All was well that ended well for Marion on Friday afternoon at AR Construction Stadium. After taking a 10-3 lead to the top of the seventh, Marion Wynne to tie the game with a seven-run top of the seventh, before the Patriots manufactured the winning run when freshman Sophie Moore scored on a wild pitch in the bottom of the seventh inning for a dramatic 11-10 Patriot non-conference victory. The Marion (12-7 overall, 5-1 5A East) offensive attack featured 17 hits and just one strikeout against Wynne, led by sophomore Kolbie Triplett's 4-4 day at the plate with three runs scored and a walk. Chloe Miller (2-5 against Wynne with two 2 RBI), Kendall Eppes (2-4 with three RBI), Kynlee Shaull (2-4), Presley Kuhn (2-3 with a run), and Moore (2-3 with two runs, an RBI, and a walk) each came up with multiple hits. Wynne finished with five hits and six walks against Marion, led by Baylee Williams' 2-2 day at the dish with three RBI and a run scored. Palin Johnson walked twice and scored twice for Wynne, while Kaite Hodges drove in two runs and scored twice. Marion struck for one run in the bottom of the first when Eppes delivered Triplett with a single, but Wynne responded with two runs in the top of the second to take its only lead of the afternoon. The Yellowjackets did so when Williams plated Caetlyn Tansy with an infield single, and Johnson came down when Savannah Brown reached on an error for the 1-run Wynne advantage. Marion bounced back with a 5-run second, highlighted by a two-run single from freshman Madelyn Hamrick that plated Kaitlyn Austin and Kuhn, and another two-run hit from Miller that delivered Moore and Hamrick for a 5-2 Patriot advantage, and Marion's lead was 6-2 after two following Eppes's scoring double that delivered Triplett. The Pats led 7-3 entering the bottom of the sixth when the first five Patriots reached, and MHS scored when Eppes grounded into a fielder's choice to plate Triplett, and a Stinson base hit plated Kayson McClain and Maddie Cupples for a 10-3 Marion lead to open the seventh. That's when the first six Yellowjackets reached leading off the final frame, including a two-run Hodges double that delivered Brown and Hadley Denevan to get Wynne within 10-6. Hodges got the 'Jackets within 10-7 when she stole home, 10-8 when Katie Cowan drew a bases-loaded walk to force in Lanie Homan, and Wynne completed the comeback when Williams struck a single to right field that plated Tansy and Johnson to knot the score at 10 each with just one out. That's when McClain entered and retired two of the next three Yellowjackets to squash the Wynne rally and get Marion to the bottom of the seventh knotted at 10. Moore led off the fateful frame with a walk before moving to second on a Hamrick sacrifice bunt, and the ninth-grader stole third with just one out. However, Hodges got Miller to pop out in foul ground for the second out of the inning, leading to Moore sliding headfirst into home with the decisive run following the first pitch to Triplett.