Well, give it to the Hickory Crawdads, they are relentless. After suffering some tough losses the last few days where they rallied but came up short, the 'Dads finally rallied for a 7-5 win over the Delmarva Shorebirds 7-5 on Thursday night. The Shorebirds (14-12, 46-50) raced to an early lead with two runs in the top of the first against Hickory starter RHP Braden Tullis. With one out in the frame, Omar Casamayor singled to right field and then Tyler Townsend smashed a two-run home run to left-center field, putting Delmarva up, 2-0. The Crawdads used a four-run second inning to take the lead though. Facing Shorebirds starter RHP Jesse Beal, Zach Zaneski started the inning by reaching on an infield single and scored on a monster homer by DiFazio. One out later, Guillermo Pimentel singled up the middle and advanced to second on a ground-out. Adair then drove sliced an RBI single to center. Joe Bonadonna then lined a single to right field that was bobbled by Brian Conley, allowing Adair to score from first and put the 'Dads in front 4-2. Hickory added another run in the third frame on an RBI single by Pimentel, plating Zaneski from third to go ahead, 5-2, before the Shorebirds began to start a rally. Delmarva scored a run in the fourth inning when Townsend led off with a triple that bounced off the top of the center field wall and back into play. He then came in to score on a sacrifice fly by Kieron Pope. Then, in the fifth, the Shorebirds knotted the game at 5 when Conley hit a two-run homer. With the game tied at 5,  Jared  Bolden got the bottom of the eighth inning going for the Crawdads (15-12, 55-42) with a lead-off double to left field. After Bolden tagged up and advanced to third base on a fly-out by C Zach Zaneski, DH Vinny DiFazio was intentionally walked to put runners on the corners with one out. Cody Podraza followed with a sacrifice bunt back to Delmarva reliever RHP Brian Parker (1-1, 3.18 ERA), who threw wildly to first, allowing Bolden to score with DiFazio reaching third and Podraza stopping at second. Guillermo Pimentel then laced a single to center field, plating DiFazio from third to put Hickory ahead by the eventual final score of 7-5. Joseph Ortiz (2-1, 1.42 ERA) came on in relief  pitched 3.2 hit-less innings, allowing just one walk while striking out eight to pick up the win for the Crawdads. Tyler Tufts recorded the final out of the ninth to notch the save for the 'Dads, meanwhile Parker was saddled with the loss for the Shorebirds. On the offensive side, Travis Adair extended his team-leading hitting streak to 14 games and Jared Prince pushed his streak to 11 straight.