New Palestine High School

Jacob Morris hit a grand slam and drove in seven runs Monday, helping lead the New Palestine baseball team to a 21-8 victory over host Knighstown. Jackson Kamp and Rigg Mahurin each had four hits, leading an 18-hit attack. Eight of the hits were for extra bases. Kamp was 4-for-6 with three doubles, a run and two RBI. Mahurin was 4-for-4 with two runs, two doubles and three RBI. Morris was 2-for-6 with three runs and seven RBI. In addition to his homer, he also hit a double. Wyatt Mathies was 2-for-4 with three runs and an RBI. Nic Deering was 2-for-4 with a double, two runs and two RBI. Michael Thorpe was 2-for-4 with three runs scored. Henry Thorpe was 1-for-3 with a run and three RBI, while Adam Rickey was 1-for-3 with three runs scored. Five Dragons pitchers saw the mound, with Henry Thorpe earning the win in relief, fanning three in two perfect innings. Kamp's RBI single put the Dragons up a run in the first, but the Panthers scored three times in the bottom of the frame to take the lead. The Dragons' big inning was the second. After loading the bases with one out, Mathies forced in a run with a walk. Morris followed with a grand slam to left, putting the Dragons up 6-3. The Dragons started the line moving again, as Kamp followed with a double and Mahurin walked. Deering drove in a run with a double and Mahurin scored on Henry Thorpe's RBI groundout. The Dragons' 8-3 lead was short-lived, as Knightstown scored five times in the bottom of the inning. But the Dragons re-took the lead in the third, again loading the bases, this time with none out, on two singles and a walk. An error forced home the go-ahead run. Two bases-loaded walks to Mahurin and Henry Thorpe sandwiched around an RBI infield hit by Deering to add three more and put NP up 12-8. In the fifth, Kamp and Mahurin led off with back-to-back doubles to plate a run. After the bases were loaded, Ben Hirschy and Jace Jaques forced in runs with walks, while another run came home on an error, giving the Dragons a 16-8 edge. The Dragons added a run in the sixth when Henry Thorpe hit an RBI single to center, and four more in the eighth on a two-run double by Morris, followed by back-to-back RBI doubles from Kamp and Mahurin. The Dragons are now 10-2 on the season. They next play Tuesday at home against Greenfield-Central.