UNIONVILLE — The Community Vikings turned a 5-1 deficit into their favor by scoring five runs in their final at-bat in the bottom of the seventh inning to defeat the Cascade Champions 6-5 in a District 7-AA baseball game Monday night.
The Champions wasted little time taking the lead in the opening inning. 
After Chance Brown opened the game with a single and Noah McGeary reached base on an error, Jaxon Sheffield drove in the first run of the game with an RBI single. 
A Sawyer Lovvorn groundout plated a run as Cascade took a 2-0 lead.
The Champs added another run in the second inning. 
Brayden Denison singled with one out and scored on a triple by McGeary to give the Champions a 3-0 lead.
Meanwhile, Sheffield was in command on the mound in his three innings of work for the Champs. 
The senior struck out seven and allowed just two hits, including six consecutive strikeouts to keep the Viking offense at bay.
Corey Paterick was the starting pitcher for the Vikings. 
After giving up three runs in the opening two innings, Paterick kept the Champions off the board in his next four innings of work while striking out five and giving up five hits. 
The Vikings broke the ice in the fourth inning as Blaine Paschal hit a solo homer to left to cut the Champion lead to 3-1.
The score remained at 3-1 until the top of the seventh when the Champions scored two runs without the benefit of a hit. 
A Community error coupled with four walks did the damage as the Champs took their 5-1 lead to the bottom of the seventh.
After a walk and a Champion error, Paterick singled to load the bases for the Vikings with no outs. 
Two walks brought home two runs before James Beech doubled to left field with one out to score two more runs and tie the game at 5-5.
An intentional walk loaded the bases and brought Isaiah Beech to the plate.  Beech prolonged the at-bat by fouling out seven pitches before coaxing a walk to score the winning run and give the Vikings the come-from-behind win. 
The Champions had five hits, with Brown's two singles leading the way.  
Maki Fleming's three singles led the seven-hit Viking attack.                      
          
Cascade 210 000 2 — 5  5  2      
Community 000 100 5 — 6  7  3
 
Cascade: Chance Brown 2-for-4, Brayden Denison 1-for-3, Noah McGeary 1-for-4, Jaxon Sheffield 1-for-4. 
Community: Maki Fleming 3-for-4, Drew Harris 1-for-3, James Beech 1-for-3, Corey Paterick 1-for-4, Blaine Paschal 1-for-4.
 
WP: Paschal
LP: Brown