The Miners picked up their fourth win in five games with a 7-6 win over the Stallions on Sunday night at Elmer Kelley Stadium. Despite being outhit 14-5, the Miners had enough pitching at key times to hold the Stallions back and secure the win. Graham Hackbarth provided the big offensive blow for the Miners, clubbing a grand slam home run in the bottom of the third inning. The bullpen…
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Saturday Night RAINED OUT!
The Miners home game scheduled for tonight against the Hoptown Hoppers got RAINED OUT by a line of severe weather moving through western Kentucky this afternoon. The game has been re-scheduled for Monday, June 11, at 7pm CT. #wedigbaseball
Miners Bounce Back From Loss Thursday With Win Friday
The Miners split a pair of road games late this week, losing to the Bombers 8-3 in Dubois County, Indiana, on Thursday and winning over the Stallions 15-11 in Muhlenberg County on Friday. For the official box score from Thursday night’s loss in Dubois County, click here: Dubois_County_Bombers_vs_Madisonville_Miners_Jun_7_2018 For the official box score from Friday night’s win in Muhlenberg County, click here: Muhlenberg_County_Stallions_vs_Madisonville_Miners_Jun_8_2018 The Miners (3-5) host the division-leading Hoptown…
Miners Defeat Chiefs 7-3 Wednesday Night
The Miners picked up their second straight win with a 7-3 win over the Paducah Chiefs Wednesday night at Elmer Kelley. Madisonville jumped out to a 7-0 lead after only three innings of play, but Paducah scored three in the top of the seventh inning to put some pressure on the Miners bullpen. Things got very interesting when the Chiefs loaded the bases with two outs in the top of…
Miners Down Flash 9-3 at Elmer Kelley
The Miners got their first win of the season Tuesday night, downing the Henderson Flash 9-3 at Elmer Kelley Stadium. After surrendering a run in the top of the first, Madisonville answered with two runs in the second, third, fourth, and fifth innings to take a commanding 8-2 lead into the sixth. Both teams picked up one more run each in the eighth inning for the final margin. Madisonville finished…
2018 Miners Season Underway!
The 2018 edition of the Madisonville Miners is in town, and the season is underway! While the team (and the website) is off to a bumpy start, we look forward to getting the ship righted and having an exciting 2018 season! Miners Arrive Memorial Day The team arrived in Madisonville on Memorial Day and met for their first practice at Elmer Kelley Stadium. The Spring rains cut practice short, but…
Miners Announce 2018 Head Coach
The Madisonville Miners are pleased to announce that Franklin Bush has been hired as the Head Coach for the 2018 season. Bush is in his first season as an assistant coach at University of Montevallo after spending the 2016 season at the University of Buffalo. While at UB, Bush helped coach hitting and the infielders. Bush also served as an assistant coach for his alma mater Blackburn College for one…
New Team Ownership and New Team Name in Owensboro
The Owensboro RiverDawgs take over for the Owensboro Oilers The OVL franchise in Owensboro recently changed hands and the team will now play as the Owensboro RiverDawgs. Welcome to the Ohio Valley League, RiverDawgs! #wedigbaseball
an open letter from OVL president cubb stokes
July 31, 2017 From the President’s Desk What a great season we have had in 2017! This year we had a record high eight teams in the league and for the first time in our history, we had divisional play: four teams in the East and four teams in the West. This format created our first divisional playoff schedule and what a playoff we had. Both #1 seeds advanced to…
Miners Lose Game 1 in Henderson 15-3
GAME 1 COVERAGE COURTESY OF THE MADISONVILLE MESSENGER, Jesse Mayfield-Sheehan, Reporter HENDERSON — Not much went right for the Madisonville Miners in Game One of the First Round of the Ohio Valley League Playoffs, losing to the Henderson Flash on Friday, 15-3. Miners pitcher Austin Henrich got off to an uncharacteristically bad start on the mound, as the Flash rallied for three runs in the first inning, and then a…
