Black Diamonds use 3 HRs to help rout Poteau

The Sallisaw Black Diamonds baseball team used a three-home run barrage to help lead the way to an 11-1, fiveinning rout of the Poteau Pirates on Tuesday evening.

The Black Diamonds (14-2 overall, 5-0 in District 4A-8 play), who led 1-0 after two innings thanks to Brodie Cameron’s RBI single, used a six-run third inning to take control of the game.

An RBI fielder’s choice by Broque Oft, a two-run single by Dagan Grizzle and Cameron’s three-run homer, which is his third homer of the season, upped Sallisaw’s lead to 7-0 after three innings.

The Pirates (6-8, 1-7) got their lone run on a Sallisaw error that allowed Garrett Finchum to score from third base in the fourth inning to cut the Sallisaw lead to 7-1.

Sallisaw scored twice in the fourth inning on a two-RBI single by Connor Green to make it 9-1.

The Black Diamonds ended things about as dramatically as possible as Rylan Eagle and Grizzle hit back-to-back, game-ending solo home runs in the fifth inning to put the game into runrule status. It was Eagle’s first homer of the season, while it was Grizzle’s third round-tripper.

For the game, Eagle was 2-for-2 with a solo homer and three runs scored, Cameron was 2-for-2 with a three-run homer, Johnny Velasquez was 2-for-2 with two runs scored and Grizzle was 2-for-3 with a solo homer, three RBIs and two runs scored for Sallisaw.

Wolfe (2-0) got the win, going the first four innings with seven strikeouts. Eagle pitched a scoreless fifth inning, getting two strikeouts.