TOPSHAM —In a back-and-forth contest recently, the Ararat Babe Ruth baseball team, sponsored by Lee’s Tire of Topsham, powered past Bath, 11-6.

Bath opened up the scoring in the top of the first against otherwise- sharp Ararat southpaw Austin Berry with an RBI single, plating one. Ararat answered with two runs in the third when Shane Tanguay and Cody Bowker scored on ground balls by Connor Moody and Brian Cobb.

Cal Davies tossed a scoreless third for Ararat, the Ararat bats picked up where it left of f in the fourth. A pair of walks issued to Ian Brady and Trevor Brown, and a single by Ryan Robertson set up a bases-clearing triple from first baseman Kyle Secone, who later scored to make for a five- run game.

Bath added one run in the fourth. Ararat was retired in order in the fifth, and then it was Bath’s turn. A pair of errors in the corner infield, a pair of walks, a double and a passed ball knotted the game at 6- 6 after five frames.

Ararat answered immediately in the sixth with a long two-out double from Brown, scoring Brady from first and putting Ararat up, 7- 6. Brown came on to pitch the bottom half of the sixth, striking out two and preserving the one-run lead.

Ararat’s Berry, Tanguay, Bowker and Nick D’Andrea all scored insurance runs in the top of the seventh, making it 11- 6. Bowker closed it out, also striking out a pair in a perfect seventh.

Kobe Clark was the winning pitcher for Ararat.