Aviators Blank Bucs 11-0 In Run-Rule Win

XENIA — It didn’t take long.

Not for Butler to score - but for the game to settle into something familiar.

The Aviators put three on the board in the first. Jack Egbert lined a single to score two. Tate Richardson followed with a double. No flash to it. Just swings that found space and runners that kept moving.

And from there, it never really changed.

Davis Ketterer took the ball with a lead and made sure it stayed that way.

Six innings. Four hits. No walks. Seven strikeouts. But more than the numbers, it was the fact that Xenia never threatened. There wasn’t an inning that went sideways, or even close. He worked ahead, stayed there, and let the defense play behind him.

That was enough. It usually is for these Aviators.

Butler added on in the fourth — three more runs, same as the first. Not a big swing, just better at-bats stacked together until it turned into something.

By the sixth, it was 6–0.

Then they finished it.

Five runs in the inning, and this time the hits came quicker. Schilling drove one to the gap for two. Egbert doubled again. Richardson stayed through the middle for another. The line kept moving, and the inning got away in a hurry.

That’s when it became final.

Thirteen hits when it was done. Egbert, Schilling, Richardson, Koby Dues, Carson Heis, and Aidan White all with two. Three RBIs each for Egbert, Schilling, and White. Dues added a pair of stolen bases.

Clean defensively, too. No errors. No extra chances. Schilling handled everything behind the plate.

Butler 11, Xenia 0.

It wasn’t tight. It wasn’t complicated. It was another Butler Baseball clinic.

They scored early. They added when it was there. And once they had it, they never gave it back.

The Aviators (15-1, 10-1) host Piqua under the lights Friday at 7:00 pm, in the nightcap of the Strike Out Cancer doubleheader, with the Aviators softballers getting things started at 5:00 pm.