Scoring runs in their last three at bats changed a one-run lead to an 8-3 win for the Carbon Monarchs over the Northern Valley Chargers in a Lehigh Valley Legion game Tuesday.

Carbon jumped out to a 4-0 lead in the first inning. Garrett Lienhard led off with a single to left field. Aiden Rarick followed with a base hit and his brother, Ian walked to load the bases with no outs. After Lienhard scored on a throwing error, Randy Bongioino was safe on an RBI fielder’s choice and Richie Strack and Jack Edwards drove in runs with infield outs.

Monarch’s starting pitcher, Matt Craigie worked out of jams in the first and third innings, but he allowed only one run on an infield hit by Wesley George who drove in Sam Mauro. Mauro had been hit by a pitch and came around to score after a stolen base.

Northern Valley starting pitcher Nick Bogert settled down after a rough first inning, retiring eight of the next nine Carbon hitters.

“Nick has been our main guy on the mound,” said Chargers head coach, Brad Rauch. “He gives us good, solid innings and throws a lot of ground-ball outs.”

The Chargers climbed back into the game with a two-run, two-out, fourth-inning rally. Bogert and Evan Druckenmiller led off with singles and after a ground out and a fly out. Andrew Diehl knocked in a run. Cole Hausman walked in a run and Druckenmiller scored on a wild pitch.

Ahead 4-3 going into the top of the fifth, Michael Yeakel singled to right for Carbon and stole second. Lienhard belted a double to left, driving in Yeakel and in the sixth, the visitors added a sixth run on double to left center by Evan Murphy driving in Nick Schwartz, who led off the inning with a base hit to left.

Lienhard had a big day at the plate for Carbon, going 3-4 with a single, double, and triple.

“I’ve been sitting back and keeping my weight longer on my back leg,” he said. “I’ve also been keeping my bottom hand from flying out away from my body so I’ve been hitting much better lately.”

In the seventh, the Monarchs put up two more runs on an RBI groundout by Schwartz and a run-scoring single by Strack.

The Chargers left 11 men on base, prompting Rauch to shake his head for another game that lacked his team’s clutch hitting.

“It seems like we’ve left 111 men on base this season,” he said. “We seem to struggle early in games and we have to fight from behind. That’s why we try to steal bases to get runners into scoring position, but we’re very young and the big hits haven’t been coming for us yet.”

Monarchs head coach Joe Marykwas was pleased with his team’s overall effort.

“We ran the bases well,” he said, “and we hit pretty solid from top to bottom. Mattie struggled a bit, but he got himself out of some tough spots and Nick Schwartz did a great job in relief.”

With the win, Carbon improved to 8-6 and Northern Valley fell to 6-6-2.

Northern Valley registered the third out in the top of the sixth inning when a fly ball bounced out of the glove of left fielder Zach Russo and into the glove of center fielder Andrew Diehl, who had circled behind Russo and was secured the catch before ball hit the ground.

Carbon stifled a Chargers’ third inning rally on a brilliant double play started by Aiden Rarick, who caught a fly ball in right field and threw home on an attempted tag from third. Catcher Michael Yeakel went up the third-base line to catch the throw and reached out to tag the runner, who was trying to score.

In the Carbon fifth, Garrett Lienhard hit a ball to deep left field that appeared to go over the fence. The play was initially ruled a home run, but after an umpire conference, the call was changed to a ground-rule double.

Northern Valley beat Salisbury Monday, 5-1, in a five-inning game that was the second part of a doubleheader of sorts.

Cole Hausman and Wes George both went 3-for-3 in the game. George drove in a pair of runs, while Hausman drove in one and scored one. Evan Druckenmiller was 2-for-3 in the win.

Morgan LaBuda pitched all five innings, allowing four hits and one run while striking out two batters.

The two teams also finished off a suspended game Monday with the Falcons winning 5-3. Nick Scott went 2-for-4 for Northern Valley in that game.