MT. ORAB — Clinton-Massie scored three runs in the top of the eighth inning and defeated Western Brown 11-8 in non-league baseball action at Gary Waits Stadium.

The win lifts the Falcons to 12-2 on the year.

AJ Perkins pitched five innings in relief and picked up his second win of the season.

“AJ Perkins … I can’t say enough about him,” CM coach Brian Camp said. “AJ pitched great for us, the couple of outings he has had.”

Massie led 8-4 early in the game but the Broncos tied things at 8-8 in the fifth inning.

In the top of the seventh, though, with one out and the bases loaded, the Falcons took the lead when Luke Richardson stole home on a missed squeeze attempt. On the next pitch, David Poynter executed the squeeze with Max Murray scoring and it was 10-8. Jacob Wolf then made it two squeeze plays in a row when his bunt allowed Ashdain Martin to score.

The top of the Falcons lineup was strong with Richardson Murray, Noah Greathouse and Poynter combining to go 10-for-14 with six runs scored and seven runs batted in.

SUMMARY

April 18, 2017

@Western Brown

Clinton-Massie 11 Western Brown 8

CM 143.000.3…..11

WB 312.020.0…..8

Richardson 5-3-4-1 Murray 5-3-3-1 Greathouse 2-0-2-2 Poynter 2-0-1-3 Wolf 2-0-0-3 Trampler 3-0-0-0 France 4-2-2-0 Thomas 4-1-0-0 Leforge 3-1-0-0 Martin 1-1-0-1 Perkins 1-0-0-0 Collett 0-0-0-0

2B: Greathouse

PITCHING

Poynter 2 IP

Perkins (W) 5 IP