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Williams' hit gives Viking diamond boys sweep of Adams

Huntington North hitter Levi Bennett makes contact with a pitch in the first game of a doubleheader on Saturday, April 21, against South Bend John Adams. The Vikings won both games.
Huntington North hitter Levi Bennett makes contact with a pitch in the first game of a doubleheader on Saturday, April 21, against South Bend John Adams. The Vikings won both games. Photo by Steve Clark.

Trey Williams’ run-scoring single in the eighth inning of the second game gave the Huntington North High School baseball team a 5-4 win and doubleheader sweep of visiting South Bend John Adams on Saturday, April 21.

The Vikings, 9-1, won the opener 6-3.

Jarret Gray got the winning rally started in the second game with a single up the middle, then stole second. After Levi Bennett was walked, Zach Daugherty reached base on an Adams’ error, and with the bags full of Vikings, Williams singled through the hole at short to win the game.

Adams had tied the game with a three-run sixth inning, negating a 4-1 cushion HNHS had earned with a four-run third inning.

Gray and Williams each had two of the Vikings’ six hits for the contest, with Gray accounting for two ribbies.

Elliott Lesperance got the mound win in relief, hurling the final 2.2 frames and giving up no runs on two hits. Williams went the first 5.1 innings, yielding three earned runs on seven hits, with two strikeouts and one walk.

Gage Sandlin started and went the first five innings for HNHS to get the win in the opener. He yielded two earned run on six hits, with one strikeout and four walks before Daugherty came in for the save.

The Vikings scored a solo run in the second, put two more on the board in the third, got another singleton in the fourth and pushed across two insurance runs in the fifth inning.

Gray and Daugherty each had two RBI to lead a five-hit Viking offense.