CONVOY - Jordan Gibson's two-run single in the bottom of the seventh inning sent his team into a frenzy Monday.

The senior's two-out hit lifted the Knights to a 4-3 victory against Delphos Jefferson, keeping Crestview undefeated in league play and atop the Northwest Conference standings.

"I wouldn't say I was nervous, but my mouth was dry," Gibson said of his walk-off at-bat. "I wasn't nervous but it was definitely a fun game."

Gibson's single was the final piece in a thrilling last inning.

Crestview (12-2, 6-0 NWC) entered the top of the seventh with a 2-0 lead, but a pair of infield hits and a two-out, three-run homer off the bat of Jordan Jettinghoff gave the Wildcats (11-4, 4-2) a surprising and instant lead.

"The game was what we all thought it would be," Jefferson coach Troy Montenery said. "An absolute battle right up until the end."

A pair of infield singles by Ryan Kortokrax and Matt Gerdeman, sandwiched around a strikeout, is how the top-half of the final frame began. And when Taylor Hesseling hit a hard grounder off Kortokrax's leg for a dead-ball out, it put runners on second and first with two outs. Jettinghoff then indulged himself and his team by ripping the first pitch he saw over the fence in center field.

"We're on our way to finishing it out and Jefferson did a nice job of getting kids on base and getting the big hit," Crestview coach Jim Wharton said. "It's just one of those deals where teams have to be resilient."

And resilient the Knights were.

Stephen Semer led off the bottom half of the inning by lifting a high fly ball into left field. Jefferson's outfield misplayed the shot and Semer found himself on second thanks to a two-base error. After a sacrifice attempt came up unsuccessful, Ian Clay laced a single to right to put runners on the corner with one out. Clay then took second on a fielder's indifference before a strikeout brought Crestview to its final at-bat. That's when Gibson took the second pitch he saw and placed it in left field for the game-winning hit.

"Jordan is a gamer," Wharton said. " ... It wasn't a tremendous swing or anything, it was a tremendous at-bat. No question. It doesn't get any bigger than that in a high school game. Just like (Jettinghoff). Just tremendous effort."

And no better effort was on display than on the mound.

Crestview's Nick Ulrey took the win giving up three earned runs on four hits with one walk and four strikeouts in seven innings of work. Mike Rahrig took the loss for Jefferson, despite a brilliant performance.

Rahrig gave up four runs - but only one was earned thanks to three Wildcat errors - on five hits with a hit batter and eight strikeouts. He too pitched the whole game.

Crestview's first run of the game came in the third inning when Tony Springer led off the frame with a double down the third base line. He then advanced to third on a wild pitch and took home when the throw from the plate to third base sailed into left field. The Knights' second run came in sixth when Gibson worked a lead-off walk, advanced to third on a fielder's choice and a wild pitch, and then scored on a high, chop single up the middle by Ulrey.

The walk was Gibson's only positive plate appearance of the game at that point. Until his seventh-inning heroics that is.

"Rahrig made me look bad those first couple of at-bats, he's got a great curveball," Gibson said of striking out his first two times up to the plate. "I got lucky and he actually gave me a fastball on that (game-winning) pitch. I just went with it and I found a gap and it went in it."