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Turner comes up big in Dover’s 1st win
They had to sweat it out until the very end, but the Dover Longhorns on Thursday managed to grab their first win of this fall baseball season.
After building a comfortable lead, the Longhorns held on in the top of the seventh to down Mulhall-Orlando 5-3 at home.
The win upped their mark to 1-3.
Damion Turner had a gem going for six innings as he shut down the Panthers, allowing just four hits to that point.
But, after Dover posted its five-run lead, the Panthers were able to finally strike in the seventh.
The Panthers gathered four more hits, the last of which put the tying run on base.
But Turner coaxed a pop-out to the next batter to put an end to the threat.
None of the runs were earned as Dover committed two errors in the inning as well and six overall.
But Turner overcame them by striking out 12 batters.
Dover got its offense in four different at-bats.
Joriaun Caldwell doubled and scored on an Eduardo Gamez single in the first inning.
Turner helped his own cause when he reached on an error and eventually stole home in the third.
The Longhorns doubled their lead in the fifth as Kasen Harviston pushed a run across with his single and later scored on Emory Norton’s double.
Caldwell singled in the top of the sixth, got to third on an error and made it 5-0 Longhorns when Lance Dunigan singled.
Dover had seven hits total with Caldwell being the long Longhorn to tally more than one.