Halifax County’s Colton Milam drove in three runs and the Lions scored eight runs in the bottom of the second inning in their 14-3 rout of Laurel Park in five innings of Piedmont District action Wednesday night.Â
Halifax (2-0) entered the bottom of the second facing a 3-0 deficit. The Lions plated their first runs courtesy of an error on Camdyn Chappell’s fly ball to center field that allowed William Payne and Cale Bowen to score and pull them within one. Two batters later, Dawson Compton laced a single to short that plated Chappell and tied the game at 3-3. A wild pitch brought Compton home to give Halifax the lead and Colin Hatcher plated an insurance run with his run-scoring base knock. Milam kept things rolling with his RBI single that pushed the Lions’ lead to 6-3 and an error and wild pitch scored Milam and Payne and capped the rally.Â
Halifax’s bats stayed hot in the third as the Lions took a 9-3 lead on Milam’s line-drive single to left.Â
The Lions sent the game to a slaughter role with five runs in the fourth. Hatcher made it a 10-3 contest with his RBI double to left and Caiden Brooks drove in a pair of runs to push Halifax’s cushion to nine. Milam gave the Lions a 10-run advantage with his run-scoring base knock to center and Bowen concluded the scoring with his RBI single to center.Â
Milam paced Halifax with three RBIs while Brooks and Hatcher drove in a pair of runs apiece. Compton and Bowen recorded an RBI apiece as well. Milam led with three hits while Hatcher added two.Â
Layne Satterfield got the win on the mound, scattering three runs on two hits and striking out five in three innings pitched. Compton threw two innings of one-hit relief while walking one and striking out three.Â
Halifax returns to action Saturday when it opens play in the Will Hill Invitational at the high school at 9 a.m.Â
Davin Wilson is the sports editor for The Gazette-Virginian. Contact him at dwilson@gazettevirginian.com.
