Trailing by a run going into the bottom of the sixth inning Thursday, East Union’s Blake Mount and Kirk Simoni rapped a pair of singles that yielded three runs as part of a seven-run frame on the way to a 13-7 win over visiting Sierra at Agostini Field in Valley Oak League baseball action.

This gave the Lancers a three-game sweep of the Timberwolves this week.

“This game got a little wild,” East Union coach Dan Bauer said. “It was a good back-and-forth ball game, for the most part. It was kind of fun to watch both teams battle and grind.

“Sierra has a good team, I think we just caught them at a good time of the year for us. They’re going to come around. We just have to play more consistent catch and not let things get away from us, but I love how we battled back and figured it out.”

Back-to-back, one-out walks by Jackson Fay and Carson Sanders gave the Lancers (3-0 VOL, 11-3 overall) runners at first and second in the sixth. Mount (2 for 4, RBI, three runs) rapped a two-strike offering to plate Fay and advanced to second on the throw to try to get Sanders at third.

“I had a two-strike count,” Mount said. “He gave me a pitch that wasn’t in the zone but it was close enough to swing at and I knew that’s what we needed to get going.”

Simoni (2 for 3, three RBI, three runs) followed that with a single that scored Sanders and Mount for the last East Union hit of the inning. The Lancers ended the frame with six more walks.

“I was just looking for something to help my team out in any way possible,” Simoni said. “I was looking for something to get in the air so we could tag up, but I got a pitch in the zone and I hit it up the middle for those two runs.”

The big inning of the game for Sierra (0-3, 7-6) was a three-run fifth with a two-run single by Jacob Morrow (3 for 4, two RBI), scoring Travis Boyd (two runs) and Collins Schluer (double, three runs). A single by Nikko Camerena and a pair of walks to Ryan McIntyre and Andruw Navarro loaded the bases, forcing a pitching change by Bauer who brought in Ryan Guibor.

Guibor walked Rudy Barney to plate Camerena before notching a strikeout to end the inning with the bases loaded.

“That was big by Ryan (Guibor),” Bauer said. “I know he was pretty nervous.

“He put in a lot of work in the off-season and I keep telling him to be ready and he came in and got that strikeout. That was big for us.”

In addition to those sixth-inning hits by Mount and Simoni, East Union tallied just three more hits with one more each by Mount and Simoni and a two-RBI double by Joe Alvarez (double, three RBI).

“We gave them 17 walks, errors or hit by pitches combined today,” Timberwolves coach Travis Thomson said. “That’s going to be hard to win ball games when you are letting 17 base runners on base, and that is an absurd number.

“Baseball isn’t rocket science. Just throw strikes, play defense, and get the ball in play — we just didn’t do that this week. Hopefully, next week we can kick it back in gear and have three wins to get back to 3-3 in league.”

Sierra begins its three-game series with Kimball on Monday, while East Union travels across town to Manteca.