Hickory Crawdads wins home opener, 5-2

April 12, 2012

O-N-E photo by Cody Dalton

The Hickory Crawdads opened play at home for the 20th season in fashion on Thursday.

With two outs in the bottom of the eighth inning and tied 2-2 with Asheville, Crawdads left fielder Jordan Akins singled between first and second base, scoring Rougned Odor to break the tie.

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