In a Thursday night matchup between two teams with 2nd Region title aspirations, the Lyon County Lyons erased an early 4-run deficit on the way to a 10-5 victory over the host Hopkinsville Tigers.
The loss is the second in two nights for the Tigers after starting the season with 8-straight wins. The Lyons earn their second-straight win over ranked teams to improve to 7-3 overall.
Hoptown jumped on Lyon County starter Austin Long in the bottom of the 1st, using RBI singles by Logan Durst and Landon Snyder to take a 4-0 lead.
Lyon County’s Eli Baker singled in a run and later came home on a passed ball to cut the Tigers’ lead in half in the top of the 2nd. Long hit the first batter he saw in the bottom of the frame, and Ryan Myers followed with a single for the Tigers to signal the end of Long’s night on the mound. Travis Yancy came on in relief, with one run scoring on a double play before a strikeout ended the inning.
Brody Williams led off the 3rd with a home run, his second in two games and third this season, to pull the Lyons back within 2 runs. The lead was down to one after a Gunnar Bingham RBI single in the 4th, with the tying run thrown out at the plate to end the inning.
Hoptown starter Jacob Dilday lasted 5 innings, allowing 4 runs, 3 earned, on 5 hits with 3 walks and 7 strikeouts, before giving way to Zach Moss. Moss only recorded one out before giving way to Preston Chaudoin with the bases loaded. Three walks and a hit by pitch brought in 4 runs, with Aidan Rush singling in a run to give the Lyons a 10-5 advantage.
Yancy was cruising, yielding no runs on 2 hits with 8 strikeouts heading to the bottom of the 7th. Myers led off the Tigers’ final at-bat with a single for his fourth hit of the night, but Chaudoin grounded into a double play. Yancy issued his only walk of the night to the next batter but delivered a strikeout for the final out of the game.
Bingham and Williams each drove in a pair of runs for the Lyons, with Rush and Darnall collecting 2 hits each.
The Tigers outhit the Lyons 8-7 with Myers accounting for half of the Tigers’ output.