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Midview Softball celebrates Senior Day with sweep of Buckeye
Posted: Apr 18, 2026

Midview Softball celebrates Senior Day with sweep of Buckeye

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Midview Varsity Softball celebrated Senior Day with a 5-1 and 10-4 sweep of visiting Buckeye High School Saturday (April 18) on the new turf of MHS.

The match-up brought together two of the top teams in the OHSAA Division III Northeast District for a key, early season non-conference test. Buckeye stepped up to play after Brookside had to cancel late Friday due to injuries. 

The Bucks (9-3) took a 1-0 lead in the first inning of game one. The Middies (8-4, 3-2 SWC) finally got on the board with a four-run fifth. Junior Dezirae Thomas laced a lead-off home run to left center. Three batters later, sophomore Jillian Vandersluis hit a three-run bomb to left to give her squad a 4-1 advantage. Midview tacked on an insurance run when senior Nina Ballachino (2-for-3) connected on a solo home run in the sixth. The home runs accounted for three of Midview's four hits in the game.

Junior Savannah Holcomb (6-2) scatterd one run on two hits, walked two and struck out eight to earn the win.

It was Midview who struck early in game two, as it put up five runs on six hits in the top of the first. Vandersluis (2-for-4) drove in a run with single, while freshman Hailey Dye blasted her second grand slam of the season. After Buckeye plated a pair of runs in the third, the Middies added a run on a Dye ground out in the fifth. Thomas later scored a run on an error off the bat of junior Savannah Presser with two outs in the sixth. The Bucks plated two more in the sixth, only for Thomas (3-for-5) to drive in a run on a single, and Ballachino and Presser to add RBI groundouts to make it 10-4.

Vandersluis (2-2) earned the complete-game win. She allowed four runs on seven hits, walked two and struck out three. Sophomore Arrianna Presser and junior Mallory Hechko both added a pair of Midview's 13 hits in the win.

The Middies open a busy eight-game week with a Southwestern Conference doubleheader against visiting Avon Lake High School on Monday (April 20). First pitch of game one will be 4 p.m.