Big sixth inning helps Knights to win over MG

By ROB HAMILTON

A huge sixth inning pro­peled Northmor’s base­ball team to a 10–1 win at Mount Gilead Wednesday.

The Knights only led 3–1 enter­ing the next-to-last inning, but were able to send 13 bat­ters to the plate and tally seven runs as they blew the game open.

“I was just hop­ing to scratch out one or two runs to get some insur­ance, but to get seven was great,” said head coach Buck Workman.

With the bases loaded with one out, Bran­don Tay­lor drove in one run with a sin­gle. A wild pitch by Indian pitcher Bran­don Tay­lor drove in another to make the score 5–1.

Mount Gilead would get the sec­ond out of the inning, but Zach Wise­man fol­lowed with an RBI sin­gle, Northmor’s Bran­don Tay­lor walked to load the bases and Ron­nie Thomas would then clear them with a three-run dou­ble to push the Knight lead to 9–1.

One more run would score on a bases loaded walk to Josh Mont­gomery, as the Knights pulled away to win by nine.

“They hit some good pitches,” said Mount Gilead coach Greg Gompf. “We kept them off-balance for most of the game, but in the sixth, they put it together.”

The Indi­ans led early in the con­test when Mike Bland opened the sec­ond inning with a solo home run. How­ever, the Knights responded with one in the third and two in the fourth.

In the third, a walk to James Don­ner and sin­gle by Zach Wise­man put run­ners on the cor­ner. Don­ner would then score on a ground­out by Northmor’s Tay­lor to tie the game.

Then, in the fourth, after Josh Corns sin­gled, Mont­gomery blasted a two-run homer to put North­mor on top to stay.

“That home run was a nice adjust­ment by Josh,” said Work­man. “On his first time up, he struck out on that same inside fastball.”

Zach Car­roll pitched for the Knights, strik­ing out nine, walk­ing four and giv­ing up two hits. Mount Gilead’s pitch­ers com­bined to strike out five and walk the same num­ber while sur­ren­der­ing 10 hits.

The com­plete story with pic­tures will be in next week’s edi­tion of the Sentinel.

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