Noah Harden went 3-for-4 with five RBI to back the pitching of Alex Perry to lead Polk County to a 12-2 victory over Mountain Heritage in Friday’s Western Highlands Conference baseball game in Burnsville.
Perry earned the win on the mound, pitching six innings and allowing five hits and two earned runs with one walk and six strikeouts. He pitched five scoreless innings before Mountain Heritage pushed across two runs in the sixth.
The Wolverines took a 1-0 lead in the first inning on Perry’s sacrifice fly, then added a run in the third when Gunnar Alm launched a solo home run to left field.
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Polk County broke the game open with four runs in the fifth inning to extend the lead to 6-0. Zalen McCraw singled and scored on Matt Jarrett’s RBI single, then Harden and Perry added RBI singles before Nate Fagan’s single drove in another run.
The Wolverines added three more runs in the sixth to push the advantage to 9-0. Alm singled home one run and Harden followed with a two-run single.
Mountain Heritage scored twice in the bottom of the sixth to avoid the shutout, but Polk County answered with three runs in the seventh to invoke the 10-run rule. Jarrett scored on an error, and Harden capped the scoring with a two-run single.
The game ended in the top of the seventh by mutual agreement between both teams under the run rule.
Alm finished 2-for-3 with the home run, two RBI, three runs scored and two stolen bases. Harden’s five RBIs led the offensive attack, while Perry went 2-for-3 with two RBIs.
Jarrett added a hit and scored three runs, McCraw contributed a hit and scored twice and Tanner McKinney singled and scored a run. Fagan drove in one run.
