Galion baseball fends off Ontario's seventh inning comeback attempt

GALION - Kenny Fagan let out a sigh of relief Wednesday night as the umpire called strike three against Ontario's Kane Cantrell to end the ball game. His Galion Tigers saw a seven run lead evaporate to just one with the bases loaded in the top of the seventh at home and were a pitch away from needing to get back on the field were it not for Kurt Hay's lone strikeout of the night in relief to secure a 7-6 win. "Winning's really hard, especially in this league," Fagan said.

"The start of the game does not indicate really anything about Ontario, we know they can hit and they can score runs and bunches ... I think they scored 14 the other day. But we held together and we've banded together pretty good as a group.

"There's not a lot of finger pointing, there's not a lot of blaming each other ... if we have a couple mistakes in the field, they start picking each other up, and we just keep moving forward. " MORE: Richland County baseball power poll has third new No.

1 in as many weeks That was never more apparent than in that seventh inning where the Tigers held a 7-2 lead needing just three outs to end it. Cantrell opened the inning with a groundout to Hay on the mound before a walk and single were followed by an error allowing Dom Cantrell and Guy Trader to score. Jaren Holden singled and Dane Kearns was plunked to get two more runners on base allowing Max Ciroli to drive in Kasen Pittman and then Jon Mahon's single brought in Holden to pull within one.