Each time the Oak Harbor High School baseball team scored, Mariner responded in a 7-7 nine-inning tie that was called because of darkness Tuesday, March 22, on the Marauders’ field.

The Wildcats scored two runs in the top of the first when Dylan Bailey and Kevyn Johnson walked and scored on Tyler Snavely’s base hit.

Two errors and two walks helped Mariner tie the game in the bottom half of the inning.

Oak Harbor scored twice in the third when Snavely walked, Robert Herring doubled and Avery Aguirre singled.

Mariner (0-2-1) countered with three runs in its half of the third to go ahead 5-4.

In the fifth, James Besaw was hit by a pitch and eventually scored.

Mariner, again, matched the run.

An inning later, Herring walked and scored on Aguirre’s double.

The Marauder’s continued the trend, plating a run to go up 7-6.

Oak Harbor tied the game in the seventh when Besaw walked and worked his way around for the tying run.

Mariner put its first two batters aboard in the bottom of the seventh, but relief pitcher Steven Richards enticed three fly balls to end the threat.

Both teams wiggled out of trouble in the eighth and ninth innings.

“Richards threw five excellent innings,” assistant coach JR Calderwood said. “Preston Rankin played stellar defense.”

Rankin, the Wildcat third baseman, was involved in two double plays, including one that wiped out a Mariner nine-inning threat.

Oak Harbor left 15 runners stranded in the game, Mariner 13.

The Wildcats (0-1-1) play their first home game when the meet Monroe (2-2) at 4 p.m. Friday, March 25.