Josh Barnett - Sports Editor

Jac-Cen-Del's baseball team jumped out to a good start in their summer league, winning their first three games before splitting with South Dearborn in a doubleheader making their record 4-1.

In their first game of the summer the Eagles defeated Batesville 10-0 in five innings. Bryan Schwanholt picked up the victory on the mound, pitching 3 innings, giving up no runs on just one hit, walking 2 batters and striking out 4. Adam Peetz came in to close the game, pitching 2 innings, giving up no runs on no hits, walking one batter and striking out none. Schwanholt went 2 for 3 in the contest with a double, stolen base and one run scored.

The Eagles defeated Oldenburg in both their second and third game by scores of 7 to 6 in the first game and 11-1 in the second.

In the first game against the Twisters Schwanholt started on the mound, pitching 3 innings, giving up 3 runs (1 earned) on 2 hits, walking 3 batters and striking out 2. Tyler Bradshaw came in to pitch, going 1 inning and giving up 3 runs (2 earned) on 2 hits, walking 3 and striking out none. Adam Peetz came in to close and picked up the win, going 6 innings and giving up no runs on 4 hits, walking 2 batters and striking out 9.

In the second game Justin Huff pitched all five innings, giving up 1 run on 3 hits, walking 2 batters and striking out 4.

The Eagles first loss of the summer came in the first game of a doubleheader against South Dearborn when the Knights defeated them 10-0.

Schwanholt picked up the loss in the contest, pitching 2 innings and giving up 6 runs (3 earned) on 3 hits, walking 5 batters and striking out 2. Kyle Horan came in for 2 innings, giving up 2 runs on 2 hits, walking one and striking out none and Tucker Brown came in to close the game, pitching one inning, giving up 2 runs on 2 hits, walking one and striking out none.

Jac-Cen-Del got redemption in the second game of the doubleheader defeating the Knights 4-3. Tyler Bradshaw picked up the win on the mound, going all 7 innings, giving up 3 runs (2 earned) on 6 hits, walking 3 batters and striking out 1.

The Eagles continue their season next Monday at Jennings County against the Panthers.

Josh Barnett - Sports Editor

Nineteen year old Kyle Busch rallied from a last place start to take the checkered flag at the NASCAR Busch Series Meijer 300 presented by Oreo in front of 72,312 fans on Father's Day weekend at Kentucky Speedway.

Busch was forced to start last in the field of 43 cars after crashing during Friday's final practice session. He qualified second on Friday, but wrecked his car during a post-qualifying practice session.

By the 47th lap Busch had already moved from last into 10th place and was slowly working his way through the rest of the field. With 13 laps to go Busch was in third behind Greg Biffle and Jason Leffler. After passing Leffler, Busch took second with just 3 laps to go and made his move past Biffle to win by 1.274 seconds to close the gap between him and points leader Martin Truex Jr. Busch remains in second place in the points standing but cut the gap from 40 points to 10 with his win and Truex's sixth place finish.

Truex was the race pole sitter setting a Kentucky Speedway record with a qualifying lap of 180.102 MPH beating the old record by 3.718 MPH. The pole was Truex's fifth of the season and the fifth of his NASCAR Busch Series career after cutting his one-lap qualifying run. He also won the
pole last week at Nashville and began the week leading the series in victories with four and Busch Pole Awards with five, but finished the Meijer 300 in sixth place.

Behind Busch for second place was Greg Biffle followed by Mike Bliss (No. 20) in third, Ron Hornaday Jr. (No. 2) in fourth and Jason Keller (No. 22) rounded out the top five.

Racing continues at Kentucky Speedway in July with the NASCAR Craftsman Truck Series Built Ford Tough 225 on July 10.