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SIDNEY — Sophomore Carson Heis handed Tate Richardson the ball in the third inning with a 2-1 lead and a job to do. Richardson did a little more than that Friday evening in Sidney. The Butler righty proceeded to throw five innings of one-hit, zero-run baseball — striking out seven without issuing a single walk — and then, as if the pitching dominance wasn’t enough, stepped to the plate in the top of the seventh and launched a three-run homer to right field to cap a five-run

VANDALIA - Davis Ketterer went 2-for-2 Wednesday. He also threw five innings of shutout baseball, walked nobody, and did it all in 59 pitches. There’s a word for that kind of afternoon. Efficient isn’t quite right. Complete is closer. But the one that keeps coming back is…easy. Not because it was easy — Sidney is a program that knows how to play — but because Ketterer made it look that way. And in baseball, that’s its own kind of skill. The Aviators (6-0, 2-0) won 10-0. Five

GREENVILLE - There’s something about the first league game of the year. It doesn’t matter how many scrimmages you’ve played, or how well you looked down in Myrtle Beach. When the Miami Valley League schedule opens up and there’s another column of standings on the line…that’s when you find out something real about a baseball team. Butler found out Monday. And so did Greenville. The Aviators (5-0) traveled to face the Green Wave in what amounted to the first real measuring sti

MYRTLE BEACH, SC — The inning kept getting longer. That was the first thing you noticed. Not the score — not yet — just how long Batavia had to stay out there while Butler kept sending another hitter up, and another, and another, until there wasn’t much left to do but wait for it to end. By the time it finally did, eight runs had scored, and a semi-close game had turned into a 15–3 Butler (4-0) win Thursday evening at The Ripken Experience. It didn’t start there. The shape of

MYRTLE BEACH, SC — By now, the routine has settled in. Third game in two days. Same fields. Same purpose. And Tuesday afternoon, the Aviators looked like a prototypical Butler team—one accustomed to doing things the right way. In the second game of a doubleheader at The Ripken Experience, Butler shook off an early deficit and methodically wore down Liverpool, pulling away for an 11–5 win behind a six-run fourth inning that felt less like a surge and more like a statement. Th

MYRTLE BEACH, SC — Koby Dues didn’t need long to make his presence felt Tuesday morning. Neither did Butler. The Aviators opened their doubleheader at The Ripken Experience with a 14–4 win over Lower Merion, breaking open a tight game in a middle-inning surge. Dues set the tone. The junior shortstop went 3-for-4 with three runs scored and three RBI, delivering the game’s defining swing in the fourth—a three-run home run to right that stretched a two-run lead into something f

MYRTLE BEACH, SC – It didn’t take Butler long Monday evening. The Aviators (1-0) opened the 2026 season with a 19–8 run-rule win over Naperville Central (IL), and by the time the first inning ended, there wasn’t much left to figure out. It also marked the 650th career win for Butler coach Trent Dues. And fittingly, it came the way his teams have won a lot of them—by putting pressure on from the start. They scored 12 runs in that first. The lineup turned over. And by the end

VANDALIA - They never got to breathe. That was the difference. From the first inning on, Butler was working uphill Thursday night — not in one overwhelming moment, but in a steady climb that never quite leveled off in a 12-9 final scrimmage loss to Lebanon. And sometimes, that’s the hardest kind of game to win. Lebanon set the tone before Butler ever settled in. Three runs in the first. Three more in the second. And by the time the third inning closed, the Aviators were star

VANDALIA - There’s a rhythm to early-season baseball that doesn’t always show up in the final score. Tuesday night at Butler had plenty of scoring — 24 runs between the two teams — but what mattered most wasn’t how often the Aviators crossed the plate. It was how they handled the stretches in between. Because this one asked something of them. And they answered. Butler’s 14-10 scrimmage win over Beavercreek didn’t settle in easily. It moved, shifted, and at times felt like it

VANDALIA - Works wins. On Saturday afternoon, the Aviators showed that grit wins too. No big inning. No crooked number that flipped the game. Just ten innings of baseball that Butler controlled a little at a time until there wasn’t much left for Wapakoneta to take. That’s how this one unfolded, a 3–1 scrimmage win that said more about how Butler plays than how many runs they scored. Because from the start, it belonged to the arms. Senior Davis Ketterer set the tone with thre

VANDALIA - It didn’t feel like March in Ohio. Seventy degrees. Sun overhead. The kind of afternoon that draws a crowd and breathes life back into a baseball field that has sat dormant through a long winter. And for Butler, it showed. By the time it was over, the Aviators had taken care of Centerville, 11–1, in their first look at the 2026 season. But like most preseason baseball, the score wasn’t the story as much as the way it came together. They didn’t wait long. Butler pu

VANDALIA — There is a phrase posted around the Butler baseball program this season. Work Wins. It is not flashy. It is not provocative. And inside the Butler program, it is not a slogan as much as it is a reminder — of how things have been done here for a long time. Before the Aviators became an annual fixture among the area’s elite, before records and rankings and championship conversations, the work came first. The kind of work that doesn’t always show up on a scoreboard.

OXFORD — On a stage they fought all season to reach, the Aviators finally met a challenge they couldn’t outrun. Facing a battle-tested...

OXFORD — This time of year, the number of teams playing shrinks. The crowds grow. The pressure ratchets up. And if you want to keep...

HAMILTON — Tournament baseball often hinges on the little things — a bunt here, a throw there, a break that rolls your way. In a game...

VANDALIA — If defense wins championships, Butler took a mighty step toward one Wednesday night. With a trip to the district final on the...

VANDALIA — They say blondes have more fun. Wednesday, Butler showed they score more runs, too. With postseason baseball officially...

VANDALIA — The Aviators honored decades of Butler baseball before first pitch — and for five innings, nearly delivered the kind of...

GREENVILLE — The baseball gods don’t often smile on perfection. Too many hops. Too many arms. Too many ways for a game — or a season — to...

RIVERSIDE — You could feel it coming. Not the wind. Not the rain. Butler’s seventh inning. Tense for five innings, up 3-2, with just two...