FISHERSVILLE – Alleghany handed Wilson first district loss of the season on Friday as the Cougars rode their hot bats to a 10-4 win.

Alleghany came out swinging against Wilson ace Christian Brewer, ripping of three extra-base hits in the first seven pitches of the game. Kai Rowland led off with a triple and scored on a double by Jalen Raether. Raether trotted home on Graham Brewster’s double, making the score 2-0. Brewster stole third and a walk to Brady May put runners at the corners. On a pickoff throw to first, Brewster broke from third and beat the throw home giving the visitors a 3-0 lead.

Nolan Deaver led off Wilson’s half of the first inning with a single but was caught stealing for the first out. Addy Flesher walked and Frankie Kovac singled. Both runners scored on Brewer’s double, making it a one-run game, 3-2.

In the third inning, May tripled with one out and scored on a single by Tucker Phillips for a 4-2 Cougars lead.

Wilson answered in the bottom of the third when Flesher doubled and took third on a balk. Brewer singled to center, cutting the Alleghany lead to 4-3.

The Cougars pulled away with a six-run outburst in the sixth, highlighted by Brewster’s two-run homer.

Brewster was 3-for-4 with three RBIs to lead Alleghany’s 16-hit attack. May, Phillips, Trey Cook, Bronson Shinault and Buddy Leisure-White each contributed two base hits.

Brewer was 2-for-4 with three RBIs to pace the Hornets offense. Kovac and Cole Kindig each had two base hits.

Buffalo Gap 6, Staunton 5

BUFFALO GAP – Buffalo Gap scored all of its runs in the fourth inning to erase a three-run deficit and the Bison held on for a 6-5 win over the Staunton Storm.

Riley Cook’s first-inning sacrifice fly put the Storm on the scoreboard. A two-run single in the top of the fourth by Amani Bady increased Staunton’s lead to 3-0.

Brycen Keyton’s single to center in the bottom of the fourth drove in Gap’s first run. With the bases loaded. Shane Huffer was hit by a pitch to make it a one-run game and a single by Brady Richie tied the score. Gap then took the lead, 4-3, when Dalton Coffey walked with the bases full. Brandon Argenbright capped the inning with a two-run single, putting Gap ahead 6-3.

A sac fly by Zack Hinkle in the fifth inning, pulled the Storm closer, 6-4.

Gabe Johnson doubled with one out in the seventh inning and scored on a two-out double by Nathan Neil, trimming Gap’s lead to 6-5. Gap pitcher Walker Thompson finished off the complete game when he retired Riley Cook on a fly to center, stranding the potential tying run at second base.

Thompson allowed five runs, three earned on five hits in his complete-game effort. He struck out seven and walked three.

Gap had just four hits in the game, but three Staunton errors led to five unearned runs for the Bison.

Alleghany Stuns Wilson; Gap Edges Storm