A strong start on Thursday night at O’Donnell turned out being just enough for the Eagles to hold off the Morton Indians, 9-7, in a District 4-2A nail-biter.
After scoring the game’s first nine runs, the Eagles seemed to have things under control. Scoring one run each in both the second and third innings, the Eagles erupted for five big runs in the fourth and two more in the fifth.
But Morton made things interesting in the late stages, scoring three runs in the sixth and four in the seventh innings. But it wasn’t quite enough against the Eagles.
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