Tri-Valley White 14U scored five runs in the bottom of the sixth to win a back-and-forth game against Garretson on Friday, June 18th.
Garretson scored four times in the top of the first inning. Tri-Valley answered with four of their own in the bottom of the inning for a 4-4 score. Both teams scored a run in the second inning. Tri-Valley took their first lead in the bottom of the third when Denton Bicknase scored on a wild pitch.
Garretson tied the game 6-6 in the top of the fourth inning, but Tri-Valley scored three more in the bottom of the inning. Parker Hemme scored on a wild pitch, Grant Schlueter had an RBI sacrifice fly, and Gage Egger scored on a passed ball for a 9-6 lead. Garretson tied the game, 9-9, in the top of the sixth with three runs. Tri-Valley then had a five-run sixth inning to take the lead for good. Egger scored again on a passed ball after a lead-off triple. Schlueter had an RBI ground out, Bicknase had a two-run single, and Hemme had a bases-loaded walk for the fifth run.
Bicknase had three hits and three RBIs. Egger had a triple and an RBI. Dylan Christensen had a hit and an RBI. Landon Schenkel had a double. Schlueter had two RBIs, and Hemme and Levi Kretzschmar both had an RBI.
Schenkel pitched four innings allowing six runs, five earned, on eight hits with three walks and seven strikeouts. Bicknase pitched an inning getting two strikeouts, and Egger pitched 1 2/3 innings allowing four runs, one earned, on three hits with one walk and three strikeouts.