There aren’t many baseball games with as many dramatic moments as the one on Tuesday night (March 26) between Cave Creek Cactus Shadows and host Scottsdale Notre Dame Prep.

The last one was the decisive one.

Hunter Bross’ triple into the gap in right-center brought home Duncan Morfitt from first base with the winning run with one out in the bottom of the seventh inning to give Notre Dame a 6-5 victory.

That sequence followed the one in the top of the seventh for Cactus Shadows (5-10) when Cameron Ketchen and Kyle Brown hit back-to-back home runs with two outs to tie it at 5. Brown’s shot came when the Falcons were down to their last strike on a 0-2 pitch.

Notre Dame (16-5), which had lost to Cactus Shadows earlier in the season, turned a 3-2 deficit into a 5-3 lead with three runs in the fifth. The big hit was a two-run triple by Jimmy DiTroia, his second three-bagger of the night.

DiTroia made up for an unfortunate turn of events in the top of the fourth that had him chasing a ball from his spot in center field into the gap in right center and slipping on the grass. That helped Cactus Shadows score a pair of runs.

The early part of the game featured a pitching duel between Notre Dame right-hander Austin Schnabel and Cactus Shadows left-hander Joey Wise.

Both are being heavily scouted by major-league teams in preparation for the annual First-Year Player Draft in June. The scouts were gathered in the stands like paparazzi, only they were using radar guns instead of cameras.

Schnabel pitched 6 innings, giving up three runs on six hits and striking out five with three walks. Wise pitched 4 2/3 innings, giving up five runs on six hits and striking out 11 with three walks.