Michael Carpenter hit a walk-off single in the bottom of the eighth inning to lift New Kent’s baseball team past Lafayette 6-5 on Wednesday.
The Rams (8-2 BRD), who entered Wednesday riding a six-game winning streak, broke a 3-3 tie in the top of the sixth with two runs to make it a 5-3 game. After getting one back in the bottom of the sixth, the Trojans (8-3 BRD) rallied for the game-tying run during their final at bat to send the game to extra innings.
Solomon McCray scored twice and drove in a run to lead Lafayette, which, with the loss, fell to just one game up on second place Grafton in the Bay Rivers District standings.
New Kent 6 Lafayette 5
Lafayette- 201;002;00 – 5 4 2
New Kent- 300;011;01 – 6 7 1
WP: Brooks
LP: Keane
Lafayette (8-2 BRD)- McCray 1-2 (RBI, 2 runs)
New Kent (8-3 BRD)- M. Carpenter 2-3 (2 runs, GW RBI), S. Carpenter 2-4 (run, RBI), Beshai 1-3 (2 RBI)
Tabb Girls Soccer Dusts Lakeland
Katie Herold tallied two goals and two assists as Tabb’s girls soccer team ran past non-district foe Lakeland 8-0 on Wednesday.
Izzy Solari also chipped in with a pair of goals and Erin Fenton finished with three assists for the Tigers, who earned their third 8-0 victory of the season and have outscored opponents 33-1 during a 5-0-1 start to the season.
Tabb 8 Lakeland 0
Goals: Herold (2), Solari (2), Grounds, Richards, Erickson, Thompson
Assists: Fenton (3), Herold (2), Richards, Brewer
Early Hole Sinks HRA Girls
Hampton Roads Academy’s girls soccer team outscored Cape Henry Collegiate 3-1 during the final 40 minutes of their Tidewater Conference showdown Wednesday, but a 4-0 halftime deficit proved too much to overcome.
Kayla Rutherford finished with one goal and one assist apiece to lead the Navigators’ second-half charge, while Sophie Kingsbury made nine saves in goal.
CHC 5 HRA 3
Goals: HRA- Catie Slater, Rutherford, Laura Killough; CHC- Williams, Johnson
Assists: HRA- Rutherford, Keavy Baylor, Wave Spencer; CHC- Atherton, Williams, Longacher (2)
Saves: HRA- Kellyn DeChirico, Kingsbury (9); CHC- 7
Records: HRA- 3-4 (1-3 TCIS); CHC- 10-1 (5-0 TCIS)
