One night after defeating Hudson on Senior Night, the Brooksville Central Bears baseball squad closed out the regular season with a come from behind, 5-3 victory over the Citrus Hurricanes.

With Thursday night’s victory, the Bears (16-9, 7-5) swept the two-game, season series against the Hurricanes.

Central first baseman Trevor Muller delivered the game-winning hit, breaking up a 3-3 tie in the top of the seventh with an RBI single off Citrus reliever Austin Bogart.

Bogart, in relief of starter Alex Atkinson, dug himself out of two big holes in the fifth and sixth inning. The seventh inning though was his complete undoing.

Bears shortstop Matt Clark started the game’s final frame with a grounder back to Bogart. Bogart overran the ball and in doing so had no play at first base. Central’s DH Tom Sorrentino was fanned by Bogart, his fifth strikeout of the night, for the first out of the inning. Scott Dwyer, a Bogart strikeout victim in the fifth, followed Sorrentino. Clark stole second base during the Dwyer at bat, putting the winning run in scoring position. Bogart proceeded to walk both Dwyer and the Bears next batter, Trevor McKenna. That set up Muller’s bases loaded heroics.

Cy Yates came in to spell Bogart after Muller’s RBI single brought home Clark. Yates inherited a bases loaded, one out situation. Hank Shiver, the first batter Yates faced, hit a fly ball deep enough to right field to bring Sorrentino home for a Bears insurance run. It was Shiver’s second RBI of the night.

Having briefly trailing 1-0 after one inning and retaking the lead in the second, it looked as if Citrus would prevail.

Both squads got a run in the first inning. McKenna hit a two-out single off Atkinson to score C.J. Martinez. Bogart led off the Citrus half of the first inning with a walk, proceeded to steal second base and then tagged up to third on a Ben Wright fly out to deep center field. On Cody Bogart’s ground out to shortstop, Bogart came around to the score 1-1.

Ben Wright gave Citrus a 3-1 lead in the second. The first baseman hit a Keslter Harbuck offering hard done the left field line for a two-out, two-run double. Despite adding four more hits, the Hurricanes would be held scoreless the rest of the game. A bases-loaded, one out situation in the sixth was Citrus’ best chance but Central reliever Dante Hamilton got Cody Bogart to fly out to shallow right field and Alex Barbee to pop out to first.

Shiver’s first RBI of the game, a single off Atkinson in the fourth, pulled the Bears within one run, 3-2.

In the fifth inning, Bogart took the hill and walked the  first batter he faced, Zach Sorrentino. After Zach Sorrentino took 4 balls, Bogart was called for a balk. With Sorrentino in scoring position, C.J. Martinez found the right – centerfield gap. The ball rolled to the wall scoring Sorrentino to tie the game 3-3.

With the loss, Citrus’ five game winning streak comes to end.