Members of the Freeport baseball team celebrate after rallying for five runs in the top of the seventh inning to beat section rival Knoch, 5-3, Wednesday afternoon at Kelly Automotive Park. The game was a battle of unbeatens.

Knoch seemingly had the game stuffed in its back pocket.

The Knights had a 3-0 lead over Freeport through six innings Wednesday at Kelly Automotive Park as Jack Bartek was working on a two-hit shutout.

“But you gotta play seven innings to win,” Knoch coach Sean O'Donnell said. “We only played six.”

The Yellowjackets scored five runs in the seventh to come away with a 5-3 victory in this battle of Section 1-4A baseball unbeatens.

Matt Charlton's two-out, two-run single to right finished off the winning rally for Freeport (6-0, 6-0).

Knoch (6-1, 5-1) broke a scoreless tie by scoring three times in the fifth.

“This is a tough loss, but it's only one loss,” O'Donnell said. “We're still in good shape. We can't let this game affect us down the road.”

Read the full story in Thursday's Butler Eagle.