VIDALIA — Vidalia High School’s final home baseball game against Peabody High School Monday night was a game played for its seniors and, in large part, was won by its seniors.

Vikings (11-9, 3-6) first baseman Nathan Knapp turned on an inside pitch with the score tied 2-2, to drive in two runs in the bottom of the sixth inning. lifting Vidalia to a 4-2 win.

Vikings pitcher Chandler Grayson then took care of the rest from there, closing out the final inning of his complete game with a pair of strikeouts. Grayson struck out 13 Viking batters in seven strong innings. He spread out just two hits, one in the first inning and another in the seventh.

“This was one of the big games we had marked on the calendar,” Vidalia coach Kale Davis said. “I had a senior step up with a two-RBI double at the right time.”

Grayson made it easy for Vidalia on defense. The senior starter struck out the side in the second inning to bring his strikeout total to five after facing six batters.

“He’s been doing that all year for us,” Davis said. “If he’s on the mound, we’ll always be in the game.”

Vidalia held a 2-0 lead after two innings but suffered from stranding base runners, throughout the game. The Vikings stranded 12 total base runners and left the bases loaded in back to back innings in the second and third.

In the middle of the sixth inning, Davis gathered his team and delivered a stern message.

“I told them, ‘Somebody needs to step up,’” Davis said. “‘It doesn’t matter if you’re a senior, somebody step up.’”

Knapp did step up, at the end of an 0-for-3 night with a strikeout in the first inning. Grayson told him, before coming to the plate, to jump on his first pitch.

Knapp had to watch three balls before turning on an inside off-speed pitch, sending it, foul into the Vidalia bullpen. Then he got the pitch he wanted.

“I got on top of it and hit it down, but luckily it was a shot down the line.” Knapp said.

Fellow senior Cole Cangemi scored the go-ahead run from third base.

Grayson kept his fastballs low and outside, facing the top of the Peabody batting order in the bottom of the seventh. After a leadoff double, Grayson struck out the No. 2 and No. 3 hitters and induced a groundout to end the game.

“I was just staying low and on the outside corner because they were trying to lift everything,” Grayson said.

Vidalia has two more games remaining this season with one today when the Vikings travel to Franklin Parish.