Chattanooga 9-hole hitter Shannon Wilkerson went 3-for-3 with two RBIs and two runs scored Sunday night to lead the Lookouts to a 7-3 win at Montgomery in the third game of the Southern League’s North Division playoffs.
The Lookouts lead the Biscuits 2-1 and can take the best-of-five series with another road win tonight. Should Montgomery prevail this evening, the two teams would play a deciding game Wednesday night at Riverwalk Stadium.
Adam Walker, who set a Lookouts franchise mark with 31 home runs during the regular season, homered to left field in the second inning to put the Lookouts up 2-0. They increased their advantage to 4-0 in the third, when Wilkerson and Stephen Wickens had leadoff singles and came around to score.
Greg Peavey picked up the win for the Lookouts, allowing five hits in six scoreless innings while striking out five.
Wilkerson scored a second run in the seventh, when he reached on catcher’s interference, took third on a Wickens single to right and scored on Jorge Polanco’s sacrifice to right. That gave the Lookouts a 5-0 lead, but it was trimmed later in the seventh on Cameron Seitzer’s three-run homer.