The Skyview Storm beat the elements and beat the Mountain View Thunder, keeping their baseball season alive in the Class 4A District 4 tournament Monday night at Propstra Stadium.
The Storm scored eight runs in the first inning, then held off the Thunder 12-10 in a game played in steady rain.
Bryson Enge hit a triple and a double and drove in four runs to lead the Storm. Taylor Johnson had three hits and drove in three runs, and Leonard Barry drove in two runs.
Skyview will face Camas at 5 p.m. Wednesday in the second round.
Skyview and Mountain View players knew going in that if they did not get through three innings, the game would be replayed in its entirety. If it got through three innings and rain washed away the rest of the night, the game would have been suspended.
Radar appeared to show a big blob of yellow coming from the east, but it broke apart throughout the evening as it headed to Vancouver. The rain was steady, but never a downpour. Then it stopped for the final two innings.
Instead, there was a flood of runs.
Daniel Copeland came out of the pen in the first inning to help Skyview end a five-run Mountain View inning. Copeland would pitch the rest of the game for the win.
Jake Ryan and Preston Jones each drove in two runs for Mountain View, which took advantage of eight walks and two hit batsmen to score its 10 runs. Austin Hamilton hit a solo home run.
The Thunder got four runs in the fifth inning to make it a one-run game. Enge, though, hit a run-scoring double in the top of the seventh, capping his big night for the Storm.
• CAMAS 2, EVERGREEN 1 — Sam Jones and Reid Conlee were each 2-for-3 with an RBI, as the Papermakers ended Evergreen’s season.
Camas scored once in the third as Jones drove in Jared Bentley, who had tripled. Conlee’s hit in the fifth brought home Jones for a 2-0 lead.
Evergreen’s Greg Allen hit a double that scored Riley Ellison in the top of the seventh.
Jones got the final two outs on ground balls to preserve the victory for Hunter Bruno.
Stars of the day
• Joshua Tully, King’s Way Christian baseball, was 2 for 3 with two RBI, stole three bases and scored the winning run in the bottom of the seventh inning as the Knights beat Elma 6-5 in the 1A district tournament.
• Mo Spieth, Union softball, was 2 for 3 with a two-run home run and three total RBI in the Titans’ 9-8 win over Skyview.
• Bridget Standard, Fort Vancouver golf, shot an 84 at Lewis River to lead the 3A district tournament by nine shots after the first of two days.
• Sam Rice, Ridgefield softball, was 3 for 5 with a home run and a double in a 20-12 win at Mark Morris. She had four RBI and scored four runs.
