GORE– On Monday afternoon, the Gore Pirates took the lead early but faltered in the third inning to Get bested by Oktaha 13-3 in four innings.

In the opening inning Gage Dame went yard over the left field fence to give the Pirates a quick 3-0 lead. Before Dane’s dinger, Eli Munson and James Brasuell both singled to set up Dane fore the three run blast to left.

Things went well for the Pirates until the top of the third when Dallas Hamilton led off with a walk and was later driven in by a double off the bat of Nic Tolbert to take the score to 3-1 Gore.

The real problem came with two outs when Lastyn Taylor doubled followed by singles from Brody Brock and Ryker Mccoy.

The big blow came from Hunter Ford with a homer over the right field fence to put the Tigers in the lead 7-3 and they never looked back.

The fourth inning was more of the same for Oktaha. Tolbert started things off with a homer to left, followed by a Carter McKenzie single, and a double by Luke Edwards.

Two walks and two errors by the Pirates added to Oktaha’s lead, and when the dust settled it was 13-3 after four innings.

The Pirates were unable to score, and the game ended via the “run rule” after four innings.

Tolbert, McKenzie and Brody Brock had the big bats for the Tigers each with two hits. Hunter Ford led in the RBI department with 3 for the game.

Conner Ward got the win for Oktaha, going 4 innings, allowing 7 hits and 3 runs and no walks. James Brasuell took the loss for Gore going 3-1/3 innings. Allowing 10 runs on 9 hits and walking 3 Tiger hitters.

Oktaha (9-5) will be back in action tomorrow when they travel to face the 18-7 Porter Pirates, and Gore (10-7) will be competing in the Riverside conference tournament this Thursday thru Saturday.