MINDEN - Non-league Tuesday prep baseball games traditionally are not low-scoring affairs. Teams often don't throw their top hurlers, instead opting to save them for weekend league games.

That can lead to high-scoring contests and that was exactly what fans at Tuesday's Reed-Douglas tilt got. With both teams holding back their top pitchers, a bevy of little-worked pitchers got a lot of work Tuesday. The result was a 10-9 Douglas win that saw the two teams combine to use 10 pitchers in eight innings.

"That's a typical Tuesday. You never know what's going to happen," Douglas coach John Glover said. "In Northern Nevada, you come to learn to expect anything on Tuesdays. Reed's a good ballclub. We're happy to get out of here with the win."

Douglas (16-6) broke a 9-9 tie with an unearned run in the bottom of the eighth. Reed may as well have gift wrapped the winning score. Tyler Hoelzen drew a leadoff walk for the Tigers, moved to second on a sacrifice bunt, stole third and was allowed to come home when Reed misplayed the pickoff throw and let it roll down the left-field line.

It may have been a non-league loss, but it was still painful for Reed, which made six errors in defeat and blew a six-run lead.

"We should never have been in that situation. We have to play catch. You can't make six errors," Reed coach Jon Foss said. "That's been happening all year, so it is a big-picture problem. It's something we continue to have to address. If we don't make any adjustments it will happen again."

The Raiders got on the scoreboard first with a single unearned run in the top of the second. Derric Williford reached on an error after the Douglas first baseman dropped a throw to start the inning. He circled the sacks after a wild pitch, groundout and RBI single off the bat of Fabian Reza.

The Raiders' 1-0 lead did not stand up long. The Tigers quickly got back into a deadlock when Hoelzen led off the bottom of the inning with a solo homer over the right-field wall.

Reed took a 3-1 edge with two runs in the third. With one out, CJ Maldonado missed a home run by inches. He settled for a triple off the top of the right-field fence and scored on a John Pelino RBI single. Soon after, Duran DiQuarto singled home Pelino.

The East Sparks school stretched its lead to 6-1 with three more runs in the top of the fourth. Dohn Matteoni reached on an error to initiate the rally. Joe Moore followed with a double that put Raiders on second and third. A sacrifice fly by Casey Yocom plated Matteoni. Chris Hawthorne proceeded to draw a walk and CJ Maldonado hit a sky high pop fly that seemed to have eyes. It fell in for a single, scoring Moore.

Hawthorne scored the final run of the inning for Reed. He stole third and raced home when an errant pick-off throw sailed wide into left field.

Douglas had no intentions of getting blown out. The Tigers stayed in contention with two runs of their own in the bottom of the fourth frame. Jeff Crozier reached on an error and Zach McFadden singled to start the Douglas inning. Both came home on a single by Kyle Flagg, cutting the RHS lead to 6-3.

The host school could not keep the momentum. Reed answered with a trio of runs, pushing its lead to six runs, 9-3. Williford singled while Cody Cate and Matteoni ripped back-to-back doubles. Reza capped the fifth-inning scoring parade with a two-run single.

The non-league affair turned into a full-on donnybrook as Douglas touched up Reed reliever Sam Petrie for six runs in its half of the fifth to tie the game at 9-9. Tanner Thomas and Kameron VanWinkle had the key hits for the Tigers in the inning with a two-run homer and two-run triple respectively.

"The fifth inning was huge for us," Glover said. "It felt like we couldn't get anything going before that. But you're only one big inning from getting back in it. You never want to bank on the big inning, but it's nice to get them."

Reed faces a big test this weekend. The Raiders play cross-town rival Spanish Springs in a key three-game High Desert League series. The teams play a single game at Reed Thursday at 3:30 p.m. and a doubleheader Saturday at Spanish Springs that begins at 10 a.m.

"I went and watched them play last weekend," Foss said of the Cougars. "That's one heck of a ballclub. They are playing good baseball. They have three quality starters and they're mentally tough. We've got our hands full."