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Led by two home runs from Clay Irvine that brought in five runs, along with strong pitching from Sean Martino and Brady Edwards, the Rockbridge County High School baseball team earned a 6-5 comeback win at home over Staunton on Thursday evening in Lexington.
With the nondistrict victory, their second win in a row, the Wildcats (4-10) avenged a 12-8 road loss to Staunton (3-11) on March 15.
Irvine’s second home run came when the Wildcats were down 5-3 in the bottom of the sixth, and he hit the ball over the left field fence to drive in Bradi Ziegler and Trevor Hoke.
Earlier in the game, Irvine had given RC a 1-0 lead in the first by belting a home run to left field, but the Storm scored the next four runs.
Staunton racked up 11 hits, while RC had seven. Nicholas Bishop led the Storm with three hits, while three Staunton batters each had two hits.
Irvine paced the Wildcats with three hits. Adding one hit each were Hoke, Ziegler, Thomas Armstrong and Brady Majors.
Martino pitched the first three innings for RC, striking out one and allowing eight hits, one walk and four earned runs. Edwards pitched the final four innings, striking out six while surrendering three hits, one walk and one earned run.
For Staunton, John Henderson pitched the first 3.2 innings, striking out six and allowing three hits, two walks and three earned runs. In the final 2.1 innings, Dale Leslie struck out two and permitted four hits, one walk and three earned runs.
RC committed one error, while Staunton had none.
The Wildcats will return to Valley District action when they play at Spotswood on Friday at 5:30 p.m.
For the full story on this week’s action, with photos from Thursday’s game, please see our May 8 newspaper.
