The Atlantic Trojan softball team came back from 7-1 deficit on Friday night, to win 8-7 at home against the Ballard Bombers. Ballard came out swinging early in the top of the 1st scoring two quick runs of off three straight hits. Atlantic had a response in the bottom of the second scoring one run of their own from a Peyton McLaren RBI double to make it 2-1.

Things shifted for the Bombers in the top of the 4th where they went on to score five straight runs with base hit after base hit to make the game 7-1. Atlantic had a response of their own starting with a Makenna Sonntag 2 RBI double to score 4 runs in the bottom of the 4th to make it 7-5. The Trojans then brought in 2 runs in the bottom of the 5th to it and a RBI single from Riley Wood in the bottom of the 6th gave them the go ahead run.

Atlantic had an impressive night from the efforts of Peyton McLaren who went 2-3 with an RBI and Makenna Sonntag going 1-2 with a 2 RBI double.

Atlantic Head Coach Terry Hinzmann’s message to his players on being down 7-1 was a concise one.

Atlantic’s next game will be a double header series at home against Clarinda. Coach Hinzmann hopes to see his teams effort from tonight carry over into Tuesday’s game.

The Trojans improve to 3-1 with the win. The Bombers fall to 1-3 and face off against Interstate-35 Saturday morning.