WELEETKA - The Henryetta Golden Knight varsity baseball team held off the host Weleetka Outlaws Tuesday evening to earn an 8-7 victory. Tuesday's narrow win over Weleetka puts the Knights
WELEETKA - The Henryetta Golden Knight varsity baseball team held off the host Weleetka Outlaws Tuesday evening to earn an 8-7 victory.
Tuesday's narrow win over Weleetka puts the Knights at 14-8 on the year, heading into Thursday's home game against Kellyville.
The Henryetta diamond squad will also be at home Monday, taking on their arch rivals, the Morris Eagles, in a 4:30 p.m. showdown. The Knights will close out next week's schedule at the annual Sonic Classic baseball tournament in Okmulgee next Thursday-Saturday.
In Tuesday's road game at Weleetka, the Knights opened the scoring with a run in the top of the first.
Weleetka knotted the score at 1-1 with a run in the bottom of the third.
Henryetta took back the lead at 2-1 with a run in the top of the fourth, then added five runs in the top of the fifth to extend the Knights' lead to six, 7-1, after four and one-half innings of action.
A pair of runs by the Outlaws in the home half of the fifth to cut the Henryetta lead to four, 7-3.
The Knights increased their lead to 8-3 with a run in the top of the sixth, while Weleetka plated three runs in the frame to make it an 8-6 contest.
After the Henryetta offense failed to produce any runs in the top of the seventh, the Knights defense held Weleetka to one run in the bottom of the seventh to walk away with a narrow 8-7 victory.
Jared Montgomery worked the first six innings on the mound for Henryetta to earn the pitching win. Montgomery gave up six runs on three hits, striking out six, walking two, and hitting seven.
Ethan Wincle took over in the seventh, giving up one run on two hits with one strikeout, one walk, and one hit batter in his inning of relief work to earn the pitching save.
The Knights scattered 12 hits in the contest, led by Montgomery, who went 3 for 4 with a pair of singles, a double, and an RBI.
Other Henryetta batters with multi-hit games against Weleetka were Wincle (2 for 3, single, double, 2 RBIs), Ethan Palmer (2 for 4, 2 singles, 3 RBIs), and Jerad Fife (2 for 4, 2 doubles, RBI) with two hits apiece.
The other three base hits for the Knights came on singles by Jean Pixler and Cameron McKinney and an RBI single by Andrew Morris.
Other baserunners for Henryetta against Weleetka were Montgomery (dropped third strike), Wincle (walk), Fife (fielder's choice), Pixler (error), Drew Brown (walk, error), and Brodie Graffman (walk).