Host Morristown came out swinging the bats Wednesday night against Greeneville in the winners bracket of District Four Boys 9-10 Little League Tournament at McAmis-Sempkowski Field and the result was a 14-4 runrule victory in five innings.

Six of Morristown’s first seven batters had hits and the other walked to highlight a four-run first frame as Morristown advanced to the tourney finals on Thursday.

That will be against Greeneville again after Greeneville went into the losers bracket and outlasted South Jefferson, 15-12, in an elimination game.

Morristown pounded out 16 hits in the victory with Bensyn Murphy getting three to lead the way. River Hurst had a triple and single while Illia Lebedynski and Chandler Shaw both had a pair of safeties. Overall, 11 of Morristown’s 13 players had at least one hit.

Winning pitcher JAack Dalton tossed two shutout innings before being pulled to keep him eligible by the pitch-count rule. He hit the first batter he faced and then struck out five of the next six.

Baylor Murphy came on in the third and had trouble throwing strikes. He walked three and allowed three hits before Bensyn Murphy came on and finished the game without allowing another hit.

Nate Metcalf, Avrum Cook and Rhett Legard all had hits for Greeneville in the third frame.

Layton Crosby, first of three Greeneville hurlers, was the losing pitcher.

Caleb Coleman led off the game with a hit for Morristown and Grayson Winstead added another hit with Coleman thrown out at third on the play. Dalton smacked a double to score the first run, Lebedynski singled and Hurst tripled across two more markers. Hurst scored on a wild pitch.

In the second, Bensyn Murphy had a hit and Mason Crigger added another safety and Cohen Lemons reached on an error to load the sacks. A run scored as Coleman reached on a fielder’s choice before Winstead walked to load the bases again.

A walk, error and a single by Hurst made it 8-0 going to the third.

After Greeneville’s three-run third, Morristown didn’t score in the bottom of the inning. The losers scored an unearned run in the fourth but Morristown got two in its half. Bensyn Murphy, Lemons and Lebedynski all had hits to go along with three bases on balls.

Morristown ended it in the fifth as two walks, an error and hits by Baylor and Bensyn Murphy and Shaw supplied the four markers needed.

Greeneville 15, South Jefferson 12

The second game was filled by big innings.

Both sides were out in order in the first before Greeneville scored five times in the bottom of the second with hits by Metcalf, Morgan Anderson and Cook.

However, South Jefferson scored eight times in the top of the third on five walks and hits by Lucas Gilbeert, Braxton Dennis, Ryder Boyer, Easton Jefferson and Hank Johnson, Greeneville didn’t score in the third and South Jefferson couldn’t get a run after loading the bases in the top of the fourth.

But in the bottom of the inning, Greeneville poured across six more runs despite Cook and Legard having the only hits.

The losers tied it with three in the fifth on three walks and two errors but Greeneville pushed across four in the bottom of the inning to break the 11-11 deadlock.

Winning pitcher Nathaniel Bernard had a hit to score the go-ahead runs. Kase Landers also had a hit and there were four walks.

South Jefferson got the first two runners on before one was picked off third in the sixth. One run scored on a wild pitch but Bernard struck out the final two to put an end to the marathon.

Landers and Cook were the only players in the game with two hits.

Darian Clay was the losing hurler.