The West Virginia Miners pounded out 13 hits as they defeated the Lorain County Ironmen Wednesday night, 10-4 in eight innings.

The Ironmen grab the lead early in the top of the fourth inning before the rain started falling, but the Miners got to the Ironmen starter Aaron Hilt (Ashland) in the bottom of the inning scoring three runs, with the big blow being a two-run homerun from catcher Chris Kay (Virginia Tech).

Lorain County kept battling back and scored three more runs, but came up short after the game was called by rain in the middle of the eighth inning. Amherst's Evan Melendez (Ashland) scored two runs, Billy Urban (St. Bonaventure) had two RBIs. Also scoring for the Ironmen were Admiral King's J.T. Feldkamp (Ohio Dominican) and Tony Brunetti (Rollins College). Westlake's Matt McAllester (Ashland) stole another two bases pushes his Prospect League leading total to eight.

Hilt (0-2) gave up five runs and took the loss. He was relieved by Nate Antone (Potomac State), who struck out two but gave up three runs. Avon's Phil Brua (Oberlin) relieved and didn’t fare any better in the wet conditions, giving up two runs while hitting three batters.

The Ironmen, who dropped to 3-4, will be back in action at 6:35 Thursday night as the finish their road trip in Butler, PA.