Down five runs in the bottom of the seventh, a comeback win seemed improbable for Warren Central.

Improbable, but not impossible.

Megan McCullough’s tying two-run double with two outs set up Karley Hinson’s game-winning hit as WC rallied for a 10-9 win over Terry Monday night at Lucy Young Field.

“Definitely the biggest comeback in the final inning,” WC coach Dana McGivney said. “We had a really good inning. The girls had that little bit of belief that they could do it. They never gave up. It’s hard to come back from three runs down let alone five. We were down five got it back to three and then it was five again.”

Because McCullough’s hit tied the game, some of the pressure was off of Hinson, but she paid no mind to it.

“I kept my mind off that,” Hinson said.

She responded with a clean single up the middle against Terry pitcher Haley Lovett. It was the eighth hit of the inning and 15th overall for the Lady Vikes.

Lovett and the Lady Bulldogs had control of the game after Kaci Lantrip blasted a solo homer to left-center for a 7-2 lead in the fourth inning. Lovett retired eight straight batters at one point to take the five-run lead into the bottom of the sixth inning.

The Lady Vikes (8-4) mixed two line drive hits with a pair of bunts to scratch home two runs and pull within 7-4. The inning ended with Lovett fanning Hinson.

Lovett helped her cause with a two-out, two-run double in the seventh to give Terry what seemed to be plenty of insurance at 9-4, but things quickly unraveled in the bottom of the inning.

Alexis Patterson and Katie Busby both singled and moved up a base on Krista Cortezie’s sacrifice.

Kendall Parker singled to left to score Patterson. Chasity Hearn took advantage of an overshift by the Terry defense and took a ball to an empty right field. Busby and Parker scored easily, but the Lady Bulldogs managed to relay the ball quick enough to get Hearn at third base for the second out.

McGivney wasn’t upset about the play.

“Yeah, we should’ve held her up, but that’s OK, she got the two runs in and she did her job,” McGivney said.

Still, WC was down 9-7 with no one on and two outs. That changed when Lawren Boolos singled for the third time in the game and Chelsea Worley followed with another base hit. That put two on for McCullough, who ripped a double into left to tie the game at 9.

“We knew we could do it,” McCullough said. “We worked together as a team.”

McCullough finished with two hits, three RBIs and two runs scored, which included the game-winner. Parker had two hits and two RBIs.

Worley got the win in relief of herself. She started the game, went two innings, and then went to left field with a 4-2 deficit. McCullough pitched the next two innings but walked three, hit two batters and gave up the solo homer to Lantrip. Worley came back to pitch two scoreless innings.