Parkers Chapel hosts Woodlawn in baseball action.

PARKERS CHAPEL - When Parkers Chapel and Woodlawn meet on the baseball diamond, there always seems to be plenty of drama.

That was no different on Monday, as Tyler Martin’s walk-off double lifted the Trojans past the Bears 7-6 in 10 innings on Monday afternoon at Robert McKinnon Park.

The Trojans’ effort on Monday was one of great perseverance.

Trailing by a run in the bottom of the ninth, the Trojans (7-4) tied the game on Trace Shoup’s two-out bloop RBI single to left.

After Grayson Hurst worked a 1-2-3 top of the 10th, the Trojans won the game in the bottom half of the frame.

Jordan Arrington, who had been hitless on the day, laced Sam West’s first pitch down the left-field line for a leadoff double.

One out later, Martin ripped West’s 2-1 offering to nearly the same spot where Arrington’s double had gone for the game-winner.

“It was a great high school game,” Parkers Chapel coach Mark Looney said. “You tip your hat to them, but tip your hat to my guys. They showed a lot of fortitude today. They kept believing and playing and pulling for each other. I’m very proud of them.”

Martin’s hit made a winner of Hurst, who turned in a splendid performance out of the bullpen.

Taking over for Michael Brotherton in the seventh, Hurst allowed two hits and one run in four innings of work. He walked one and struck out three.

“What a tremendous job,” Looney said of Hurst. “It’s a big game. He comes in with a runner on first, nobody out and a 1-0 count. He took us all the way through the 10th. The one run that they got, we bounced back and tied it up.”

Parkers Chapel erased a 4-1 deficit with four runs in the bottom of the fifth, but they were at their best in extra innings.

After West gave the Bears (5-5) a 6-5 lead with a sacrifice fly in the top of the ninth, the Trojans mounted a two-out rally.

Carson Worthey kept the Trojans alive with a base hit to right. The senior then stole second and went to third on a throwing error.

That set the stage for Shoup, whose flare landed beyond the reach of two Woodlawn defenders in shallow left-center to tie the game.

But if it weren’t for Parkers Chapel’s defense, the heroics of Hurst, Shoup, Arrington and Martin would not have materialized.

In the seventh, West hit a line drive just over a leaping attempt by Martin in left field.

Will Richardson, who led off the inning with a walk, tried to score on the play, but the relay from Martin to T.J. Bale to Arrington was on the money, and Richardson was gunned down in a bang-bang play at the plate to keep the game tied.

Before all of the drama in the late stages of the game, the Trojans began their comeback in the bottom of the fifth, using small ball and some miscues by Woodlawn’s defense to take their first lead of the day.

With one out, Reid Cates reached on a throwing error after hitting a grounder to third.

The freshman went to third on a passed ball and a wild pitch, and Thomas Hardy walked to put runners at the corners.

Bale then followed with a dribbler to the mound that was misplayed for an error, allowing Cates to score to make it 4-2.

Brotherton then laid down a bunt that led to a throwing error, allowing Hardy to score to pull the Trojans within a run.

With runners again the corners and Worthey at the plate, an errant pickoff throw brought home Bale with the tying run and sent Brotherton to second.

Moments later, Worthey gave the Trojans their first lead of the day by ripping a double to left that scored Brotherton with the go-ahead run.

“We got down early, and it didn’t faze us a bit,” Looney said. “It’s not the first time we’ve been down this year. We just kept our composure. We forced the issue and put it in play.”

But the lead would be a short-lived one, as the Bears answered in the sixth with Trey Scallion getting hit by a pitch with the bases loaded.

With the bases still loaded, Woodlawn seemed primed for a big inning, but a miscue brought the rally to a halt.

Reece Michels took a pitch that he believed to be ball four, but it was only ball three.

With all of the Woodlawn runners in motion, Arrington tagged out Jacob Wright for the second out, putting a damper on the Bears’ momentum.

Now with runners at second and third and two outs, Brotherton retired Michels on a fly out to center field to preserve the tie.

The Bears built their early 4-1 edge with two runs apiece in the second and fourth innings, scoring all of their runs with two outs.

Wright had an RBI single and Scallion, who drove in four runs, drew a bases-loaded walk in the second before rifling a two-run single in the fourth to account for Woodlawn’s early offense.

The Trojans cut the Bears’ lead in half in the third on an RBI double by Bale that scored Cates, who started the inning with a single and went to second on Hardy’s sacrifice bunt.

Wright went 2-for-4 with an RBI for the Bears, who got at least one hit from all nine of their starters.

West pitched well in a losing cause, allowing five hits and two runs over 4 1/3 innings. He walked two and struck out seven.

Richardson, the Bears’ starter, allowed five runs and three hits in five innings. He walked two, hit a batter and struck out six.

Worthey went 2-for-4 with an RBI for the Trojans, who had eight hits in the win. On the mound, Worthey allowed four runs and three hits in four innings of work. He walked four, hit two batters and struck out five.

The Trojans will now head to Magnolia to compete in their annual tournament starting on Thursday, and Looney is hoping his team can build off of Monday’s win.

“We’re such a young bunch, and we’re going to continue to get better,” Looney said. “We got better today.”