Apple Valley Middle scored four runs in the fifth inning to pull away from Polk County Middle and take an 8-6 victory in Thursday’s Blue Ridge Conference baseball game at Polk County Recreation Complex.
The Knights (6-1) jumped to a 4-0 lead through two innings before Polk County rallied with two runs in the third and three in the fourth to take a 5-4 lead.
The Wolverines’ third-inning rally began when Brantley Hall singled and Callaway Cameron was hit by a pitch. Carter Wood followed with a single that scored both runners on an error to make it 4-2.
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Polk Middle (4-6) took the lead in the fourth when Gunnar Price walked and Reece Turner followed with a two-out walk. Hall singled home Price to pull within 4-3, then Cameron ripped a triple down the right-field line into the corner that drove in Turner and Hall to give the Wolverines a 5-4 advantage.
Apple Valley regained the lead with four runs in the fifth to go ahead 8-5, then held off a late Polk County rally. The Wolverines scored once in the seventh when Cameron walked, stole third and scored on Lawson Yoder’s groundout to make it 8-6, but could get no closer.
Hall led Polk County with a 3-for-4 effort with two runs scored and an RBI. Cameron went 1-for-2 with two runs, two RBI and a triple, while Wood finished 2-for-3. Joshua Odel added a hit and Yoder drove in a run.
Reece Turner pitched three innings and Wood threw four innings.
