Jack Denne drove in Evan Saunders to give St. Michael-Albertville a 5-4 walk-off win over visiting Chaska on Friday in baseball.
Saunders hit a one-out single in the bottom of the seventh inning. After a wild pitch on the first pitch to Eric Fouquette advanced Saunders to second, the Hawks intentionally walked the batter to set runners up at first and second. Denne ended the game two pitches later.
The Hawks scored two runs in the sixth inning to tie the score 4-4. They got the first two runners on via a pair of Knights errors. Henry Bushey hit a single and AJ Cantu hit a sacrifice fly to left field to get the runners home.
Kaden Amundson scored on a wild pitch in the bottom of the first to get the Knights on the board first. Hunter Palmer led off the third inning with a single and stolen base before scoring on a double by Amundson to extend the lead to 2-0.
Nathan Rosenberg doubled to scored Nolan Kemp and Drew Benson to get the score tied at 2-2 in the fourth inning.
The Knights quickly re-claimed a two-run lead in the bottom of the fourth with the help of two Hawks' errors.
Max Sutter struck out eight in six innings and Zach Romans threw a 1-2-3 inning for the Knights.
Karver Miller had two hits and pitched 6⅓ innings for the Hawks.