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| Zack Russell-Myers dives back to first on a pickoff attempt. No. 8 Mocksville lost to No. 1 Rowan. - Photo by James Barringer |
Desperate for a win, Mocksville’s Legion baseball team got just what it needed from torrid Jess Cartner in Game Two at Rowan County on the night of Fourth of July. Cartner’s fifth-inning home run lifted Mocksville into the 5-1 lead.
But Mocksville sucked the wind out of its own balloon and lost 7-6. An error got Rowan back in the game, another error gave Rowan the lead and Rowan took a 2-0 series lead.
While Rowan notched win No. 8 in a row, Mocksville sank to 9-15 with loss No. 7 in a row.
“This was really a heartbreaker, not being able to push a couple more runs across and then losing a 5-1 lead,” Mocksville coach Mike Lovelace said.
Mocksville starter D.J. Webb surrendered a home run on the game’s first pitch, but he was dynamite the rest of the first, the second, third and the fourth.
The score was 1-1 going into the top of the fifth. With two on and two outs, Cartner rode one over the right-field wall, his first homer of the season giving Mocksville the 5-1 cushion.
The game, though, turned sour for Mocksville. An error was followed by a double in the Rowan fifth, and ... subscribe to the Davie County Enterprise Record, P.O. Box 4639, Salisbury, N.C. 28145.