YORKTOWN, Ind. — Brian Dudley said the tension was so thick, a "haze was forming."
Wapahani and Delta were in a classic pitcher's duel, locked at 1-1 after five innings and fighting for Saturday's Delaware County baseball championship at Yorktown High School. Raiders senior Gavin Lash and Eagles junior Kayden Thomas repeatedly exchanged blows on the mound, and neither offense could muster a breakthrough hit with runners on base.
Then, with two outs in the top of the sixth inning, Wapahani senior and former Eagle Daniel Blevins crushed one into the night sky and over the left field wall, erupting his team's dugout as the two-run homer gave the Raiders a lead they'd never relinquish.