It was a bittersweet reunion between the Around The Corner Spiders and the Lakewood High School baseball field as the Spiders took on the Ohio Titans out of Westlake.

The Spiders, who are made up of LHS graduates from 2002 to 2007 and some current baseball coaches, faced a $500 tab to rent out the field for the non-conference game. The team held two dunk-tank fundraisers at ATC to raise $420 towards the cost of the field. Some of the players on the roster did not have a chance to play on the new turf surface, since the field was resurfaced in 2003.

Alex Cammock was named the starting pitcher and was ousted after a dismal performance, giving up eight runs, six of which were earned on 125 pitches in just 5-1/3 innings. Cammock gave up six hits, eight walks, and hit one batter, while striking out three.

The Spiders did not go down quietly, and scored four runs in the bottom of the sixth inning, thanks to two RBI’s by Mike Allen (who had a terrific diving catch in deep center field later on) and one RBI from Troy Matthews and Zack Schreiber. Allen led the team with two hits.

The 18-1 Titans collected their nine runs on eleven hits, scoring two runs in the first inning, one in the fourth, three in the sixth and one in the ninth to distinguish a second four run comeback by the Spiders