D’backs fall in Game 5

CLOVER HILL – The Clover Hill Bucks kept their championship hopes alive on Tuesday night against the Stuarts Draft Diamondbacks.
The Bucks put together a five-run fourth inning and held off a late Diamondbacks’ rally to pick up an 8-4 win in Game 5 of the RCBL championship series. Draft leads the series 3-2 and will have another chance to win its first title in franchise history tonight at the Diamond Club in Stuarts Draft.
“Our mindset is we need to win one more,” said Bucks manager Mike Martin. “Every night from here on it has to be win one more.[We are] not looking forward to the second game, we just have to do what it takes and try to win tomorrow night.”
Draft manager Tinker Kiser chose to rest his ace Ryan Cooper on Tuesday at Buck
Bowman Park, instead throwing several arms that have seen little action this year.
“We were a little hurt on pitching tonight and we threw some guys that didn’t have a lot of innings this year, but I thought we did a pretty good job of hanging in there,” Kiser said.
Tim Brust started things off on the mound for the Diamondbacks, allowing three hits and one run in the first three innings of play.
In the bottom of the third, play was suspended for 30 minutes because of lightning in the area. In the top of the fourth play was suspended for 10 minutes after a fan was struck by a foul ball.
Brust’s night came to an abrupt end in the fourth when the Bucks scored five runs to take a 6-1 lead.
The game had been tied 1-1 before the Bucks’ bats woke.
In the visitors’ side of the fourth Cooper scored the Diamondbacks’ first run.
In the eighth, the Diamondbacks scored two runs to cut their deficit to four when Brandon Clark and Cooper both hit solo home runs.
The Bucks extended their lead to 8-3 in the bottom of the inning, but the Diamondbacks began to rally in the ninth.
Wes Harlow reached on an error and advanced on a Zach Goodyear walk. Lance Bragg scored Harlow with a single to make the score 8-4.