Golden Eagles place solid third at Gary Smith Girls Invitational

The Golden Eagles’ girls track and field team stepped up its per­for­mance for the Thomas Worthington’s Gary Smith Invi­ta­tional Sat­ur­day at Thomas Wor­thing­ton High School.

Big Wal­nut placed behind state power Solon, which won the 15-team meet with 170 points. Dublin Coff­man was sec­ond with 95 and the Golden Eagles were a solid third with 92.50 points.

Big Walnut girls take ninth Brooke Relay title

It was another dom­i­nant per­for­mance by the Golden Eagles’ girls track and field team.

Big Wal­nut, on the strength of four first-place fin­ishes and two meet records, scored a 20-point mar­gin of vic­tory in win­ning its ninth Brooke Relays cham­pi­onship in 11 appear­ances last Sat­ur­day in Wells­burg, West Virginia.

Yellow Jackets’ sting Big Walnut, 8-1; Duncan hurls Golden Eagles to 2-0 win over Watkins

MOUNT VERNON — The Big Wal­nut base­ball team’s come-from-behind win over Mount Ver­non last Mon­day (April 22) seemed to be exactly what the Golden Eagles needed.

Three days later, and against the same oppo­nent, the tide had turned considerably.

Mount Ver­non starter Jay­ben Mar­tin held Big Wal­nut to just three hits and the host Yel­low Jack­ets scored in every inning but one, fin­ish­ing the day with an 8–1 Ohio Cap­i­tal Con­fer­ence Cap­i­tal vic­tory over the Golden Eagles Thurs­day at Mount Ver­non High School.

Golden Eagles serve up OCC win at Franklin Hgts.

Big Wal­nut ran its Ohio Cap­i­tal Con­fer­ence Cap­i­tal Divi­sion record to 3–1 with a 5–0 deci­sion over host Franklin Heights Mon­day in Columbus.

The Golden Eagles, 5–7 over­all, dom­i­nated the sin­gles courts behind the play of Logan Adams, Grant Burks and Isa­iah Kolb. Adams was a 6–0, 6–0 win­ner at first sin­gles, Burks a 6–0, 6–1 win­ner at sec­ond sin­gles and Kolb a 5–1, 6–3 win­ner at third singles.

At dou­bles, Jesse Rines and Scott Bai­ley teamed for a 7–6(5), 7–6(3) deci­sion at No.1 while Cole Davis and Adam Free­burg paired for a 7–6(7), 6–4 vic­tory at No. 2.

Scott leaving BW girls basketball program with 166 victories in 13 seasons

There will be a famil­iar face miss­ing from the Golden Eagles bench when Big Wal­nut opens its 2013–14 girls bas­ket­ball sea­son. Bob Scott, who won 166 games in his 13 sea­sons at the Golden Eagle helm, announced his deci­sion to leave the pro­gram for per­sonal fam­ily con­cerns after meet­ing with BW Ath­letic Direc­tor Steve Glesenkamp.

Scott’s grand­daugh­ter played mid­dle school bas­ket­ball at Olen­tangy Orange and with their con­flict­ing sched­ules he missed more than half of her games. And if she went on to play high school bas­ket­ball for the Pio­neers he would have to coach against her, some­thing he did not want to do.

“I missed bet­ter than half of her games this past sea­son, and if I stay in coach­ing I would con­tinue to have few oppor­tu­ni­ties to watch her in the future,” Scott said. “When she advances to play at the high school level, I would be forced to coach against her … that’s some­thing I don’t want to do.”

Big Walnut baseball rallies from 5-run deficit to stun Mount Vernon, 10-5

Down, but not out …

For the third straight game, Big Wal­nut ral­lied for a come-from-behind vic­tory, the lat­est came Mon­day after­noon when the Golden Eagles ral­lied from an early 5–0 deficit to hand vis­it­ing Mount Ver­non 10–5 Ohio Cap­i­tal Con­fer­ence set­back in Sunbury.

The Yel­low Jack­ets jumped out to the 5-run lead with three runs in the first inning before tack­ing on two more in the sec­ond against the Golden Eagles’ start­ing and even­tual win­ning pitcher Cole Harbin.

Big Wal­nut, com­ing off a pair of come­back vic­to­ries over River Val­ley on Sat­ur­day, wasted lit­tle time get­ting back into the game, scor­ing three runs in the bot­tom of the third to nar­row the gap to 5–3.

With Harbin qui­et­ing the Mount Ver­non bats, allow­ing only a sin­gle and a base on balls in fac­ing only 16 Yel­low Jack­ets over the final five innings, Big Wal­nut went to work in the bot­tom of the sixth inning. The Golden Eagles sent 11 bat­ters to the plate and tal­lied seven runs on three hits and five walks to open up a 10–3 lead going into the top of the sev­enth inning.

Big Wal­nut (8–5, 2–3 OCC) opened the inning with back-to-back walks by off Mount Ver­non starter and loser Alex Arck to Jay Hol­land and Nick Moser. Fol­low­ing an Arck strike­out, Jeremy Bok laced a sin­gle to cen­ter scor­ing Hol­land. After Kyle Dun­can drew a base on balls to load the bases, Matt Tar­ney dropped down a perfectly-placed squeeze bunt to score Moser and tie the game at 5–5 before Bok raced home on a wild pitch by Yel­low Jacket reliever Duke Cun­ning­ham for what would prove to be the game-winning run.

BW girls capture Smith Invitational

Big Wal­nut, led by the trio of Jor­dan Lyle, Olivia Small and Jamie Annis cap­tured the 14-team Hank Smith Invi­ta­tional held Sat­ur­day at Heath High School. Joe Evener’s Golden Eagles scored 107 points to out­dis­tance run­nup Granville by 29 points. Watkins Memo­r­ial was third with 74, Sheri­dan fourth with 73 and the host Bull­dogs fifth with 70 points.

Big Walnut sweeps Golden Eagle Relays

Big Walnut’s girls track and field team used a bal­anced effort to get the results it was look­ing for Sat­ur­day after­noon in Sun­bury, plac­ing in 13 of the 14 events to score 92 points on the way to cap­tur­ing their fifth straight 2013 “Red” Edwards Golden Eagle
Relays cham­pi­onship.
Big Wal­nut coach Joe Evener said win­ning the squad’s host event never gets old. “I am just so proud of these girls,” he said. “What a
ter­rific win for them. They were able to over­come a cou­ple major obsta­cles and pull out a vic­tory over some very wor­thy oppo­nents. This is the fifth time in a row we have won the meet, and it seems like every time we do it in a dif­fer­ent way.”
West­er­ville Cen­tral was a close sec­ond with 81 points while Olen­tangy smoothed out the top three of the 15-team field with 56.