Top seed moves on: NHC clips Woodcarver to advance

Jalen Boyd slaps a single up the middle for NHC during his team’s game against Woodcarver in the Boys Training League tournament Thursday night. Boyd and his NHC teammates advanced to the winners’ bracket finals, defeating Woodcarver 16-12.

In the boys training league Thursday night, No. 1 seed NHC slipped past Woodcarver 16-12 as time expired to advance to Tuesday night’s winners’ bracket finals.

NHC scored three runs in the top of the first, and Woodcarver answered with three of their own to tie the game 3-3. Woodcarver took a 5-3 lead going into the top of the third, then NHC sent seven runners across the plate in their half of the inning as Woodcarver managed only one run in the bottom, and finished the third trailing 10-6.

Both teams scored one run in the fourth and five runs in the fifth as time expired.

For NHC, Conner Dixon collected three hits, Jared Mullins, Kaleb Rymer and Tyler Anselmo added two hits each. For Woodcarver, Dakota Ware, Spencer Pryor, Grayson Woods and Dustin Bond had two hits each.

Satellite World advanced to the finals of the winners bracket with a 15-12 win over Sonic in the second game of the night.

Satellite World scored five runs in the top of the first, and held Sonic to three runs. Going into the top of the third Satellite World held a one-run lead, 7-6, but in the top of the third Satellite World scored six runs which gave them enough to take the victory.

For Satellite World, Derek Brumley, Marques Jones and Jordan Harper collected three hits each, and Christopher Gross had two hits. Jacob Reagan, Cory Cantrell, Aaron Taylor, Hunter Chilton, Lee Roberts and Dillion Tubb had one hit each.

For Sonic, Tylan Martin had three hits. Juan Gonzales, Zack York and Jacob Newby collected two hits each. Drew Tanner, Austin Green, Jacq Elam, Tyler Worthington and Christian Martin added one hit each.

In the final game of the night Moore Properties squeezed by the Dodgers, winning 12-11 in six innings.

The Dodgers took a 7-3 lead going into the bottom of the fourth, but Moore’s scored five runs in the bottom of the fourth to take the lead 8-7.

Moore’s stopped the Dodgers in the top of the fifth and added two more runs in their half of the inning for a 10-7 lead. The Dodgers bounced back in the top of the sixth scoring four runs to take back the lead 11-10, but Moore’s answered back in the bottom of the sixth with two runs.

Micha McColloch doubled to tie the game, then scored when Justin Ware drove the game-winning hit up the middle.

For Moore Properties, Hunter Adams had three hits. Mitchell Steiner and Ware had two hits each, and McColloch added one hit. For the Dodgers, Dylan Barnes had three hits. Chase Stewart, Cole Rust and Wesley Cleland added two hits each.

On Monday Union Planters will take on Quality Mold at 5:30 p.m., Woodcarver takes on Moore Properties at 6:45 and Sonic will meet the winner of Union Planters and Quality Mold at 8 p.m.

NHC will meet Satellite World on Thursday at 5:30 p.m. in the finals of the winners’ bracket.