Kosciusko pitchers allowed only five runs in three games, but that was not quite good enough as the Whippets were eliminated from the 4A baseball playoffs by Pontotoc for the second year in a row.
After Jacob Nunn pitched a no hitter Tuesday for a 5-0 Kosciusko win in the first game of the best of three series, Pontotoc won pitchers duels 3-2 and 2-1 Friday and Saturday.
Larson Fancher had the big hit in the 5-0 Kosciusko win, a three-run homer in the third that broke a scoreless tie.
Kosciusko got off to a fast start in the second game, taking a 2-0 lead in the first on a two-run single by Fancher. But the Whippets were blanked the rest of the way and Pontotoc scored single runs in the third, fourth and fifth. The winning run came in on a single by Jabari Farr, who retired the last four Kosciusko batters in relief of Jon Robert Carnes.
Ty Ramage went the distance for Kosciusko, allowing six hits while fanning nine.
All the scoring in the decisive game came in the first inning. The Warriors scored twice in the top of the inning and once again Farr drove in what proved to be the inning run with a one-out single.
Nunn led off the bottom of the inning with a home run, but that was the Whippets’ only run as Corbyn Clayton and Garrett Pound combined on a three hitter.
Landon Wallace pitched the first five innings for Kosciusko, allowing five hits, with eight strikeouts. Fancher finished up with two scoreless innings.
