Historic Grayson Stadium gives up very few home runs, but it could not hold Travis Demeritte, who homered twice to lead the Hickory Crawdads to a 10-1 win over the Savannah Sand Gnats Thursday night at Historic Grayson Stadium. Demeritte leads the SAL with 23 homers.
The Crawdads (24-16/65-44) scored twice in the first, using an RBI double from centerfielder Zach Cone and a single from rightfielder Jairo Beras to grab a 2-0 lead before the Gnats came to bat.
Demeritte drilled a long homerun down the leftfield line off starter Logan Taylor in the second to put the Crawdads up 3-0. He added his second longball off reliever Hunter Carnevale in the ninth to finish the game's scoring.
The Gnats (23-16/67-38) scored their only run of the game in the bottom of the third. Shortstop Yeixon Ruiz singled, stole second and scored on center fielder Champ Stuart's single into center.
Hickory also scored on a bases-loaded walk in the fifth inning and three times in an eighth inning that was marred by three Savannah errors.
The Gnats will send RHP Ricky Knapp (4-6, 4.21) to the mound Friday against RHP David Ledbetter (4-4, 7.27).
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