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Sea Ray roared out of the box to take a 4-0 lead after just one inning of play in the morning contest but could not get another runner across the plate.

The Dawgs scored in five of the next six innings and put the game out of reach with a two-spot in the top of the seventh and final frame.

Monroe County players on the Sea Ray squad include Sweetwater Wildcats Adam Worley and Matt Ellison, Tellico Plains Bears Forrest Medina and Sequoyah Chiefs Zach McPherson, Aaron Neal and Matt Williams.

Michael Underwood also plays for Sea Ray along with McMinn Central’s Dustin Watson, Colby Hamilton, Gage Moses and Lucas Cobb.

Hamilton topped Sea Ray batters with two of the team’s three hits, a double and a single.

Worley had a single for Sea Ray’s other hit and reached base every time at the plate by walking once and beating out a throw to first after a dropped third strike.

Watson, Medina, Hamilton and Worley each scored one run and five Sea Ray batters – Worley, Ellison, Watson, Medina and Cobb – worked Dawgs’ pitchers for bases on balls.

Ellison stole two bases for Sea Ray and McPherson and Cobb each pilfered one.

The Dawgs had five hits, all singles, and collected six walks.

After shutting down the Dawgs in the top of the first inning Sea Ray took a big lead in the home half of the frame.

Worley laced a one-out single to become his team’s first base runner before Watson and Medina drew bases on balls to fill the bags.

Hamilton followed with a two-RBI single, plating Worley and Watson to put Sea Ray on top.

Medina and Hamilton moved up 90 feet on a wild pitch and both raced home when the Dawgs booted McPherson’s ground ball. McPherson stole second but was thrown out trying to steal third.

A strike out and a pop-up ended the inning with Sea Ray on top 4-0.

The Dawgs cut their deficit in half with two runs in the top of the second and kept Sea Ray off the board in spite of issuing bases on balls to Cobb and Worley in the bottom of the inning.

Two walks and a long single got the Dawgs even in their half of the third before Sea Ray went three up and three down in the home half.

The Dawgs took a 5-4 edge in the fourth with a single, a wild pitch and an RBI ground out.

Sea Ray threatened in the fourth when Ellison walked then stole second and third but the threat was snuffed out when he was picked off.

Sea Ray got only two more runners aboard in the contest.

Worley out-ran a throw after a dropped third strike in the fifth and Hamilton doubled in the sixth frame.

The Dawgs added one run without a hit in the fifth and two more on two walks and a single in the seventh to produce the final count of 8-4.

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