BA: Riverton Parke And Rockville In Sectional Final

In game one the Panthers overcame a 6-1 deficit to upset Attica 13-9.

Attica used the home run to score early as Matt Wolfe blasted a two run homer in the first and Justin Capps added a 2-run homer in the second.

The Ramblers added two more runs in the 3rd inning to push the lead to 6-1 after 3 innings and had left the bases loaded in two of the innings.

The Riverton Parke comeback started in the 4th.

Trey Ellis and Jarrid McLaughlin reached on singles and Grant Mitchell blasted a 3-run homer to cut the deficit to 6-4. The next batter Coty Moretto was hit by a pitch bring a pitching change for Attica. Tyler Yando singled and Brett Brown drove in Moretto with another single. Yando would later score on a wild pitch to tie the game at 6.

Brown came in for RP on the mound in the 4th and kept the Ramblers scoreless in the 4th and 5th innings.

RP broke the game open by scoring 7 runs in the 5th.

Zach White singled, McLaughlin reached on an error, and Mitchell walked to load the bases. Two more walks to Moretto and Yando forced in two runs and brought another pitching change. Brown greeted the new pitcher with a 2 run double and Cameron Cox followed with double knocking in 2 more runs. Tim Johnson drove in Cox with a sac fly to cap the inning.

Attica would score two unearned runs in the 6th and Wolfe would home again leading off the 7th, but Brown held the Rambler bats in check to pick up the victory. In his four innings of relief he allowed 6 hits and only one earned run.

Brown led the RP offense that banged out 12 hits by going 3-4 with a double, 2 runs and 2 RBI. Cox also had 3 hits scoring once and driving in 2.

In game two Rockville scored 5 runs in the first inning and held on to down Covington 8-5.

Luke Greene led off the game with a single, Tyler Harper walked, and with one out Matt King drove in Greene with a single. Jarrod Clevenger followed with a 3 run home run and a 4-0 Rox lead. Jordan Shoaf was hit by a pitch  and scored the 5th run of the inning on an errant pick off attempt by the Trojans.

Covington cut into the lead over the next four innings scoring two runs in the 2nd, a run in the 4th on a solo home run by Michael Dinsmore, and a run in the 5th on a wild pitch  to pull within 5-4.

Rockville loaded the bases in the 5th on two hit batsmen and a walk. All three runs would score as a ball hit by Greene got through the Covington defense for an error and a throw to the plate bounced away for a second error.

King went the first 5 innings for the Rox on the mound allowing only 3 hits, walking 5 and striking out 5. After he walked the first two batters of the 6th inning he was relieved by Stephen Ball who picked up the save by striking out 3 batters in his two innings of work.

Clevenger led the Rox offense going 2-2 with a walk, scoring 2 runs and driving in 3 runs.