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What part of Wayne County's game with Kinston Tuesday night at Southern Wayne High School do you want first: the good, the bad or the ugly?
The good: Wayne won 11-10 to improve to 2-3 in Area I East South Division play and 7-3 overall, snapping a three-game losing streak. The offense came alive after being in the doldrums for two games. Several players being counted on to spark the offense had big games.
The bad: The defense made four errors to give it 33 on the season. Wayne coughed up a five-run lead late and was one misplay from being down two runs.
The ugly: Wayne's baserunning antics should have been put under a tent with a few dancing bears and a couple of jugglers. One player was picked off first, two were picked off second by the catcher, one was out on a missed suicide squeeze play and one broke for second on a wild pitch while the front runner stayed put.
Wayne will play Apex Wednesday night at home in a non-conference game, then square off with division opponent Pitt County Post 39 Thursday in a crucial match up at SWHS.
After seeming to have the game in hand, Wayne watched Kinston explode for five runs in the eighth against reliever John Wooten to tie it and seemingly grab the momentum. But momentum is a fickle lady, and she left Post 43 shortly after she latched on to the visitors' arms.
Thomas Pilkington drove a 1-2 breaking pitch over the left field fence with one out in the home half of the inning to provide Post 11 with the margin it needed, and Wooten pitched around a leadoff error in the ninth to hand Post 11 the win.
"Thomas had a couple of plays he should have made and he knew it and he was down," said Wayne coach Brad Reaves. "I told him 'It's always going to come back to you.' If you watch enough games on TV you'll see some guy kick it and come back the next inning and hit it out. That's the thing about this game."
The offenses combined for 31 hits against six pitchers. Wayne pounded Kinston starter Billy Dudding for 13 hits in less than four innings. Post 11 starter Michael Douglass faltered in the third and gave up a three-run homer but otherwise looked solid in five-plus innings of work.
Wooten hit the first of three solo home runs for Wayne with two out in the first. An inning later, Nolan Lancaster and Bryant Hill singled to start the inning. Lancaster was picked off second by catcher Carter Capps, and a strikeout followed. But Post 11 was just getting started. Tyler Edwards drove the first pitch to the center field fence, and Walker Gourley drove him in with a hit up the middle. He later scored on Wooten's hit to center.
Kinston got three of those runs back in the third on Trey Beamon's home run with two aboard.
Lancaster homered in the home half, and Wayne took an 8-3 lead with three in the fourth. It could have been more but for the baserunning. Two runs were home with runners on first and second when Wright broke for second on a wild pitch. The front runner didn't go, and Wright was tagged out by the catcher. Pilkington doubled, and Lancaster was hit by a pitch. Bryant Hill walked on a full count to bring in a run, but a suicide failed and a popup ended the threat.
Wright had a solo home run in the sixth.
Kinston trailed 10-5 before the big rally. Capps singled off an 0-2 pitch, Tyler Potter walked and Grant Williams homered to center to trim the lead to two. Brandon Sutton's walk came around a pop up and a strikeout. Lee Taylor's liner to right was misjudged for a triple, and Kinston tied it on Andrew Manning's infield hit. Taylor Ginn doubled to left centerfield to bring the go-ahead run in scoring position. Pilkington made a nice play on a grounder to get Post 11 in the dugout.
Then came Pilkington's homer.
Potter reached on an error to start the ninth, but Wooten struck out the next two batters and got the game-ending out on a fly ball to short.
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