1b	2	1	0	0
Hasse 3b	2	1	1	2		Helmuth rf	3	1	0	0
Drew dh	3	0	0	0		Bontreger cf	3	2	3	0
Shyposki pr	0	0	0	0		Gautsche lf	1	0	0	1
West lf	3	0	0	0		Schrock ph	0	0	0	0
Metz rf	1	0	0	0		Klassen 2b	3	0	1	0
Totals	24	5	6	2		ASlagel pr	0	1	0	0
						JMiller c	0	0	0	0
						Totals	28	7	12	6

ECA 000 000 2 — 2
BCS 130 003 x — 7
E — MMiller, LSlagel, Revella. DP — ECA 0, Bethany 0. LOB — ECA 8, Bethany 5. 2B — Kelly 2, Bontreger, SKauffman, Revella. SH — Schrock. SF — Gautsche.

ECA	ip	h	r	er	bb	so
Curtis (L)	6.0	12	7	5	1	0
Bethany	ip	h	r	er	bb	so
Kelly (W, 5-0)	6.0	4	0	0	2	2
LSlagel	0.2	2	2	2	3	2
SKauffman (S, 1)	0.1	0	0	0	0	0

HBP — by Kelly (Hartman). WP — Curtis. Balk — Curtis. T — 1:41.

Sectional update: Baseball sectional 51 at Blackhawk
Canterbury 4, Blackhawk 3.

Match Reports, May 16

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Baseball split a doubleheader with Prairie Heights.
GOSHEN —
Game One (Michiana Sports Authority webcast)

Prairie Heights	ab	r	h	bi		Bethany	ab	r	h	bi
Feeney ss	4	1	0	2		Kelly ss	4	1	1	0
Davidson cf	4	1	1	0		LSlagel lf-3b	3	0	1	0
Keister lf	3	1	0	0		SKauffman p-c	3	0	1	2
Springer 1b	4	0	2	2		MMiller 1b	2	0	1	0
Costanzo dh	4	1	1	0		ASlagel 1b	1	0	0	0
Ritchie p	3	1	1	0		Helmuth rf	3	0	0	0
Northup	3	0	0	0		JKauffman 3b-p	2	0	0	0
Day c	1	0	0	0		Weaver dh	2	0	1	0
Gillette rf	1	1	0	0		Klassen 2b	1	0	0	0
German pg-rf	1	0	0	0		Schrock 2b	2	0	0	0
Handshoe 3b	2	1	0	0		Bontreger cf	3	1	1	0
Totals	30	7	5	4		Totals	26	2	6	2

PH 100 600 0 — 7
BC 000 002 0 — 2
E — SKauffman 2, Kelly 2, JKauffman, Ritchie, ASlagel. DP — Prairie Heights 0, Bethany 0. LOB — Prairie Heights 6, Bethany 5. 2B — SWeaver. SB — Costanzo 2, Davidson, Keister. SH — Gillette, Northup.

Prairie Heights	ip	h	r	er	bb	so
Ritchie (W, 2-1)	7.0	6	2	2	1	7
Bethany	ip	h	r	er	bb	so
SKauffman (L, 1-3)	4.0	5	7	2	3	5
JKauffman	3.0	0	0	0	0	2

HBP — by SKauffman (Gillette). T — 1:23 (plus 0:33 rain delay).

Game Two (Michiana Sports Authority webcast)

Prairie Heights	ab	r	h	bi		Bethany	ab	r	h	bi
Feeney p-ss	4	0	0	0		LSlagel 3b-p	2	0	1	1
Davidson cf	3	0	1	0		Kelly p-ss	3	0	0	0
Keister dh-p	3	0	1	0		SKauffman c	3	1	1	0
Springer 1b	3	0	0	0		MMiller 1b	1	2	0	0
Ritchie ss-2b	3	0	1	0		JKauffman ss-p-3b	2	2	2	2
Costanzo lf	3	0	2	0		Helmuth rf	3	0	2	0
Northup c	3	1	0	0		Bontreger cf	2	2	1	3
Gillette rf	2	1	1	0		Gautsche lf	0	1	0	0
Handshoe 3b	2	0	1	1		Weaver dh	2	0	1	1
Totals	26	2	7	1		Kehr ph	1	0	0	0
						Totals	19	8	8	7

PH 001 010 0 — 2
BC 020 411 — 8
E — Feeney, LSlagel. DP — Prairie Heights 2, Bethany 0. LOB — Prairie Heights 6, Bethany 3. 2B — JKauffman, SKauffman. SB — Bontreger 2, LSlagel 2, Gautsche, MMiller, Weaver. SH — Gautsche, JKauffman, Keister.

Prairie Heights	ip	h	r	er	bb	so
Feeney (L)	3.1	6	6	6	6	2
Keister	2.2	2	2	2	0	0
Bethany	ip	h	r	er	bb	so
Kelly (W, 3-0)	4.1	4	2	1	1	1
JKauffman	0.2	0	0	0	0	0
LSlagel	2.0	3	0	0	2	1

HBP — by Keister (Bontreger). WP — Kelly, LSlagel. Balk — Kelly. T — 1:35.

Softball doubleheader vs. ECA rained out.

Girls tennis lost to Marian 4-1.
MISHAWAKA, Ind. — Mandy Schlabach lost to Caroline Eberhart 0-6, 0-6. Marla zumFelde lost to Merrill Welch 3-6, 1-6. Emma Caskey def. Megan Martin, 7-6 (3), 6-0. Emily Shenk/Corine Alvarez lost to Adrienne Michaels/Elizabeth Krizman 0-6, 2-6. Maria Thomas/Jama Yoder lost to Kathleen Klauer/Katie Jessen 0-6, 2-6.
JV lost 7-1.

Match Reports, May 7

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Baseball def. Lakeland Christian 17-1 in five innings.
GOSHEN —

Lakeland	ab	r	h	bi		Bethany	ab	r	h	bi
Franklin c	3	0	1	0		Kelly ss	2	2	1	1
Prinsen 1b	2	1	1	0		Schrock ss	0	0	0	0
Glock ss	2	0	0	0		LSlagel 3b	2	2	1	2
Zuercher p	2	0	0	0		SWeaver 3b-p	1	0	1	1
Blocher cf	2	0	0	0		SKauffman c	3	2	2	2
Remington rf	2	0	0	0		JMiller c	1	0	0	0
Brown 3b	2	0	0	0		JKauffman p-1b-3b	3	2	1	0
Kline lf	1	0	0	0		MMiller 1b	1	2	1	1
Smucker 2b	2	0	0	0		KMiller 1b-p	1	0	0	0
Totals	18	1	2	0		Helmuth rf	1	2	1	2
						ASlagel rf	1	0	0	0
						Bontreger cf	0	2	0	1
						Kehr lf	2	0	1	1
						Klassen 2b	3	2	2	2
						Gautsche lf-cf	4	1	0	1
						Totals	25	17	11	14

LC 000 10 — 1
BC (15)01 1x — 17

E — Franklin 2, Remington 2, Smucker, Zuercher. DP — Lakeland 1, Bethany 0. LOB — Lakeland 6, Bethany 7. 2B — SKauffman. 3B — Helmuth. SB — SKauffman 2, MMiller. SH — KMiller, Schrock, ASlagel, LSlagel.

Lakeland	ip	h	r	er	bb	so
Zuercher (L)	4.0	11	17	5	5	2
Bethany	ip	h	r	er	bb	so
JKauffman (W, 3-2)	3.0	1	0	0	0	6
KMiller	1.0	0	1	1	2	2
Weaver	1.0	1	1	1	1	1

HBP — by Zuercher (Kelly), by Zuercher (Klassen), by Zuercher (Bontreger). WP — Zuercher 2, KMiller. PB — Franklin. T — 1:29.

Girls tennis def. Howe Military 5-0.
GOSHEN — Emma Caskey def. Kari Pihl 6-1, 6-0, Sarah Brew def. Molly Rabb 6-1, 6-2. Emily Grimes def. Elizabeth Garrett 6-2, 6-0. Maria Thomas/Jama Yoder def. Brooke McGuire/Jayme Nidlinger 6-1, 6-2. Sydney Kehr/Pooja Patel def. Aiwen Zhang/Andrea Robinson 6-0, 6-0.
JV won 5-0. Bethany winners — Ji Eun Han, You Jin Bae, Alyssa Ramer, Anna Nafziger/Twila Albrecht, Paige Wheeler/Ji Hye Lee.

Game Reports, May 4

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Baseball def. Argos 4-3.
ARGOS, Ind. —
B 201 010 0 — 4 5 2
A 000 101 1 — 3 6 3
Mikey Kelly (W, 1-0), Luke Slagel (7; S, 1) and Seth Kauffman; Deon (L), Rex (5) and Williams.
Hits — Bethany: Kelly 2, Slagel 2; Argos: Gilbert 2. 3B — Argos: Sanders. RBI — Bethany: Slagel 2. SB — Bethany: Kelly 3.

JV lost to West Noble 21-11. I will let the box score speak for itself. That "3:06" is not a typo.
GOSHEN —

West Noble	ab	r	h	bi		Bethany	ab	r	h	bi
Fulk 2b-ss	5	4	2	3		Schrock ss	1	3	0	2
Caskey p	1	2	0	1		Weaver 3b-p	4	1	3	4
Segovia lf	2	0	0	0		ASlagel cf-p	3	0	0	2
Biggs ss-3b-p	4	5	2	0		KMiller p-3b-1b	5	0	1	1
Knafel c	4	3	2	3		Plank lf-p-rf	4	1	0	0
Dhonau cf-2b	5	1	1	1		Shetler 1b-lf	4	0	0	0
Ormsby 1b	4	0	1	3		CYoder 2b	2	2	0	0
Campbell lf-rf	5	0	0	0		JMiller c	3	2	0	0
Pensinger 3b-p	1	3	0	0		Troyer dh	1	2	0	1
Fulford rf	3	3	0	0		Grimes cf	0	0	0	0
Moreno ph	0	0	0	0		Totals	27	11	4	10
Totals	34	21	8	11

WN (10)01 510 4 — 21
BC 053 020 1 — 11
E — Dhonau, Fulk, Grimes, Knafel, KMiller, JMiller, Plank, Schrock, Segovia, ASlagel, Weaver, CYoder. DP — West Noble 1, Bethany 1. LOB — West Noble 7, Bethany 7. 2B — Fulk. 3B — Fulk. SB — Fulk 4, Biggs 3, Pensinger 3, Caskey 2, Fulford, Schrock, Weaver. SF — Ormsby.

West Noble	ip	h	r	er	bb	so
Caskey (W)	1.1	1	5	5	3	0
Pensinger	4.2	2	5	2	3	7
Biggs	1.0	1	1	0	1	1
Bethany	ip	h	r	er	bb	so
KMiller (L)	1.0	4	10	8	6	1
Weaver	3.0	1	6	3	7	2
Plank	2.2	2	5	4	2	5
ASlagel	0.1	0	0	0	0	1

KMiller pitched to 1 batter in 2nd.
HBP — Moreno (by Plank), Plank (by Caskey), Schrock (by Pensinger), Troyer (by Pensinger). WP — Weaver 3, Biggs 2, Plank 2, Caskey, Pensinger. PB — Knafel, JMiller. T — 3:06.

Softball def. Argos 17-0.
ARGOS, Ind. —
B 254 06 — 17 20 3
A 000 00 — 0 3 4
Chelsea Noble (W, 3-2), Mattie Lehman (5) and Ali Hochstetler; E. Jensen (L) and R. Ruffing.
Hits — Bethany: Noble 4, Kelly Snyder 4, Jodi Stutzman 3, Chris Minter 3, Ali Hochstetler 2, Gina Gautsche 2, Lehman 2. 2B — Bethany: Stutzman, Noble. RBI — Bethany: Noble 4, Minter 3, Snyder 3. Runs — Bethany: Noble 4, Stutzman 3, Leanne Hochstetler 2, Minter 2, Snyder 2. SB — Bethany: Stutzman 2.

Girls tennis def. Triton 4-1.
BOURBON, Ind. — Sarah Brew lost to Aubrey Boardman 6-7, 4-6. Marla zumFelde def. Molly Kauffman 6-0, 6-4. Emma Caskey def. Adrienne Utter 6-0, 6-0. Corine Alvarez/Emily Shenk def. Paige Davis-Taryn Cooper 6-3, 6-2. Maria Thomas/Jama Yoder def. Jessica Rabendrager/Britney Edington 6-1, 6-2.
JV won 3-0.

Golf lost to Prairie Heights and Northridge.
HOWE, Ind. — Team scores: Prairie Heights 166, Northridge 172, Bethany 223. Medalist — Casey Anderson (PH) 36. Bethany golfers — t-9th, Jared Schwartzentruber 47; 11th, Matt Ebersole 55; 12th, Johnny Watkins 59; 13th, Jared Christophel 62; 14th, Ian Croyle 71.

Game Reports, April 25

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Baseball lost to Westview 24-5 in five innings. I am currently not in possession of my scorecard.
W 353 58 — 24 21 0
B 100 13 — 5 10 5
Adam Christner (W, 3-0), Zac Mishler (5) and Chris Miller; Johnny Kauffman (L, 1-2), Luke Slagel (2), Micah Miller (3), Ben Bontreger (3), Seth Kauffman (4), Mikey Kelly (5) and Jared Miller, S. Kauffman (3), Kelly (4).
Hits — Westview: Jesse Schrock 4, Austin Haney 3, C. Miller 3, Adam Christner 3, Steve Blinco 2, Tyler Mowery 2; Bethany: Mikey Kelly 3, Johnny Kauffman 2. HR — Westview: Schrock, Nic Mishler. 3B — Westview: Schrock, Haney, Mowery, Christner. 2B — Westview: Schrock, Haney; Bethany: James Helmuth, J. Kauffman. RBI — Westview: Schrock 7, Mowery 3, N. Mishler 3; Bethany: J. Kauffman 2. SB — Westview: Christner 2.

JV lost 16-5.
GOSHEN —

Westview	ab	r	h	bi		Bethany	ab	r	h	bi
BYoder ss-p-rf	4	2	1	1		Schrock ss	4	1	0	0
Carpenter 2b	4	3	3	1		Shetler 1b-lf-rf	4	0	1	0
Brndnbrgr p-ss	2	1	1	3		ASlagel cf	2	1	0	0
LMiller 1b-c	5	1	2	2		KMiller lf-1b-p	3	1	1	0
Feuston rf-1b	4	2	2	0		Weaver p-3b	3	2	2	2
Berkey c-rf-p	3	3	2	3		Plank rf-p	4	0	2	2
Schlabach 3b	3	2	2	1		SMiller rf	0	0	0	0
Stoltzfus cf	3	1	0	1		CYoder 3b-lf	1	0	0	0
Bender lf	3	1	1	1		Grimes ph-lf	1	0	0	0
Totals	31	16	14	13		JMiller c	4	0	1	0
						Troyer 2b	4	0	0	0
						Totals	30	5	7	4

W 034 101 7 — 16
B 200 100 0 — 3
E — Berkey, KMiller, LMiller, Plank, Schlabach, CYoder. DP — Westview 1, Bethany 1. LOB — Westview 6, Bethany 8. 2B — Plank 2, Carpenter, Feuston, LMiller. 3B — Berkey. SB — ASlagel 2, Berkey, Carpenter, Troyer. SH — Brndnbrgr. SF — Brndnbrgr.

Westview	ip	h	r	er	bb	so
Brndnbrgr	3.0	0	2	2	3	6
BYoder (W)	3.0	5	1	1	2	5
Berkey	1.0	2	2	1	0	2
Bethany	ip	h	r	er	bb	so
Weaver (L)	4.0	8	8	8	3	1
KMiller	2.0	3	4	4	2	3
Plank	1.0	2	4	4	0	0

KMiller pitched to 3 batters in 7th.
HBP — Carpenter (by Plank), Brndnbrgr (by Plank). WP — Brndnbrgr, KMiller, Plank. PB — Berkey 2, JMiller, LMiller. T — 2:12.

Girls tennis Bremen Invitational
BREMEN, Ind. —

• def. Tippecanoe Valley 5-0. Mandy Schlabach def. Susie Contreras 7-5, 6-4. Marla zumFelde def. Kendra Roberts 6-1, 6-1. Emma Caskey def. Layla Johnston 6-1, 6-1. Corine Alvarez/Emily Shenk def. Jen Garrnger/Heather Horton 6-2, 6-3. Jama Yoder/Maria Thomas def. Tabitha Woodall/Mandy Clennon 6-1, 7-6 (3).
• other matches ppd. to May 2
  

JV 4th in Concord Invitational.
ELKHART —

• lost to Marian 4-1. Bethany winner — Emily Grimes. Marian winners — Maggie Cassady, Lauren Garatoni, Dayna Tychonievich/Meredith Patty, Taylor Milner/Madison Pletcher.
• lost to Culver 5-0.
  
• lost to Concord 5-0.
  

Golf 8th at Lakeland Invitational.
LaGRANGE, Ind. —
Team scores: Goshen 318, Lakeland 323, Prairie Heights 331, Westview 335, Hamilton 386, Eastside 391, Jimtown 392, Bethany Christian 437.
Top individuals — Matt Miller (W) 78 (medalist), Eric Peters (G) 78 (runner-up), Matt Diller (G) 78, Matt Shultz (PH) 79, Cole Pechin (L) 79. Bethany golfers — Jared Schwartzentruber 98, Jared Christophel 108, Matt Ebersole 110, Johnny Watkins 121.

Game Reports, March 30

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JV baseball
GOSHEN — Opportunity, the saying goes, knocks but once. While the number, as well as the possibility of ringing the doorbell, may be up for debate in baseball, the premise remains true: take advantage of the chances available. Monday, it was the Crusaders doing that in an 18-2, five-inning victory over the Bruins at Bodiker Field.

Fort Wayne went down quietly in the first inning, as a walk erased four pitches later on a fielder's choice provided their only baserunner. Bethany started off auspiciously, as walks drawn by Peter Schrock and Jared Miller were followed by a single from Andy Slagel to load the bases with no outs. Such confidence would soon collapse, however, with two strikeouts and a ground ball leaving the bases full of Bruins. The Crusaders went down 1-2-3 in the ensuing half-inning and the game remained scoreless.

The second inning gave the home team their best shot at the scoreboard, and they responded by reaching base on three-ball counts with the first two hitters and advancing men to the corners with the third. Schrock knocked in a run with a sharp ground ball to center, and a single by Miller reloaded the bases. After Slagel took the payoff pitch for ball four, making the tally 2-0 for the home team, Bethany had a brilliant shot to hang a crooked number in the right field corner. But pitcher Kyle Miller nubbed a dribbler back to his mound counterpart, forcing the wiry, bespectacled shortstop out at home and getting thrown out at first to end the inning. The Crusaders scored without the benefit of a hit on offense—walk, stolen base, error, passed ball—and the Bruins went down quietly, leaving them up 2-1 entering the fourth.

In that inning, the visitors' opportunity knocked. It also rang the bell, stole the gate code, and finally broke through the door, as a walk, single and groundout gave way to ten of the next eleven hitters reaching base before Kyle ceded the rubber to Scott Weaver. All ten would eventually score, along with the two previous hitters, before a flyout got the home team out of the inning. Bethany would get only one hit in the fourth, then give up five runs on three hits, three walks, a wild pitch, and two passed balls in the fifth. Down 18-2, they would get one more crack at the bat before the ten-run rule dropped them to 0-1 on the year.

With leadoff walks from Slagel and Kyle Miller, a distant cousin of the aforementioned giver of chance may have been argued to be mounting the porch. Though Weaver fell victim to an aluminum-induced breeze on a 1-2 pitch, Blake Shetler's ground ball to second forced out Miller but put the Bruins a swing away from halving their gap to the mercy rule. But a dribbler in front of the plate from Josh Plank put the Bruins out of their misery until Thursday's 5:00 first pitch against Lakeland in LaGrange.

(Box Score)

Crusaders	ab	r	h	bi		Bethany	ab	r	h	bi
Kraft cf	2	2	0	0		Schrock ss	2	0	2	1
Jennings 1b-p	2	2	1	1		JMiller c	2	0	1	0
Schmitz p	1	0	0	0		ASlagel cf-1b	1	0	1	1
CThomas p	0	0	0	0		KMiller p-3b	2	0	0	0
Hinsley p	2	2	0	0		Weaver 3b-p	3	0	0	0
Klinek p-1b	1	1	1	1		Shetler 1b-lf	3	0	0	0
DThomas lf	4	2	2	2		Plank lf-cf	3	1	1	0
Bertsch ss	4	2	1	0		Grimes dh	0	0	0	0
Shragel 2b	3	3	3	3		Yoder 2b	2	1	0	0
Swihart 3b	3	2	2	5		SMiller rf	0	0	0	0
Sarrazinz rf	2	2	1	2		Totals	18	2	5	2
Petersen c	4	0	0	1
Totals	28	18	11	15

FWC — 001 (12)5 — 18
BCB — 020 00 — 2

E — JMiller 2, Plank, Shetler. DP — Crusaders 1, Bethany 0. LOB — Crusaders 1, Bethany 8. 2B — Shragel, Swihart. 3B — Shragel. SB — Sarrazinz 2, Hinsley, Jennings.

Crusaders	ip	h	r	er	bb	so
Schmitz	1.0	1	0	0	2	2
CThomas	1.0	3	2	2	2	0
Hinsley (W)	1.0	0	0	0	0	2
Klinek	1.0	1	0	0	1	2
Jennings	1.0	0	0	0	2	1
Bethany	ip	h	r	er	bb	so
KMiller (L, 0-1)	3.2	8	13	6	2	2
Weaver	1.1	3	5	5	2	1

WP — SWeaver. PB — JMiller 3. T — 2:18.

Softball lost to SB Riley 10-0.
B 000 000 0 — 0 1 3
R 222 103 x — 10 9 0
Chelsea Noble (L, 0-1), Mattie Lehman (6) and Ali Hochstetler; C. Fodrody (W; 8 strikeouts) and J. Busfield.
Hits — M. Armstead 2, K. Chapman 2, J. Zukowski 2; Noble. 3B — Zukowski, A. Dainelli. RBI — Armstead 2. Runs — Dainelli 3, Armstead 2, A. Lewis 2.