PL Gets Comeback Win 5-3 over Apple Valley

PL Gets Comeback Win 5-3 over Apple Valley

It was a very hard fought, come from behind 5-3 victory for Prior Lake Legion over Apple Valley on Thursday night at Memorial Park.

To this point in the season, it seems like come from behind wins are what the PL Legion team does best.

PL was down 3-0 for much of the game until a five run outburst in the 5th inning. Garrett Gueltzow got the inning started with a single to left. Two batters later, Kyle Manderfeld singled to right to make it first and third. Zac Repinski followed with a double to right center to drive in Gueltzow and move Manderfeld to third. Jon Houston then hit a huge double of his own to right center to drive in Manderfeld and Repinski to tie the game at 3 apiece. Houston then scored following a passed ball and a wild pitch to give Prior Lake a 4-3 lead. After Kyle Schmidt was hit by a pitch and Tyler Edwards walked, Tommy Keating singled to left to drive in Schmidt and give PL their 5-3 lead that it would not relinquish.

Austin Truso got the start on the mound. He did not have his best stuff but did enough to keep the team in the game.

Tony Loehr got the win in relief, going 2 2/3 innings and only giving up 1 hit and 1 strikeout.

Jon Houston made the play of the game in the 6th when he dove to his left to stop a ground ball and threw the runner out from his backside. The play would have been very worthy of making it on SportCenter's "Top 10 Plays."

Prior Lake is back in action tonight at Memorial against Inver Grove Heights at 7:30pm.