SIDNEY – The Covington Buccaneers put together a solid game in a 3-2 victory over Lehman Catholic on Friday.

The win improves Covington’s record to 2-4 overall and 1-3 in the TRC.

Senior hurler Tyler Jay captured the win on the mound as he went the distance with a very great performance, Jay struck out five batters, walked just one batter and allowed just four hits throughout seven innings.

Offensively, the Buccaneers wrapped up nine hits with Caiden Hollingsworth, Ashton Skaggs, Brairen Denson and Tyler Palsgrove all connecting on two hits each. Tanner Palsgrove and his brother Tyler Palsgrove drove in a run each and Tyler also stole two of the five stolen bases accumulated by the Buccaneers.

The game started out tight as neither team was able to score a run until the Buccaneers put two runners across the plate in the top of the fourth inning.

Covington scored another run in the top of them fifth to take a 3-0 lead, but Lehamn put the Buccs in tension by scoring two runs in the bottom of the sixth to cut the advantage to 3-2.

Fortunately the Buccaneers closed out the game for a victory by holding Lehman in check in the final inning.

Next the Buccaneers travel to Minster on Monday.

	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	R	H	E
BUCCS	0	0	0	2	1	0	0	3	9	2
CAVS	0	0	0	0	0	2	0	2	4	1