The familiar buzz around the downtown ballpark returned as fans filed into the gates and found their seats. A gaggle of people took to the outfield with “The Major,” a 150-by-78-foot American flag named after the late Maj. Brent Taylor, which the group unfurled for the singing of the national anthem.

And, the Ogden Raptors delighted the home-opener crowd of 3,324 fans to an early 6-0 lead with lefty Bryson Van Sickle not allowing a hit in the first third of the game.

But the visiting Yuba-Sutter High Wheelers — the defending league champions who moved from Davis to Marysville, California, this offseason — scored 14 of the next 15 runs, battered Ogden’s bullpen and went on to win a 34-hit game 14-10 in a 3-hour, 41-minute marathon.

Raptors third baseman Carmine Lane started his five-RBI night with a second-inning single and added a two-RBI single in the third. Lane scored on a wild pitch in the second and Carter Mize pitched in a run-scoring single to put Ogden (3-4) ahead 6-0 through three innings.

Van Sickle, the former Pac-12 pitcher of the year at the University of Utah, allowed two baserunners (an error and a walk) through three innings but had given up nothing well-hit against Yuba-Sutter (6-1).

That changed in the fourth when shortstop Bobby Lada hit a zinger down the third-base line for the High Wheelers; Lane made a great defensive dive at third and threw a rocket across the infield but Lada beat the throw to end the early whispers of a no-hitter.

Yuba-Sutter peppered five more hits across the field in the inning, including an RBI double off the left-center wall from Leyton Barry, and the rally only stopped with the Raptors leading 6-4 when left fielder Connor Bagnieski cut down Parker Caddou at the plate following another single.

A Cole Jordan single, wild pitch and Bagnieski single seemed it might restore order in the bottom of the fourth for a 7-4 score, but that was short-lived. Though Van Sickle finished his start with a rebound fifth inning, the bullpen couldn’t make it stick. Christian Griffin took over in the sixth and gave up a leadoff solo homer to Barry, struck out one and walked two before handing over to Shawn Triplett.

Triplett couldn’t replicate his solid opening appearances from last week even after recording a quick out; a single and another walk set up a two-run Cooper Hext single to give the High Wheelers an 8-7 lead after six innings. A double and two singles in the seventh extended it to 10-7, and a Landon Wallace two-run double in the eighth sparked four more runs for a 14-7 margin.

True Fontenot set up Lane with an RBI single and Lane punched a two-run double in the ninth to get the Raptors to within 14-10. Two walks meant Ogden did get the tying run to the plate but Jordan tapped back to the pitcher to end the game.

Bagnieski and Fontenot each had three hits for Ogden. Triplett took the loss and none of five Raptors pitchers held Yuba-Sutter scoreless.

Jayden Drake got the win, allowing one run on four hits in four relief innings for the High Wheelers. Lada and Adam Juran each had three hits.

The two teams play again at 6:30 p.m. Wednesday.

With the win, Yuba-Sutter pulled into a three-way tie for first place at 6-1 with Idaho Falls and Rocky Mountain. Glacier is one game back of that group at 5-2.