2A Baseball Championship Game 2 Recap – South Granville slugs their way to 9-3 win to even series with East Rutherford

BURLINGTON, N.C. – Needing a win to force a game three on Sunday afternoon, South Granville jumped to the lead early with three runs in the top of the third and then rode sophomore Holden Laws to a 9-3 win to even the 2A Championship Series with East Rutherford.

Laws was spectacular on a steamy Sunday afternoon, spinning a complete game and only allowing three runs on seven hits. He struck out nine on the afternoon. Perhaps his best moment came early in the game as upon the resumption of play following an overnight suspension of play due to inclement weather, Laws worked his way out of a bases loaded one-out jam in the bottom of the first allowing only a single run on an RBI groundout keeping his team in front 3-1.

South Granville slept on a 3-0 lead after the Vikings pounded out four singles scoring three runs in the top of the first with the help of a Cavalier error and one walk. The Vikings tacked on three more in the second as Justin Bullock doubled with one out before Austin Bailey singled to put runners on the corners. Justin Brown delivered both runs to the plate on a two-RBI double to the gap, and he came around to score on Spencer Shifflett’s RBI single making it 6-1.

The Cavaliers trimmed the lead in the bottom of the second as Adam Barnette ripped a one-out single and stole second before Nick Strickland’s RBI double. Strickland came around to score on Holden Greene’s one-out RBI single slicing the Viking advantage to 6-3.

The Vikings added a pair in the fourth on a two-run homer by Laws. They picked up another run on a solo shot by Bullock in the top of the seventh to claim a 9-3 victory.