AUBURN – As early as the second inning, Friday night’s rivalry tilt between Lewiston and Edward Little had the feel of one of those grinding Yankees/Red Sox affairs.

Before it was over, it morphed into a Ken Burns documentary.

Shane Ciriello ended a four-hour, 10-minute epoch with an RBI single in the bottom of the 10th inning to hand Edward Little a 14-13 victory and finally bring some peace and darkness to the Auburn Suburban Little League neighborhood.

“I’m so dead right now,” said Ciriello, whose team trailed by eight runs in the sixth. “When it was 12-4, I thought it was over. I really did. I gave up. But now I know anything can happen at any time.”

With the bases loaded and one out, Lewiston coach Todd Cifelli brought Tucker Bowdoin in from the outfield to give the Blue Devils an extra infielder. Ciriello worked the count to 3-and-1 against Lewiston freshman Corbin Hyde. The senior missed a take sign from coach Darren Hartley and swung at the 3-2 pitch, fouling it back. He then pulled the payoff pitch to right field, well out of the reach of the Devils’ bunched two-man outfield.

“I just knew he was going to throw me a fastball right down the middle, and I had to turn on it because there was nobody in right field,” Ciriello said. “I put my right foot back so I could pull it.”

“Shane told me he was nervous. He said he couldn’t remember the last time he was this nervous,” Hartley said. “I told him, ‘The first good pitch you see, just drive it to the outfield and let’s get out of here.'”

The game saw 32 hits, 23 walks, 26 runners left on, eight pitchers and just one 1-2-3 inning.

Led by the tablesetters Jeff Keene (4-for-7, three runs) and Alex Wong (3-for-5, two RBIs, three runs) and some aggressive baserunning (nine steals), Lewiston (5-5) built a 12-4 lead going into the bottom of the sixth. The Red Eddies (9-1) exploded for nine runs in that frame, tying the game on a three-run double by Cody Goddard (four hits), who scored the go-ahead run on a single by Ryan Arnold (two hits, three RBIs).

“Tonight was a very, very hard lesson for us that walks and errors let teams back in the game,” Cifelli said. “That doesn’t take anything away from the effort EL put in. We try to avoid what we call free bases, and in the sixth inning, if we make one of those plays, we’re probably home hours ago.”

Lewiston bounced back quickly in the seventh when Mekae Hyde led off the inning with a walk against reliever Goddard. Robbie Leeman then grounded out to short, but Hyde, who was running on the pitch, made it all the way to third. Hyde tied it at 13-13 by just barely beating the tag at home plate on a pitch that went to the backstop.

Corbin Hyde delivered the game’s only clean inning in the bottom of the seventh and stifled the Eddies through the next two innings. Goddard worked out of a bases-loaded, two-out jam in the eighth, stranded a runner at third in the ninth and induced a key double play to end the 10th.

“Cody came in, got through that first inning and started to gain command,” Hartley said. “The guys, of course, feel very good about him coming on the mound. He’s just a dominant player for us.”