Down three nothing, the word finally spread, the team seemed to wake up and respond with one in the third, one in the fourth and finally five in the fifth. Alas it was not enough.
In the third, "Strike Zone" Mitchell Smith earned his fourth walk of the day. He moved to third on Jimmy Sheldrup's single and was brought home by Ben Thomson's sacrafice fly to deep center.
In the fourth Stuart Fairchild singled and was driven home by Campbell Queen's double.
The fun for Magnolia started in the fifth. Lead off walks to John Peterson and Jimmy Sheldrup were followed by Ben Thomson's RBI single. Stuart Fairchild then hit a booming double to score two followed by hot hitting Campbell Queen's two RBI single. This gave MBC a 7-4 lead that seemed enough to the sleep walking crew.
John Peterson started and threw four innings. Nick Reeves relieved and after throwing two easy innings ran into trouble in the seventh.
The Merchants got a couple of cheap hits, a couple of questionable walks and despite a heads up call by savvy second baseman Keenan Heller to pick a man off second the Merchants final hitter still managed to somehow run into a ball to send the sleep walking MBC team home, wondering what happened.
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