By RAY BENTON
Leader sports editor
The Centennial Bank Panthers got a wild win over Little Rock Blue on Tuesday at Central High in Little Rock. Cabot trailed 15-8 after six innings, but rallied for a 17-15 victory.
Justin Goff had a monster game at the plate. He went 4 for 4 with a home run, a double, two singles and five RBIs. Tyler Carter and Ryan Logan also got three hits each as the Panthers piled up 17 base hits.
The Panthers got seven back in the seventh inning to make it 15-15. Goff, who didn’t make an out the entire game, walked to start the rally. Dustin Morris also walked and Cole Thomas singled for an RBI. Kyle Kaufman reached on an error at second base that also scored a run. Ryan Logan and Bryson Morris flew out, but back-to-back doubles by Grant Bell and Casey Vaughan and singled by Tyler Carter and Goff competed the rally.
Cabot won the game with two in the ninth. Carter and Goff got one-out singles to start the rally. Dustin Morris walked and Thomas reached on an error at shortstop that also scored Carter from third. On Kaufman’s at bat, Goff scored on wild pitch to set the final margin.
Goff hit a three-run home run in the fourth inning to pull Cabot close after a big LR Blue rally. Burnett had doubled and Thomas singled to set the stage for Goff’s shot.
The Panthers led briefly with three runs in the top of the second inning. Carter singled and Goff doubled to drive him home. A sacrifice by Thomas scored Goff. Wilkie and Bryson Morris walked and Bulice singled to drive in the third run of the inning.
Little Rock Blue scored three in the bottom of the second, but Cabot got the lead back with a run in the top of the third. Vaughan doubled and Goff drove him home to make it 4-3 Cabot.
Blue then scored six in the bottom of the third to make it 9-4, but Cabot’s four in the fourth made it 9-8.
Blue added three more in the fifth and three in the sixth to take the big lead.
