WALK-OFF WINNER: Trombley Hit Rallies Braves

Click the thumbnails to see photos and a video of the game-winning hit taken by Brad Landis. Also see/hear interviews with Tyler Darmogray, Owen Trombley, and Gladstone Manager Lucas Lacosse.

GLADSTONE---The Gladstone Braves scored four runs in the bottom of the seventh inning to stun the Iron Mountaineers, 6-5, in high school baseball action on Thursday.

Owen Trombley had the game-winning hit, capping a wild seventh inning that saw Iron Mountain break a 2-2 tie in the top of the inning with three runs to grab a 5-2 lead.

It was a crazy finish to a game that was a pitcher's duel for the first six innings between Iron Mountain's Blake Julian and Gladstone's Tyler Darmogray. Julian walked five batters and hit two batters, allowing the Braves two runs in the first inning.

But he settled down and did not allow a base hit in six innings of work, before he had to leave after he reached his pitch count limit.

Darmogray allowed only one hit, to Bryce Pietrantonio, but that hit did not lead to a run. The Mountaineers scored two runs in the third inning thanks to three Gladstone errors. Julian's sacrafic fly was the only RBI in the first six innings. In all, the Braves had seven errors.

Still, the game was tied 2-2, heading into the final inning.

Eli Lofholm was safe on an error to start the inning, then Caleb Evosovich drew a walk. Darmogray got Julian to line out to third base, and Pietrantonio flew out. But Ian Anderson smoked a two-run double to the fence and Jurgen Kleiman ripped an RBI double.

That made it 5-2 goimg to the bottom of the seventh, and Anderson came on to pitch.

Darmogray was hit by a pitch to start the inning, but Anderson got Carter Vanbrocklin on a strikeout off a 3-2 pitch. Braeden Sundquist drew a walk, and then Blake Krouth came threough with an RBI single to right field for the Braves' first base hit of the afternoon.

That made it 5-3, and Cam Kelly struck out moments later. The ball got away from the catcher, however, and Kelly was safe at first, and it was a 5-4 game. Trevor Hanson came up with runners on second and third, and Gladstone manager Lucas Lacosse, who called multiple bunts and squeezes throughout the game, tried to tie the game with a bunt.

Hanson had two strikes on him and got it down up the third base line, and it rolled foul for a strikeout. That brought up Trombley, and he smacked Anderson's first pitch into right field, past a diving IM second baseman Evosovich. Both runs scored and the Braves celebrated.

Darmogray got the complete game win on the hill for the Braves, allowing three hits ad five runs (none of them earned). He walked three and fanned three batters.

Julian got a no-decision, going six innings, allowing no hits, two runs (both unearned). He struck out eight, walked five, and hit two batters. Anderson took the loss, allowing four runs on two hits in two-thirds of an inning. He struck out two, and walked one.

It was a bitter loss for Iron Mountain, which fell to 12-4 on the season.

Gladstone is now 10-6 and will play a doubleheader Saturday in Escanaba.