The Tigers were on top as the teams finished up the suspended game from Tuesday, April 27, but the Panthers rallied for a 9-8 victory in eight innings as the game came to an end.
Immediately following the suspended game, the regularly scheduled contest began. The Tigers started off strong with a 2-0 lead in the second inning. The Panthers came alive in the third inning and tied the game with a two-run double, a squeeze bunt and a fourth run.
Frenship’s Ryland Morin came in late in the third to correct errors and logged four scoreless frames. At the beginning of the fourth inning Coldon Kiser got a double and came home on Barrett Workman’s RBI grounder.
The success was short lived when Permian’s Cooper Golden took down the final 15 Tiger hitters with 6 strikeouts.
The game ended with Permian winnings it’s first ever District Baseball Championship and Frenship taking the number two spot, 3-5.
Now the Tigers have set their sights on preparing for the Bi-District playoff game on Friday, May 7 against El Paso Americas in Fort Stockton, starting with game one at 6:00 p.m.
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