The Karns City baseball team has played its share of wild games this season.

Perhaps the wildest of them all was under the Pullman Park lights Monday night.

The two teams combined for 22 runs through seven innings on only 13 hits.

Eventually, Clarion won the war of attrition, scoring the go-ahead run in the top of the eighth inning and escaped a bases-loaded jam in the bottom of the frame for a 12-11 win over Karns City.

Ryan Slaugenhoup ended the madness for the Bobcats with a RBI single that scored Hunter Craddock in the top of the eighth.

Cameron LaPinto wiggled out of two bases-loaded jams — the first in the bottom of the seventh and then again in the bottom of the eighth to get the win for Clarion.

For Karns City, it was more about missed opportunities.

“We definitely needed someone to step up and get a big hit,” said Karns City coach Sluggo Smith. “And we didn't get it.”

If it wasn't for a clutch play by LaPinto, Karns City could have notched a walk-off win in the bottom of the seventh.

LaPinto sent things to extra innings by snagging a sharp liner back to the mound after Karns City had loaded the bases with one out, and threw to third for a double play to preserve the 11-11 tie after seven innings.

He got a fly out to center to end the game.

For awhile, it looked like Karns City was going to ride a nine-run inning to the win.

Mallick Metcalfe started the game and got a no-decision for KAC.

He was chased after four-plus innings with a 10-4 lead. It seemed like another game and another lifetime ago when he yielded to Cole Sherwin.

Metcalfe did some damage at the plate, too.

His two-run triple was one of the big blows in the nine-run fourth inning KC put together after falling behind 4-1 early.

The Gremlins sent 13 batters to the plate in the frame and pounded out six of their eight hits through seven innings in the long rally.

Conner Shaffner had two singles in the fourth and Braeden Rodgers, Zach Blair and Mitchell Waldrop had RBI singles in the uprising.

Clarion would not go quietly, putting up four runs in the fifth and two more in the sixth to cut the Gremlin lead to 11-10.

“We rallied,” Smith said. “If you can't throw strikes and field the ball, it doesn't matter how many times to rally.”

Walks and wild pitches were the order of the night. Errors, too, which kept innings alive and the runs piling up.

Clarion scored its last seven runs while getting just one hit.

Braeden Rodgers relieved Sherwin in the seventh and hit leadoff batter LaPinto, who eventually came around to score on a wild pitch to tie the game at 11-11.

Clarion 210 142 11 — 12 6 4

Karns City 001 910 00 — 11 8 3

W: LaPinto. L: Rodgers

Clarion (9-6): Dawson Smail 1B RBI, Dylan Alston 1B, Cameron LaPinto 1B RBI, Devin Lauer 1B, Bryce Brinkley 1B RBI, Ryan Slaugenhoup 1B RBI

Karns City (6-5): Braeden Rodgers 1B RBI, Mallick Metcalfe 3B 1B 4-RBI, Zach Blair 2-1B RBI, Conner Shaffner 2-1B RBI, Mitchell Waldrop 1B RBI

Wednesday: Redbank Valley at Karns City