Andrew Grimm ON THE RUN — Big Red's AJ Borsch races to third base after hitting one of his two triples during Monday's game at Weir High.

Big Red, however, found ways to get their runners in — and kept getting them in — on the way to a 15-4 victory at a cold, windy Red Rider Field.

“We got guys on, battled at the plate and found ways to make sure we got them in,” Big Red head coach Justin Banks said. “Whether it was a walk, a hit, putting the ball in play, whatever they had to do, they did it to get the runs in. It worked and we’re proud of them.

“It’s a good way to start the week, now we have to keep it going.”

Steubenville, now 9-3, jumped ahead early when Jagger Rawson hit a two-out bases-clearing triple and they never trailed from there.

Andrew Grimm ON THE MOUND — Weir High's Liam Williamson works in relief against Big Red.

Big Red had two more big innings — a four-run third and a five-run seventh — to pull away.

Matt Fabbro fired 5 1/3 innings for the win on the mound, striking our six, walking two and hitting three batters. He was lifted just shy of 100 pitches. All four runs the Red Riders scored were unearned as a result of five Big Red errors.

There were a combined nine errors and 13 walks in the game, the temperature being in the low 40s probably playing a factor.

“The biggest thing was making sure our arms were OK,” Banks said of the challenge of the unseasonably cold weather. “Matthew came in every inning and we were asking him how he felt. All the guys, we were making sure they stayed warm, stayed loose. It showed because they came out and put up 15 runs and stayed loose the whole game.”

Weir (8-11) loaded the bases in the bottom of the first, got run in on an error, but was not able to get any closer than 3-1 out of the big opportunity.

Andrew Grimm MAKING A PLAY — Big Red's Nick Lovato fires across from third base for an out.

After a scoreless second inning in which Fabbro struck out the side, Rawson came up with the bases crowded in again in the third inning an singled, a Red Rider error aiding in turning the lead into a 7-1 advantage.

After Weir got another run on an error in the fourth, but left the bases loaded, an RBI groundout from Chase Beall in the fifth and AJ Borsch in the sixth made it 9-2 Big Red before Karson Simmons drew a walk with the bases loaded to push the lead to eight.

After a Big Red error, a hit batter and a single loaded in the bottom of the sixth, Aleks Zanieski and Matt Geer both grounded out and plated a run to cut the margin to 10-4, Beall coming on and getting out of the inning before any more runs crossed.

In the top of the seventh, however, Big Red made sure any momentum the Red Riders were building was squashed, Nolan Blackburn hitting a two-run single, AJ Borsch tripling in two more runs and another run crossing on an error all before the Red Riders recorded the first out, providing the final margin.

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Andrew Grimm DELIVERY — Big Red's Matt Fabbro fires a pitch against Weir High.

Big Red: Returns home today to host Edison.

Weir High: Travels to Wheeling Central today.

Big Red 15, Weir High 4

BR 3-0-4 0-1-2 5 — 15 9 5

WH 1-0-0 1-0-2 0 — 4 5 4

BIG RED (9-3): Fabbro (WP,5 1/3IP, 4R, 0ER, 5H, 6K, 2BB, 3HBP), Beall (1 2/3IP, 0R, 0H, 0K, 1BB) and Simmons. Borsch 2T, 3RBIs; Rawson D, S, 6RBIs; Mayo D; Bowers S; Fabbro S; Blackburn 2S, 2RBIs; Beall RBI.

WEIR HIGH (8-11): Geer (LP, 4IP, 7R, 5ER, 3H, 1K, 5BB, 2HBP), Williamson (1 2/3IP, 3R, 1ER, 2H, 2K, 3BB, 1HBP), Moore (1/3IP, 1R, 1ER, 0H, 2BB), Glyptis (1IP, 4R, 3ER, 4H, 0K, 0BB) and Williamson. Zanieski S, RBI; Geer RBI; Glyptis S; Glass S; DiMatteis S.