WALES – For the Oak Hill High School baseball team, coming back twice and ending a two-game losing streak was easy as 3-4-5.

Timing was everything for the brawn of the Raiders’ batting order, which seemed to show up on schedule all of Wednesday afternoon, lastly and most authoritatively in the fateful sixth inning.

Back-to-back doubles by Brett Turcotte and Cody Plourde tied it, and Josh Prue’s two-run blast over the left-field fence provided Oak Hill’s winning margin in a 6-4 Kennebec Valley Athletic Conference victory over Belfast.

Oak Hill’s three big sticks were a combined 8-for-9 with all six RBIs.

“Those guys have been doing it. (Leadoff hitter) Zach Lennett and 3-4-5-6 actually have been hot,” said Oak Hill coach Chad Drouin, including designated hitter Nate Jillson in the discussion. “We started the season the first three games getting the big hits. Maybe today was another spark.”

Reeling from back-to-back losses to Lincoln and Camden Hills, Oak Hill (4-2) ran the risk of another after A.J. Chasse’s two-run, two-out single gave the Lions a 4-3 lead in the top of the fifth.

The Raiders then stranded two runners on base in the fifth after leaving the bags loaded in the first and fourth frames.

“We’re a better team than that,” Turcotte said. “We should be hitting with runners on, especially in scoring position.”

Turcotte put the metal where his mouth was, ripping reliever Eric Peters’ third pitch of the sixth to the gap in left center field for his third hit of the day.

Plourde pounded a 1-0 pitch over the center fielder’s head and to the 441-foot sign, easily plating Turcotte.

Prue, already 2-for-2 with a sacrifice fly and two runs knocked in, promptly lofted a no-doubter into the trees.

“We’ve actually had the lead most of the time,” Prue said of the rare rally. “Defensively we’ve struggled.”

No errors muddled the works Wednesday. And with the exception of spotty control problems, four Oak Hill pitchers held Belfast in check, scattering six hits while striking out seven.

Josh Sirois picked up the victory with four outs of scoreless relief. Ben Rines faced the minimum three hitters in the seventh to secure the save, assisted by a double play in which Belfast’s base runner was called for interference.

Sirois followed Isaiah Mills, who relieved Plourde with a 2-1 deficit and the bases loaded in the second and retired the next eight Lions in order.

“Usually (Mills is) the end of the game. He did a nice job,” Drouin said. “A lot of high school teams you want to get the starter out, and I think we’re the opposite. Our bullpen’s very good. Our pitching depth is good. I’ve known that all along.”

Belfast (1-4) drew three consecutive walks against Plourde to open the game. Jack Davis and Derrick Bernosky scored on Nick Thibideau’s two-out single.

Prue’s fly out pushed home Rines to cut the Raiders’ deficit in half in the bottom of the inning.

Turcotte led off the third with a single before scoring the tying run with the help of two errors, and his RBI single gave Oak Hill its first lead, 3-2, in the fourth.

“We needed this to get us out of our losing streak,” Turcotte said.

Mills’ streak of perfect relief ended with a walk to Cote Ward in the fifth. A fielder’s choice, a hit batsman and a balk set up Chasse’s temporary heroics.

Sirois coaxed Peters into a pop-up to stop the damage, however, and he escaped Davis and Bernosky’s back-to-back singles unharmed in the sixth.