The Kosciusko baseball team dropped two of three contests last week and wound up third in the Region 4-4A standings.
The top four teams make the playoffs, so the Whippets are postseason bound with action slated to start Friday of this week.
Kosy lost 6-4 to New Hope last Tuesday, won a wild 13-12 contest at West Point on Thursday and lost 13-3 at home to New Hope
on Friday. The Whippets entered this week with a record of 11-10.
They were slated to wrap up the regular season with a trip to Magee on Monday and a home contest against Holmes County on Tuesday.
Friday, Kosciusko will travel to Region 1-4A runner-up Corinth for the first game of a best-of-three, first-round series in the MHSAA Class 4A state playoffs. Game 2 will be at Kosciusko on Saturday with the third-and-if-necessary game to return to Corinth on Monday (April 23).
Last Tuesday at New Hope, the Whippets got a home run and three RBIs from Clark Dean but came up short in their rally attempt.
Kosy scored in the second inning to take the lead, but New Hope got two runs in the fourth and four more in the fifth.
Walker Yuille (single, RBI), Ethan Gowan (single, run scored) and Logan Fancher (single) had the only other hits for Kosciusko. River Burrell and Jon Deason scored once a piece.
Walker Yuille went 4.1 innings and took the loss, combining with Nolen Yuille to strike out five and allow three earned runs.
On Thursday, Kosciusko won a crazy one at West Point.
The Whippets trailed 3-0 after one inning, but a seven-run rally in the top of the third put Kosciusko ahead 9-3. West Point answered with four runs in the bottom of the third and the Green Wave scored three more in the fourth to go up 10-9.
Kosciusko went ahead with three runs in the fifth, only to see West Point tie it with two runs in the bottom of the seventh to send it to extra innings.
Micah Parker was 3-for-5 with a double, five RBIs and two runs scored and Justin Nunn was 3-for-5 with a double, two runs and two RBIs to lead the Kosciusko 16-hit attack.
Chase Morgan was 2-for-3 with a double, two runs and an RBI, while Deason was 2-for-4 with a double, a run and two RBIs.
Fancher singled, doubled and drove in a run, while Walker Yuille also doubled and scored. Gowan and Brandon Black both singled and scored twice; Dean singled and scored.
Nine guys saw mound time for Kosciusko, with Fancher getting the win and Parker earning the save.
On Friday at home, Kosciusko scored three times in the first inning for a brief 3-2 lead. New Hope took the lead for good with three runs in the fourth and broke the game open with six runs in the fifth.
Black and Parker both had two hits and one run scored and Clark singled and drove in two runs for the Whippets. Morgan singled and had one RBI, Walker Yuille singled and Fancher scored once.
Morgan, one of four Kosy pitchers to toe the rubber, took the pitching loss.
