Batavia United got its season off to a fast start on Tuesday, scoring three goals in the first period on its way to a 6-1 win over the WFL-Geneva Panthers. The first goal came at 2:02 on a power play with Jameson Motyka and Brady Johnson feeding Cooper Hamilton. Later in the quarter, both Motyka and Ronin Hofmaster would score with assists from Hamilton and Jake Hutchins.
Catherine Elaine Knibbs passed away Friday, December 10 after a valiant battle with COVID-19. Her adventurous life began March 21, 1945, in Chicago, I.
John Grindrod: A final press box view of Lima’s boys of summer
By John Grindrod - Guest Columnist
WIMA sports director and play-by-play announcer Todd Walker shields his eyes from the setting sun during Saturday night’s championship game of the Great Lakes Summer Collegiate League.
John Grindrod | For The Lima News
We realize, save for Shawnee graduate Jake Hutchins this season, that our Lima Locos don’t really live here full time, but don’t try telling that to the core Loco fans who pretty much adopt them each summer, hoping for their favorite sound effect that emanates from the Simmons Field press box, that train whistle heard whenever a Loco dents home plate from early June to August’s threshold.