Article: CLASS AAA, REGION 4, SECTION 1 baseball: ; Pickering helps Nitro hold off Red Dragons

Andrew Pickering's sacrifice fly in the bottom of the eighth inning gave Nitro a 5-4 win in the Class AAA Region 4, Section 1 baseball championship game on Thursday night.

Pickering hit a fly ball to centerfield that scored fellow junior J.R. Bradley, capping Nitro's game-long comeback from a 4-0 deficit. The win puts the defending Class AAA state champions into the Region 4 semifinals on May 25, against the winner of Region 4, Section 2 between Parkersburg South and Ripley.

Nitro scored one run in each at-bat beginning in the fourth inning. The Red Dragons had jumped out to a four-run lead in the second.

"That goes against a couple rules of baseball," Nitro Coach Steve Pritchard said. ...

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