Durham Snaps Wayne's Win Streak

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This time the offense couldn't save the pitching.

It didn't matter who Wayne County coach Brad Reaves put on the mound Thursday night at Southern Wayne High School. The visitors scored against all of them.

Durham Post 7 (12-8) racked up 19 hits against four pitchers and halted Wayne's winning streak at seven games with a 12-3 victory. Wayne (13-4) will play host to Clayton Saturday night before heading to Kinston for a crucial Area I East South Division showdown Sunday night.

All the players in the starting lineup for Durham had hits as Post 7 scored in all but one inning. By contrast, the Wayne offense, coming off a 17-7 pounding of Garner in which it had 17 safeties, was limited to seven.

For the second straight night, the Wayne staring pitcher didn't get to the fifth inning. Michael Douglas allowed seven hits and walked two in 2 2/3 innings. Durham's Ari Seelinger didn't far much better in going four innings and giving up six hits, four walks and four runs.

The Post 11 defense didn't help matters by committing five errors leading to four unearned runs.

Durham's big inning came in the third with a 2-1 lead. Geoff Turner had an RBI double and Robert Long drove in two on a bases-loaded single in the five-run inning.

Post 7 would score in all but one inning the rest of the way. Long had a solo shot in the fifth, and Turner homered to center inthe eighth.

Wayne loaded the bases in the second. Thomas Pilkington started the inning with the first of his two his, and Cambric Moye singled to right. Bryant Hill drew a one-out walk, and Alex Casey drove in a run with a force out on his grounder.

Post 11 added two in the fourth. Casey walked with one out and went to third on a double down the third base line by Tyler Edwards. Walker Gourley, who had two hits, slapped an opposite-field double to right to make it 8-3.

But the Wayne offense spent the rest of the game being frustrated in its failure to take advantage of opportunities as it stranded 12.