Baseball: Miller's home run provides walk-off win for Pirates

Visiting South Dearborn scored a run in the top of the first inning at Greensburg Thursday. It was all Greensburg from that point. The Pirates scored five runs in both the third and sixth inning to sail to the 14-3 victory.

Greensburg’s Zayden Miller stepped to the plate in the bottom of the sixth inning and blasted a home run to left field to score Ethan Bishop and Luke Hoeing and seal the walk-off victory for the Pirates.

The Pirates tied the game at 1-1 in the first inning with a Logan Meyer ground out that scored Ayden Sefton. Greensburg added three runs in the second inning. Miller singled in Patrick Robbins. Sefton singled to score Hoeing and a base-loaded hit by pitch on Chase Walsman forced in Sefton to give the Pirates a 4-1 lead.

In the third inning, Hoeing flew out to left field to score Robbins. A Sefton triple drove in Bishop and Miller. Ethan Smith reached on an error to score Sefton and Walsman doubled to drive in Smith.

In the sixth inning, Colt McCalvin scored on an error. Hoeing singled to score Robbins and set the table for Miller’s game-ending blast.

Miller had a team-high four RBIs to go with a home run and two singles. Sefton finished with a triple, single and three RBIs. Walsman had two doubles and two RBIs. Robbins added a pair of singles. Hoeing had a single, double and two RBIs. Bishop had a double.

Jacob Duerstock got the win on the mound for Greensburg. Duerstock pitched 6.0 innings, allowing two earned runs on five hits and one walk while striking out six.

South Decatur 10, Brown County 0

South Decatur’s Corey Nugent held visiting Brown County to just one hits in the Cougars’ 10-0 victory Thursday.

Nugent pitched 5.0 innings for South, allowing one hit and two walks while striking out 10.

South scored two runs in the bottom of the first inning. A Cayden Drake sacrifice fly scored Nugent for the game’s first run. A double by Drake Scaggs scored Garrett Huckleberry to make it 2-0.

In the bottom of the second inning, Nugent singled to score Aidan Bryant. Carter Tull’s ground out drove in Karson Templeton. Grady Scudder’s infield hit plated Nugent to make it 5-0.

South added five runs in the bottom of the fourth inning. Tull singled to score Templeton. Drake doubled to right field to score Scudder, Nugent and Tull. Drake scored on a steal of home plate to push the lead to 10-0.

Drake (2) and Scaggs had extra base hits for the Cougars. Templeton added two singles. Drake had a team-high four RBIs. Tull drove in two runs.

North Decatur 24, Edinburgh 2

In two games against Edinburgh, North Decatur outscored the Lancers 47-4 to post a pair of MHC wins. The Chargers knocked off the Lancers 23-2 at home Wednesday and 24-2 at Edinburgh Thursday.

Wednesday, Corbin Thackery and Tyler Dean both homered for the Chargers. Wyatt Reisman added a triple. Eli Trenkamp had three singles and Matthew Fields finished with two singles. Henry Kinker, Grayson Downey, Gage Gabbard, Kipton Ruf and Brayden Murray all had a single. Thackery and Murray both had three RBIs. Ruf, Reisman and Downey all had two RBIs.