After coming off a split with the Michigan Monarchs on Thursday the Gold team hosted Shannon Fence on Saturday and Canton Terriers on Sunday at Carter Park in Bowling Green. Gold dropped the first game to Shannon Fence 2 to 9, but came back to win the second game of the double header 9 to 5. Gold then came back on Sunday and swept Canton Terriers 5 to 3 in both games.

In the first game against Shannon, Gold couldn’t get their sticks going as they only had two hits by Brian Bilius and Jake Cappeletty for the offense. Shannon racked up 9 hits to score their 9 runs. Gold came back strong in the second game with 8 hits. In the first inning Kyle O’Connell led off with a single and was moved around the bases by Brian Bilius. Cory Hornyak then hit a hard shot single to score both O’Connell and Bilius to put Gold on the board with two runs. 

Oregon, OH - Sunday, July 12th was another sunny day at the ballpark. This time the Monarchs Blue took on the Youngstown Metros for two games.

Cody Fisher was the starting pitcher for game one. Fisher pitched two and two-thirds innings, giving up 3 runs, walking one and striking out six, 4 of which started the game. Corey Cannon came on to finish out the third and pitched through 3 batters in the 6th inning. Cannon allowed two runs, walked one and struck out two. Ethan Salsbury completed the 6th and finished up the game. Salsbury gave up two runs, walked one and struck out one.

The Ohio Monarchs Gold swept the Michigan Monarchs in two close competitive games at Bowman field Wednesday. Gold shutout Michigan both games winning the first game 3 to 0 and the second game 2 to 0 .The pitching was rock solid on both sides with Josh Stidham (6-0) pitching an awesome 5 1/3 innings for the Gold and holding the Michigan Monarchs to just one hit with 6 strikeouts, while Bret Kuebler came in to close the game in his usual fashion and secured the shutout. Michigan’s Ludwig threw a 4 hitter in his 5 innings of pitching.