Garnet Garage's Mike Saari connects for a hit Thursday in a game against REL-Mohawk Technologies at John Bostwick Memorial Field in Houghton. (Eddie O’Neill/For the Gazette)

HOUGHTON — There is a reason that Garnet Garage sits atop the Copper Country Twilight League at 6-1. In short, they are tough to beat on both sides of the diamond – in the field and at the plate. The proved that again on Thursday with a 5-4 comeback win over REL-Mohawk Technologies. Fittingly, they won it in dramatic walk-off fashion.

With the game tied at four and two outs, Gaborik Carlson belted a double to deep left field for Garnet Garage. He didn’t stay there long as first baseman Chris Saari brought him home with ease a batter later with a single to right.

“We find ways to win,” noted Garnet’s player-coach Kevin Bostwick. “Game ball goes to Chris, who had a nice piece of hitting there at the end.”

Before the seventh-inning dramatics, there were a couple of lead changes. Garnet took a 1-0 lead in the first with pitcher Kade Farrell crossing home after getting a base hit.

REL (1-5) tied it up in the third with a run of their own and went ahead by two in the fourth with Dean Jurmu and Sam Kilpela both scoring. They now led 3-1.

However Garnet Garage was not done. They tied it at three with two runs of their own in the fifth. Swinging a hot bat that inning were Jackson VonDoloski and Brandon Norkel, who both had singles and scored courtesy of a Farrell base hit.

Garnet then took a 4-3 lead in the bottom of the sixth, and were just three outs away from a win, but REL did not allow that to happen. With two outs they scored and stayed alive at 4-4.

Then came the deadly one-two punch of Carlson and Saari for the 5-4 Garnet win in the bottom of the seventh.

Farrell earned the complete-game win striking out six along the way. Alan Jurmu took the loss for REL.