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Vikings squeak past Westview in 8 innings

A hit batter with two outs in the bottom of the eight inning led to the Huntington North High School baseball team pushing in the winning run against visiting Westview in a 4-3 win on Tuesday, May 22.

Neither team had scored since the third inning when the Vikings’ Trey Williams got hit by a pitch with two outs. After a stolen base, Dane Fife reached  base on a Westview error, then both runners moved up on a passed ball. A walk to Levi Bennett loaded the bases before a walk to pinch-hitter Mason Landrum forced in the winning run to push HNHS to 24-4 on the season.

The Vikings scored a pair of runs in the first inning, the first coming home on a Jarret Gray groundout and the second on a Williams single. Westview scored a trio in the top of the third to take the lead, but the Vikings struck back to knot things on a walk to Collin Landrum, a stolen base, a walk to Ian McCutcheon, an Elliott Lesperance single and another Gray groundout.

The Vikings managed only five hits in the contest, while Westview banged out 11.

Levi Bennett went the first three innings and gave up three earned runs on five hits, with two strikeouts and one walk. Williams pitched the next two frames scoreless, with two hits and two strikeouts. Lesperance then threw two more scoreless frames, yielding three hits with two strikeouts and one walk, and Ian McCutcheon got the win by pitching a scoreless eighth, allowing one hit with one strikeout and one walk.