Minford stuns Wheelersburg with four-run seventh in come-from-behind win
WHEELERSBURG — Teams who are ranked in statewide polls don't get their billing by accident — because their respect comes from finding ways to win in moments where a game appears to be lost. If there was ever an example of finding a way to win a game that appeared to be lost, the Minford Falcons' baseball program certainly found a way to do just that on Wednesday evening. Trailing 3-0 to a Wheelersburg Pirates' baseball squad that had grinded out eight hits and had put a total of 16 batters on base during the contest while holding Minford to just one hit through six innings of play, the Falcons' chances weren't exactly promising heading into the seventh inning.
However, one couldn't tell with the way Minford responded in the top of the frame. And it ultimately resulted in arguably the best comeback by any team in any game this season inside the Scioto County lines. In an incredible rally, six of Minford's first eight batters reached base in the bottom of the seventh inning for the Falcons, leading to a crazy sequence that decided the game as Ty Borland's infield single not only scored the tying run in Colt Donahoe, but the winning run as well as Curtis Glenn sprinted home from second base and beat a return throw back to home plate, giving Minford a 4-3 lead and the victory in a remarkable last inning turn of events in a SOC III contest that was held in Wheelersburg on Wednesday evening.
For the normally unsurprised and even-keeled Eli Daniels, the late rally even had the Minford head coach's emotions on a level that was above 10. "Grit's an understatement," Daniels said. "I don't know what that was, but that was something to see right there.
That was special. I'm on Cloud Nine right now. I can't say enough about that one.
That was fun right there. " As excited as Daniels was on his side, Wheelersburg head coach Derek Moore was understandably dejected. The Pirates put a runner on base in each of the seven innings contested on Wednesday and put at least two runners on in five out of the seven frames of action, but costly baserunning miscues, which ran Wheelersburg out of runs on three separate occasions, proved to be huge.
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