Northern Tier Sports ReportWYSOX — Towanda baseball broke a 3-game losing streak as they pulled away from Williamson, 10-4, during NTL baseball action Thursday.
The Warriors led 2-1 after one and it stayed like that until the bottom of the fourth when Towanda knotted it up as they pushed a run across.
The teams traded runs in the fifth, then the Knights used a 7-run sixth to take control of the game. Williamson got their last run in the top of the seventh.
Avery Butts (2-for-4) had 3-RBI with a run scored while Gage Evans (1-for-3) had a triple with an RBI.
Boom Thompson (1-for-4) had a double with 3-RBI, and two runs, as Harper Welles (2-for-3) drove in a run.
Hudson Stevens (1-for-2) scored, and had an RBI with Brad Assante (1-for-3) also driving in a run.
Shane Maghamez (1-for-4), Lucas Vincent (1-for-3), and Hagen Jones (1-for-3) all scored.
Vincent started, and went 1 1/3-innings with two strikeouts, two walks, two hits, and two unearned runs.
Assante tossed the next 5 1/3-innings to get the win, striking out 10 with four walks, two hits, and two runs, one of which was earned.
Jones pitched the final third with a strikeout.
Thompson led off the bottom of the first by reaching on an error, followed by Welles drawing a walk. After an out Assante brought in Thompson with a sacrifice fly for a 2-1 score.
Jones led off the fourth with a single, then scored two batters later on a Thompson fly out to make it 2-2.
Assante led off the fifth with a walk, followed by Evans drawing a 1-out walk two batters later. That set up Gabe Wolf, Assante’s courtesy runner, scoring off a Butts hit to make it 3-3.
Thompson started the big sixth inning by getting hit by a pitch. He later scored on a Welles sacrifice bunt to put the Knights up 4-3.
Maghamez and Assante had back to back hits, followed by Vincent getting beaned to load the bases.
An error off the bat of Evans brought in Maghamez, then Butts hit a 2-run single for a 7-3 contest.
After a second out was made Stevens singled in courtesy runner Brayden Spencer for an 8-3 ball game.
Thompson then doubled in Butts and Stevens to make it 10-3.
Towanda (6-8) travels to Athens on Saturday with a 10 a.m. start.
