Things are a bit jammed up now at the top of the 8th District baseball standings. For that, you can blame the Hopkinsville Tigers. Hoptown scored five times in the bottom of the sixth inning to rally from a one-run deficit and take a 6-2 win over the Christian County Colonels.
With Friday night’s result, Hopkinsville, Christian County, and University Heights, all have one loss in district play. Hopkinsville has a loss to University Heights and University Heights has a loss to Christian County.
The Colonels got on the board first Friday night in the top of the third. Christian County loaded the bases with two singles and a Hopkinsville error to start the inning. After a popup, Eddie Davis singled to left to drive in Coalton Ingram and Sebastian Dazey, putting the Colonels up 2-0.
Hopkinsville got one of the runs back in the bottom half of the inning. With the bases loaded, Jayden Kellum singled to drive in a run and cut the lead to 2-1.
From there the staring pitchers had things locked down until the bottom half of the sixth.
The Tigers used two singles and a hit batter to load the bases with one out. Dylan Sweeney drew a bases-loaded walk to tie the game up at 2-2. Chase Fort put Hopkinsville in front 4-2 when he scorched a single to center.
The Tigers added a couple of insurance runs on a sac bunt from Gavin Powell and a Christian County error.
Powell, who went to the mound in relief in the top of the sixth, set the Colonels down in short order in the seventh to close out the win.
Chase Fort, Gavin Powell, and Jayden Kellum had two hits each for Hopkinsville. The Tigers had 8 hits for the game to Christian County’s seven.
Aiden Lewis led Christian County at the plate, going 2-3. Eddie Davis was 1-4 with two RBIs.
Lewis was tagged with the loss for Christian County after going 5 ⅓ innings, giving up five runs on seven hits, striking out three and walking four.
Andrew Mayes started on the hill for Hopkinsville. He went 5 ⅔ innings, giving up two runs on seven hits, striking out three and walking one.
