Tornado Warning issued May 7 at 8:24PM EDT until May 7 at 9:00PM EDT by NWS Wilmington OH (details ...)
TORILN
The National Weather Service in Wilmington has issued a
* Tornado Warning for... Northeastern Shelby County in west central Ohio... Northwestern Logan County in west central Ohio... Auglaize County in west central Ohio... East central Mercer County in west central Ohio...
* Until 900 PM EDT.
* At 824 PM EDT, a severe thunderstorm capable of producing a tornado was located near New Bremen, moving east at 45 mph.
HAZARD...Tornado.
SOURCE...Radar indicated rotation.
IMPACT...Flying debris will be dangerous to those caught without shelter. Mobile homes will be damaged or destroyed. Damage to roofs, windows, and vehicles will occur. Tree damage is likely.
* Locations impacted include... Wapakoneta, St. Marys, Fort Shawnee, New Bremen, Cridersville, Botkins, Lakeview, New Knoxville, Waynesfield, Moulton, Chickasaw, Uniopolis, Kettlersville, Fryburg, St. Johns, Bulkhead, and New Hampshire.
This includes I-75 in Ohio between mile markers 104 and 118.
Tornado Warning issued May 7 at 8:13PM EDT until May 7 at 8:45PM EDT by NWS Wilmington OH (details ...)
TORILN
The National Weather Service in Wilmington has issued a
* Tornado Warning for... Northwestern Auglaize County in west central Ohio... East central Mercer County in west central Ohio...
* Until 845 PM EDT.
* At 812 PM EDT, radar indicated that a tornado-producing storm was located over Coldwater, moving east at 45 mph.
HAZARD...Damaging tornado.
SOURCE...Weather spotters confirmed tornado. At 7:55 PM, a tornado was reported 4 miles north of Fort Recovery.
IMPACT...Flying debris will be dangerous to those caught without shelter. Mobile homes will be damaged or destroyed. Damage to roofs, windows, and vehicles will occur. Tree damage is likely.
* Locations impacted include... Celina, Wapakoneta, St. Marys, Coldwater, Moulton, Buckland, Montezuma, Neptune, Kossuth, State Route 116 at State Route 197, and Bulkhead.
Tornado Watch issued May 7 at 6:01PM EDT until May 8 at 1:00AM EDT by NWS Wilmington OH (details ...)
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HAS ISSUED TORNADO WATCH 197 IN EFFECT UNTIL 1 AM EDT WEDNESDAY FOR THE FOLLOWING AREAS
IN INDIANA THIS WATCH INCLUDES 8 COUNTIES
IN EAST CENTRAL INDIANA
FAYETTE UNION WAYNE
IN SOUTHEAST INDIANA
DEARBORN FRANKLIN OHIO RIPLEY SWITZERLAND
IN KENTUCKY THIS WATCH INCLUDES 12 COUNTIES
IN NORTHEAST KENTUCKY
LEWIS
IN NORTHERN KENTUCKY
BOONE BRACKEN CAMPBELL CARROLL GALLATIN GRANT KENTON MASON OWEN PENDLETON ROBERTSON
IN OHIO THIS WATCH INCLUDES 32 COUNTIES
IN CENTRAL OHIO
DELAWARE FAIRFIELD FAYETTE FRANKLIN HOCKING LICKING MADISON PICKAWAY UNION
IN SOUTH CENTRAL OHIO
ADAMS HIGHLAND PIKE ROSS SCIOTO
IN SOUTHWEST OHIO
BROWN BUTLER CLERMONT CLINTON HAMILTON WARREN
IN WEST CENTRAL OHIO
AUGLAIZE CHAMPAIGN CLARK DARKE GREENE HARDIN LOGAN MERCER MIAMI MONTGOMERY PREBLE SHELBY
THIS INCLUDES THE CITIES OF ABERDEEN, ADA, ALEXANDRIA, AUGUSTA, AURORA, BATESVILLE, BEAVERCREEK, BELLEFONTAINE, BELLEVUE, BLANCHESTER, BRIGHT, BROOKSVILLE, BROOKVILLE, BURLINGTON, BUTLER, CAMDEN, CAMP DIX, CARROLLTON, CELINA, CHILLICOTHE, CIRCLEVILLE, COLDWATER, CONNERSVILLE, COVINGTON, CRITTENDEN, DAY HEIGHTS, DAYTON, DELAWARE, DILLSBORO, DOWNTOWN CINCINNATI, DOWNTOWN COLUMBUS, DOWNTOWN DAYTON, DRY RIDGE, EATON, ERLANGER, FAIRBORN, FAIRFIELD, FALMOUTH, FLORENCE, FORT THOMAS, FRANKLIN, GEORGETOWN, GREENDALE, GREENFIELD, GREENVILLE, HAMILTON, HEAD OF GRASSY, HIDDEN VALLEY, HIGHLAND HEIGHTS, HILLSBORO, INDEPENDENCE, KENTON, KETTERING, LANCASTER, LANDEN, LAWRENCEBURG, LEBANON, LIBERTY, LOGAN, LONDON, MANCHESTER, MARYSVILLE, MASON, MAYSVILLE, MIDDLETOWN, MILAN, MILFORD, MINSTER, MOUNT CARMEL, MOUNT OLIVET, MOUNT ORAB, MOUNT REPOSE, MULBERRY, NEW BREMEN, NEWARK, NEWPORT, OAKBROOK, OSGOOD, OWENTON, OXFORD, PEEBLES, PICKERINGTON, PIKE LAKE, PIKETON, PIQUA, PLAIN CITY, PORTSMOUTH, RICHMOND, RIPLEY, RISING SUN, SEAMAN, SIDNEY, SPRINGBORO, SPRINGFIELD, ST. MARYS, SUMMERSIDE, TIPP CITY, TOLLESBORO, TROY, URBANA, VANCEBURG, VERSAILLES, VEVAY, WAPAKONETA, WARSAW, WASHINGTON COURT HOUSE, WAVERLY, WEST COLLEGE CORNER, WEST JEFFERSON, WEST UNION, WHEELERSBURG, WILLIAMSTOWN, WILMINGTON, WINCHESTER, WITHAMSVILLE, AND XENIA.
59° 59° likely Wed 80° Wed 80° 57° 57° Thu 64° Thu 64°
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Thursday, May 21st, 2015

Parkway pulls away from Tinora in 6th

Division III District Softball

By Colin Foster
Photo by Mark Pummell/The Daily Standard

Parkway shortstop Alyx Slusher gets ready to put the tag on Tinora's Ashley Mack during the sixth inning of a Division III district semifinal softball game Wednesday night at Bath High School.

BATH TOWNSHIP - Parkway was having problems finding holes in Tinora's defense for the first five innings of Wednesday's Division III district semifinal.
That, however, wasn't an issue in the sixth.
With just one hit entering the frame, the Panthers ripped off five sixth-inning hits and scored four runs to pull away from the Rams for a 7-1 victory and earn a spot in Friday's district final where they will face Fairview.
Parkway's Kayle Heckler scored on an error in the first inning, and that run held up until the bottom of the fifth.
"We hit a lot of balls right at people (early in the game)," Parkway coach Mark Esselstein said. "To Tinora's credit, other than that one hiccup in the first inning, they played great defense."
Kaitlyn Pscoldna tied the game at 1-all with a solo home run in the fifth. All that did, though, was awaken a sleeping giant.
Heckler and Alyx Slusher began the sixth with back-to-back doubles, with Heckler scoring on the latter. Haley Hawk and Selena Burtch each had RBI singles, and Alisa Gray drove in a run with a double to the gap.
"She hadn't gotten good swings before and then all of a sudden, she unloaded. That was a great hit," said Esselstein about Pscoldna's homer. "You know, our kids were a little bit quieter than we like them to be, and I think that did serve as an impetus that we needed to bounce back and answer that. I thought we did a good job of answering."
Parkway (20-3) added two insurance runs in the seventh on Terra Walls' two-run single with two outs.
Heckler pitched the first five innings for the Panthers and allowed four hits, one earned run and struck out two in a winning effort. Katelin Augsburger was lights out over the final two innings, striking out five and giving up one hit to lockdown the game.
"We've pretty much gone with three pitchers all year," Esselstein said. "Kayle's been our starter and Katelin's a really good change of pace. She throws harder and she gives (opponents) a different look. She pounds the strike zone. They hit a couple good balls off of her but she also blew it by them a little bit. It was a good job of stepping in and she did what we needed of her."
Burtch was the only multiple hitter for Parkway, finishing 2-for-3 with an RBI. Ali Cheek led the Rams with a 2-for-4 day.
Top-seeded Fairview enters Friday's contest coming off an 8-0 win against sixth-seeded Kenton in Tuesday's district semi. The Apaches and Panthers play at 5 p.m. on Friday at Bath High School.
"They're a great team," Esselstein said. "We know them pretty well. We've scrimmaged them the last couple years, played them in the regular season two years ago. They've got five or six really good seniors, a senior pitcher who really knows what she's doing out there, aggressive hitters. We're obviously going to have to start swinging the bats, and when we get runners on base, we're going to have to cash in.
"We've done a good job swinging the bats and the pitchers have done a good job all year. We're just going to have to keep doing what we're doing. A good team is going to win one way or the other."
Photo by Mark Pummell/The Daily Standard

Parkway's Terra Walls had a two-run single in Wednesday's victory.

Photo by Mark Pummell/The Daily Standard

Parkway's Katelin Augsburger slides safely into home during the sixth inning of Wednesday's game at Bath High School.

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