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Austin Harshman takes an inside pitch.

•April 25, 2018•

By Jason Brown
NP Sports

Now that the weather has warmed up, the Okaw Valley baseball team played four games this week and won three of them to improve its record to 14-1 on the season.

“I’m very happy with how we have played so far this season,” said OV coach Andrew Hagerman. “The pitching and defense have been solid, except for the game at Effingham where we couldn’t do anything right.”

The Timberwolves knocked off Arthur-Lovington/Atwood-Hammond, Judah Christian, Decatur Lutheran and Arcola but lost its first and only game of the year to Effingham.

Against ALAH in an Okaw Valley Conference Northwest Division matchup, OV jumped out early with a run in the first inning, six runs in the second inning and three runs in the third inning.

Neither team scored after that, so the game ended in a 10-0 shutout in five innings.     Login or Subscribe to read the rest of this story.