Lightning baseball: Leesburg edges Winter Garden in delayed, extra-inning game

WINTER GARDEN — The Leesburg Lightning came out on the winning side of see-saw battle with the Winter Garden Squeeze Friday night with an 8-7 win i...

July 1, 2022
1:28 PM

WINTER GARDEN — The Leesburg Lightning came out on the winning side of see-saw battle with the Winter Garden Squeeze Friday night with an 8-7 win in nine innings at West Orange High School. With the win, Leesburg improved to 12-6, while Winter Garden fell to 7-9.Noah Best drove in the winning run in the top of the ninth with a groundout to second base that scored Austin Brinling from third. Best finished the day 1-for-5 with three of the biggest RBIs of the game coming in the final two innings.Leesburg baseball: Lightning score early, often in 12-7 win against SqueezeLeesburg Lightning: Victor named FCSL Pitcher of the WeekEustis grad Ty Van Dyke gets first startThe game was considered an extra-inning affair because was originally scheduled for seven innings followed a lengthy rain delay that delayed the start for nearly 90 minutes.

Tom Cavanaugh