Dragons, Wall cut down Oaks to advance to district semis

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OAK HILL — The Oak Hill Oaks postseason tournament hopes ran smack into a Wall.

Fairland’s Ethan Wall pitched 5 strong innings and also went 2-3 with a double, a home run and drove in 3 runs as the Dragons beat the Oak Hill Oaks 13-2 in a run rule win in the Division 5 district quarterfinals on Wednesday.

Fairland (8-17) will play Lucasville Valley at 4 p.m. on Thursday at Veteran Stadium in Chillicothe.

The Dragons banged out 11 hits with Wyatt Thomas and Luke Brown each going 2-5 with a pair of RBI while Kaden Wiseman was 2-4 with an RBI.

Wall hit a solo home run in the first inning as Fairland took a 1-0 lead.

The Dragons came back with 4 runs in the second inning.

Kaden Wiseman and Wyatt Thomas singled to start the inning and Wall delivered a 2-run double and it was 3-0. Garrett Cornwell doubled home Wall and then came around to score on an error.

The Oaks were guilty of 7 errors that led to 6 unearned runs.

Oak Hill (9-7) got on the scoreboard with two runs in the third inning to cut the deficit to 5-2.

Eddie Abele  walked, Joseph Anteby singled, both moved up on a fielder’s choice and Abele scored on a passed ball. Jesse Zachariah reached on an error to score Anteby.

But the Dragons answered in a big way by scoring 6 runs in the fourth inning to open up an 11-2 lead and created the run rule win with a pair of runs in the sixth.

(Cleveland Browns legendary fan Bryan Walters contributed to this story).

Fairland 140 602 = 13 11 1

Oak Hill 002 000 = 2 4 7

Ethan Wall, Garrett Cornwell (6) and Josh Gillespie. Jesse Zachariah, Andy Meldick (4) and Eddie Abele. W–Wall (IP-5.0, H-2, R-2, ER-0, K-8, BB-5). Cornwell (IP-1.0, H-2, R-0, K-2, BB-0). L–Zachariah (IP-3.0, H-7, R-5, ER-5, K-3, BB-2). Meldick (IP-3.0, H-4, R-8, ER_2, K-0, BB-3). Hitting–Fairland: Wyatt Thomas 2-5 2-RBI, Ethan Wall 2-3 3-RBI 2B HR, Garrett Cornwell 1-3 RBI 2B, Luke Brown 2-5 2-RBI, Josh Gillespie 1-4 RBI, Kaden Wiseman 2-4 RBI; Oak Hill: Andy Meldick 1-3, Joseph Anteby 1-2, Mikey Williams 1-1, Jesse Zachariah 1-3.