Pilot Grove’s Little League baseball team had a great start in the Tri-County Tournament last night by beating Blackwater by a score of 9-3.
Pilot Grove, improving to 8-1 on the season, opened the game with two runs in the bottom-half of the first only to have Blackwater rally back with one in the second and one in the third to tie the game at 2-all. Meanwhile, after Pilot Grove plated another run in the bottom-half of the third to go up 3-2, Blackwater stormed back again with one in the fourth to knot the game at 3-all. But even that was short-lived as Pilot Grove came back and tacked on one run in the bottom-half of the fourth to go ahead at 4-3. Then, after holding Blackwater scoreless in its half of the fifth, Pilot Grove broke the game wide-open with five runs in the bottom-half of the inning for the victory.
Layne Hoff was the winning pitcher in the game for Pilot Grove while Eli Brown took the loss for Blackwater.
Read Thursday's Boonville Daily News for the rest of the story.
