New Lex clinches MVL title, ups record to 18–2

THORNVILLE — New Lexington secured an outright MVL championship with their 7-4 win over West Muskingum last week, thanks in part to a 13-hit performance from the speedy Panthers lineup. Four different Panthers recorded multi-hit games while senior pitcher Isaac McGill pitched a complete game, giving up three earned runs and striking out 11. With the MVL title clinched, New Lex traveled to Thornville to face off with Sheridan in a battle of Perry County and MVL elites with Southeast District seeding on the line. A Bentley Hanson single in the top of the sixth broke up a 4-4 tie...