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By Paul Kopsky
The Lindbergh Flyers' baseball team has had difficulty winning Suburban West Conference games early in the season in recent years, but they managed to exorcise some of those demons on Monday, thanks to a hard-fought, 11-10 home win over the Fox Warriors.
"It was a long game," said Lindbergh head coach Tim Cochran. "It was probably the earliest we've won a conference game in the last three or four years. Last year, we won one conference game [all year], and this year we have won one already."
But it wasn't easy for the Flyers, who saw their four-run seventh inning lead disappear when the Warriors rallied with four runs to tie it at 10-10 in that final frame.
The Flyers, though, got off the mat and put together the game-winning rally in the bottom of the seventh.
Rob Reiner led the inning off with a single, his third hit of the afternoon. Reiner advanced to second on a wild pitch. Then, Eric Ewald, who scored five runs on the day, delivered a single which scored Reiner with the winning run.
Daken Berry picked up the win in relief for Lindbergh, while
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