Asheboro- The Blowfish muscled up and made McCrary Park look small, clubbing four of the game’s seven homers en route to a 14-7 win over the Asheboro Zookeepers Friday night.

After trading zeroes in the first, Lexington County came alive for a six spot in the top of the second. Phillip Ard began the inning with a walk, and moved to 3rd on a sacrifice bunt and E1 off the bat of Ty Dooley. After a walk to Zander Buchan, the Blowfish scored via a wild pitch, a sacrifice fly from Jonathan Jaime, and an RBI single from Wells Sykes. With two on and three runs already home, Zach Cowart continued his torrid start with a three run blast to right center field, his second of the year.

While Asheboro added a run in each of the next two innings with solo homers, starter Kyle Percival tightroped out of danger and kept each inning at one run. The Blowfish got both runs back after Dalton Reeves reached on a two-out error, and Ard made the Zookeepers pay with his second homer in as many games.

The Blowfish looked to be destined for a blowout win after four more runs came across in the 5th thanks to a leadoff blast from Buchan, an RBI double from Warren Holzemer, RBI single from Cowart, and RBI double from Reeves, pushing the lead to 12-2.

Sam Simpson came on in relief and allowed one run in his first two innings of work, but ran into trouble in the 7th as 3 runs came home on a groundout and a two run homer. With the score 12-6 and the momentum with Asheboro, head coach KC Brown turned to Slaide Naturman to end the inning via a strikeout looking.

As they did multiple times last night, the Blowfish answered Asheboro’s offense with more of their own, pushing a run across in both the 8th and 9th on a Landry Mead home run and a Cowart sac fly. Naturman allowed an RBI double in the 9th but nothing more, and earned his second win of the summer.

Zach Cowart had 5 RBI, and every batter had at least one hit while 8 of the 9 in the lineup posted an RBI. Naturman ended his time in a Blowfish uniform with 5 Ks to bring his season total to 20.

Lexington County has now won 4 in a row for the first time this summer, and will take on the Florence Flamingos at home tonight at 7:05.