Matt Allen homered and Chad Bell had four singles as Karns City came back from a 9-0 deficit after three innings to beat Saxonburg 15-10 in American Legion baseball action Thursday afternoon.

Coty McGregor also had three hits for Karns City (4-11).

Kyle Texter gave up just one run in four innings of relief to get the win and give Saxonburg (15-2) just its second loss of the season.

Dan Pickard homered for Saxonburg.

In other action:

Greg Slack homered and Drew Snyder had a triple, double and two singles to lead a 17-hit attack by Zelienople in a 10-1 win over Center Township.

Adam Spithaler had three hits and two RBI to highlight a 7-2 Mars victory over Butler Township.

Jim McCaslin picked up the win and added four RBI and Jay McDonough drove home three more as Meridian blanked East Butler 10-0 in five innings.

Karns City 000 219 3 - 15 17 4

Saxonburg 144 010 0 - 10 8 4

WP:

Kyle Texter (4 IP) 3 strikeouts, 4 walks.

LP:

Kevin Bacon (6 IP) 4 strikeouts, 3 walks

Karns City (4-11):

Matt Allen HR, 1B; Chad Bell 4-1B; Cody McGregor 3-1B; Matt Stimac 2B, 1B; Andrew Double 2-1B

Saxonburg (15-2):

Dan Pickard HR, 1B; Jeff Foster 3B, 2-1B

Friday:

Butler City at Karns City

Saturday:

Center Township at Saxonburg

Center Township 100 000 0 - 1 4 2

Zelienople 101 701 x - 10 17 3

WP:

Jared Rectenwald (7 IP) 4 strikeouts, 1 walk.

LP:

Bruce Cornibe (3

IP) 2 strikeouts, 1 walk

Center Township (10-8):

Adam Miller 2-1B; Clayton Smith 1B; Ryan Banner 1B

Zelienople (8-10):

Greg Slack HR, 2-1B; Drew Snyder 3B, 2-1B, 2B; Brett Hancher 3-1B; Cory McClain 2-1B

Saturday:

Butler City at Center Township (2 p.m.); Center Township at Saxonburg (6 p.m.).

Sunday:

Zelienople at Saxonburg (2 p.m.); Zelienople at Karns City (6 p.m.)

Butler Twp. 200 000 0 - 2 3 2

Mars 030 013 x - 7 11 0

WP:

Mike Skurko (5 IP) 3 strikeouts, 3 walks.

LP:

Brian Bell (1

IP) 1 strikeout, 3 walks

Butler Township:

Joe Rekich 2B

Mars (11-8):

Adam Spithaler 3-1B, 2 RBI; Mike Skurko 2B; Mike Dallmus 2-1B; Adam Fleming 2-1B

Saturday:

Karns City at Mars

East Butler 000 00x x - 0 4 4

Meridian 415 0xx x - 10 10 1

WP:

Jim McCaslin (5 IP) 3 strikeouts, 0 walks.

LP:

Kevin Krause (

IP) 0 strikeouts, 1 walk

East Butler:

Ben Cottage 2-1B

Meridian (11-8):

Joe Black 3-1B; Aaron Ordy 2-1B; Jim McCaslin 2B, 4 RBI; Jay McDonough 1B, 3 RBI