Clinton High’s Dark Horses stormed the Wallace-Rose Hill Bulldogs this Thursday in baseball, taking advantage of early steep leads to push the game to call for a foul weather forfeit.
Wallace-Rose Hill had the game looking up at a first inning run for a slight early lead. The Dark Horses responded in kind: the home team came up with two in the bottom of the first. Then, in a silent top of the second, the Dark Horses swung back harder. Greylon Barwick, Logan Carr, Charles Jordan and Trey Warren all took home base as the sky darkened overhead, opening the third with an 8-1 advantage.
The visiting team came back in the third inning with a bolstered offensive strategy––they couldn’t break through the Dark Horses, however. It was a standoff that went two ways: Wallace-Rose’s pitching and defensive line this inning proved equally matched with Clinton’s hard batting. 8-1 still, and the clouds hung low.
A silent third gave way to an equally matched fourth, with both the Bulldogs and the Dark Horses both scoring a single run. Hunter Tucker took the final run of the night for Wallace-Rose as the game folded into a fifth inning. Bulldog bats went silent in the top of the fifth as Clinton, however, owned the inning.
The Dark Horses dashed across the home plate three times that final inning as the rain started to come on, quicker and harder, a rolling storm in what was a crystal blue sky only 20 minutes beforehand.
The surprising conditions and insurmountable lead for the home team pushed a 12-2 call, a win which closes the Dark Horse baseball season with an evenly split 9-9 record. Wallace-Rose ends their season as well, concluding with a record of 7-15.