By John Rittenhouse
The Hills Thunder recorded their second amatuer baseball win of the season while playing two games in Lakefield Sunday.
Hills opened the day by edging Truman by one run in a game scheduled to go seven innings but which needed eight frames to be completed.
Fairmont kept the Thunder from celebrating too long by upending Hills 11-1 during the finale.
Playing as the home team, Hills plated a run in the bottom of the eighth inning to nip Truman 6-5 in the opener.
With the score knotted at five, Kurt Bly got things rolling in the eighth with a single. Bly eventually scored the game-winning run when Adam Hansen completed a two-hit game with an RBI single.
Truman drew first blood in the game by scoring four runs in the top of the third, but Hills countered with single runs in the third and fourth innings to make it a 4-2 game.
Bly reached base on an error and scored on Jarud LangÕs RBI double in the third.
Chris Putnam singled and scored on a passed ball in the fourth for the Thunder.
Truman scored once in the top of the fifth to increase its lead to three runs (5-2), but Hills countered with three runs in the bottom of the fifth to knot the score at five.
Bly walked before scoring on Hansen's two-run homer. Putnam walked and scored the tying run on a Truman error.
Putnam pitched all eight innings to receive the win for Hills. He fanned 10 batters without allowing a walk.
Hansen drove in three runs at the plate. Lang doubled three times and chased home one run.
Hills scored the game's first run against Fairmont before falling 11-1 during Sunday's second game in Lakefield.
Matt Carroll singled and scored on Wade Jellema's fielder's choice in the bottom of the second to give Hills a 1-0 lead.
Fairmont, however, scored seven runs in the third inning and added four more in the fifth to win the game by the 10-run rule.
Hansen worked the first five and one-third innings on the hill and was saddled with the loss. Six walks hurt Hansen's cause.
Chad Rauk recorded the final two outs on the mound for Hills, striking out one of the batters he faced.
Carroll was perfect at the plate by going two-for-two with a double. Lang was two-for-three at the dish.
The 2-9 Thunder host Pipestone and Luverne at noon and 2 p.m. respectively on Sunday.