ApL Elizabethton River Riders

River Riders Slug Their Way Past Axmen in Opening Day Victory

Published on June 7, 2023 under Appalachian League (ApL)
Elizabethton River Riders News Release


ELIZABETHTON, Tenn. - Three different River Riders hit home runs on Tuesday night as Elizabethton defeated the Kingsport Axmen by a final of 9-7.

The Axmen got the scoring started in the top half of the first when Payton Allen came home on a sacrifice fly by Corbin Shaw. However, Elizabethton came back in a hurry as four different River Riders came home in the bottom half of the frame, giving them a 4-1 lead after one.

The Riders added on one run each in the second and third innings. In the second, a double from Ryan Weingartner scored Hayden Moore. The run in the third came on a Kingsport wild pitch that allowed Kerry Herndon-Brown to score. A third of the way through, it was 6-1, E-Town.

Elizabethton's first home run of the night came in the fifth, when Knox Preston hit a solo shot to extend the lead in the 7-1, the largest of the game for the River Riders. The Axmen then began to cut into the lead in the sixth, when an RBI single from Andrew Citron and a sacrifice fly by Ryan McCarthy made it a 7-3 contest.

The comeback continued for Kingsport in the seventh, when a wild pitch and another sac fly made it 7-5. The River Riders then got two insurance runs, as a seventh-inning solo homer by Herndon-Brown and an eighth-inning blast by Moore extended the lead to 9-5.

Those two runs proved to be the difference as a two-run home run by Deniel Ortiz in the ninth cut the deficit to 9-7, where the game would stay.

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