MCHENRY — Grantsville Post 214 couldn’t get the bats going in the first game, and lost a 5-0 lead in the second to drop both games of a American Legion doubleheader with Elkins Saturday at Garrett College.
Chris Knight and Casey Phillips teamed to allow just three Grantsville singles during a 13-0 Elkins win in the first game. Elkins then scored four times in the third inning of the late game to pull within one run before taking over in the fifth inning for a 9-5 win.
Knight recorded six strikeouts and allowed two hits in six innings for the win in the opener.
Heath Broughton doubled, singled and knockd in two runs, Brett Shreve hit an RBI double, Spencer Webley doubled and singled and Ryan Ware doubled.
Nathan King had eight strikeouts in six innings but was tagged with the loss.
Grantsville scored four runs in the first inning of the second game and went ahead 5-0 with a run in the second. Elkins (2-0) then scored four runs in the third and one in the fourth to tie it, and took the lead with three runs in the fifth.
Knight, Adam Fansler and Justin Kelly had two singles in the win. Broughton and Dylan Lewis added RBI singles.
King hit a bases-loaded triple in the first inning, and also singled for Grantsville. Trey Beasom hit an RBI single and added a second base hit, Reese Duncan had an RBI single and Tyler Stevens hit two singles.
Beasom fanned seven in five innings but got the loss.
Grantsville (0-3) plays Potomac Valley in Moorefield on Tuesday in a 5 p.m. doubleheader.
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