Midway Raider Matthew Spell went four for four at the plate Friday. He singled this one in the bottom of the fourth bringing in one run.
In a 10-6 bout against the Pamlico Hurricanes the top seeded Super Six champs beat the number three seeded team from the Coastal Plains league Friday night in Midway.
Though the Hurricanes drew first blood on the score board taking a 1-0 lead, Midway answered back in the second scoring four runs. Once on base, Midway Raider Anthony Horne found a clear path to the plate as both teams stood up watching the ball sail over the left field fence from a bomb by Raider Jordan Farthing. The two run hit sparked an explosive inning by the Raiders. With no outs against them the team carried on, Josh Shaffer hit a double, bringing in one run, and Gibby Allen singled in one more.
Facing a three run deficit, the Hurricanes pulled their first pitcher Eric Hardison and put in Tayler Jackson. Jackson finished up the bottom of the second.
Midway would again come out swinging in the next inning, running away with the game as they tallied up two more. Pamlico didn’t give up; their coach Steven Hardee wouldn’t let them. “Lets go. There’s a lot of baseball in this game. You got to change it. You got to change it ... Now lets go boys,” Hardee cheered.
The coach rally cry worked for run in the top of the fourth. Slowly the Hurricanes chipped away that the five point lead making it a 6-10 game by nights end. And relentlessly, the Raiders kept up. Midway scored two in the fifth and one in the sixth.
The winning pitcher for the game was Midway Raider Matthew Spell, who was perfect at the plate going four for four.
After the game coach Hardee congratulated the Raiders on the win and wished them luck on their next game. “My hats off to both teams tonight,” both played well in a hard fought game, Hardee commented.
Raider coach Jason Fussell commented after the game. “We played good. I thought we made a few errors in the fifth. In the end, I thought we played well and offense won the game.”
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