The Altamont Indians used the power of the long ball, blasting four home runs in a 11-2 win over Okaw Valley in the second semifinal game of the South Central 1A Sectional on Wednesday in Kinmundy. The first long ball would come in the top of the first inning. Before that, a one out double from Dillan Elam and an advancement on a passed ball put Elam 90 feet from home. Nate Stuemke would hit a sacrifice fly to left field to score Elam for a 1-0 Indians lead before a solo home run from Keegan Schultz would put Altamont up 2-0. Okaw Valley was able to match the Indians with a pair of runs to tie the game up at 2-2 to end the first inning. That would be all the scoring the Timberwolves would do in the game. The Indians themselves would be held scoreless across the second, third and fourth innings, but started moving things again late in the game. Kade Milleville reached base on an error to lead off the top of the fifth and Kaden Davis laid down a bunt and also reached base on an error to put runners at first and second. Elam would then send a line drive over the left field fence for a 3-run home run that would break the tie and put the Indians up 5-2 with no outs in the inning. After a walk from Stuemke, two strikeouts and a groundout ended the inning. The Indians picked things back up in the top of the sixth inning with Eli Miller drawing a one out walk and Milleville hitting a double to center to put two runners in scoring position. Davis would then clear the bases, with a home run to left field to tack on three more runs and put Altamont up 8-2. After Okaw Valley went three up, three down in the bottom of the sixth inning, Altamont immediately scored to start the top of the seventh with a leadoff solo home run from Schultz, his second homer of the game, to edge the Indian lead to 9-2. Ethan Robbins singled to reach base before being caught out at second on a fielder’s choice that allowed Clayton Arnold to reach base. With two outs in the inning, E. Miller drew a walk before Milleville singled to centerfield to score Arnold and put Altamont up 10-2. E. Miller would then score on a passed ball as the Altamont lead grew to 11-2. That run would wrap up the Altamont scoring as a pop out ended the inning. After Okaw Valley singled to lead off the inning, the Indians would catch the runner stealing and then get a groundout and strikeout to close out the 11-2 win and earn their spot in the South Central 1A Sectional Championship game. Altamont is 28-9 on the season and will take on NTC rival South Central in the title game at 11:00am on Saturday morning at Lions Field in Kinmundy.