Goodwin stymies Wildcats
DELPHOS — Braden Goodwin tossed a 4-hitter versus Jefferson Thursday afternoon as the Allen East baseballers downed the Wildcats 6-1 in Northwest Conference action at Wildcat Field.

Goodwin went the distance in a 103-pitch effort (67 strikes), fanning 11 and walking two. Ross Thompson (2-2; 5 innings, 5 hits, 5 runs, 3 earned, 2 walks, 2 strikeouts) took the loss for the hosts (12-5, 2-2 NWC).
Drew Kortokrax had a solo blast for the Wildcats’ tally.
Jefferson hosts Lima Central Catholic at noon Saturday.

The National Holiday — er, uh, the NFL Draft (I’m sorry, the NFL Player Selection Meeting!) is upon us tonight!

Can I tell you that I don’t like the 3-day format!

I was getting used to attending Draft parties on Saturdays — basically — and having healthy … disagreements … with fellow attendees regarding their teams and my team!

Come to think of it, we generally agreed that the Cowboys’ drafts under Mr. Jerry Jones and Gil Brandt toward the end of the Landry era were rotten, lousy, terrible and some might say mediocre!

Oh, well, Paul Tagliabue, Roger Goodell and the powers-that-be didn’t ask for my 2-pennies worth, especially with the dollar signs that supposedly were dancing in their heads like sugar plums at Christmas time from the networks should they make this move!

I wonder if I am in the minority in this regard because if I’m not, I am sure NFL offices would have been inundated with complaints in the time since they did this starting in 2010.

Some interesting tidbits about the Draft that I didn’t know or wasn’t necessarily sure about: it began in 1936 with John Jacob “Jay” Berwanger from the University of Chicago, the first winner of the Downtown Athletic Club Trophy in 1935 (the next year renamed the Heisman Trophy) — wait, UC had a football team? In the Big Ten Conference? — the first pick by the Philadelphia Eagles. There is some discrepancy as to the reasons why he ended up being traded to Da Bears under George “Papa Bear” Halas and never played a down of professional football. I will go with the explanation I read in The Milwaukee Journal archives — remember the saying the more things change …? — the Iggles didn’t believe they could meet his salary demands of $1,000 per game! He also didn’t sign with Da Bears so he could remain an amateur and try out for the 1936 Summer Olympic team in the decathlon; after he didn’t make the cut, he and Halas couldn’t agree on a salary and he “retired” from the game.

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DELPHOS — Continental’s fast-pitch softball crew rode the 2-hitter by Makenna Scott to an 11-1 non-league triumph over Jefferson on a windy and wet Tuesday afternoon at Lady Wildcat Field.

Scott went the distance in her first pitching effort of the season (1-0; 5 innings, 1 earned run, 6 bases-on-balls, 4 strikeouts).
Jefferson’s Hannah Sensibaugh lost her first varsity outing of 2012-13 (0-1; 2 IPs, 6 hits, 9 runs, 7 earned, 4 BBS. 2 Ks).

“For her first varsity game, she did fine overall. It’s hard to really get a rhythm throwing indoors,” Jefferson coach Josiah Stober said. “She actually got better from the first to the second inning and as she gets more innings, she will continue to improve.”

For Continental coach Jordan Streicher, he was also pleased with Scott’s effort.

“She had a few too many walks but generally, she threw the pitches we called and where we called them,” he explained. “She was in the strike zone most of the day. She will also get nothing but better as she gains innings.”

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DELPHOS — St. John’s grabbed both sides of its track and field tri-meet with Fort Jennings and Ottoville on a windy Tuesday evening at the Delphos Community Track.
The Blue Jay boys downed the Big Green and Musketeers 92-56-25, while the Lady Jays defeated the Lady Musketeers and Lady Green 75-52-45.

“It was a semi-good day to run today,” quipped St. John’s boys coach Dr. Jay DeWitt. “Overall, this spring has not been good. Today wasn’t too bad but even then, it was windy. I’ve coached for 10 years and this has been the worst spring. Because of the lack of quality practice time outdoors, we are treating every meet like a glorified practice. We try to do both: compete and work on things we really haven’t been able to in practice. It’s frustrating but the kids have worked hard and done their best.”

Lady Jay coach Dave Desenberg echoed that assessment.

“All you can ask of your people is to give 100 percent and get better. We did that today and that’s a positive; plus, at this time of year, it’s about coming out of every meet relatively healthy, which we are,” he explained. “I have coached in this sport for 35 years and I can only remember one or two years that were like this. The girls are doing everything we ask and that’s all you can do.”

Redskins rout
Jays in 6 innings
ST. HENRY — The St. John’s baseball team was held to two hits Tuesday night by St. Henry’s Alex Post as the host Redskins compiled 11 an 11-1 Midwest Athletic Conference rout in six innings at the Wally E. Post Athletic Complex.

Troy Warnecke took the loss for the Blue Jays (3-7, 0-2 MAC). He had the only run batted in. Curtis Geise and Ryan Buescher had the hits.
Post struck out seven for the Redskins (9-2, 3-0 MAC).
St. John’s visits Bath 5 p.m. tonight (weather permitting).