Late rallies by the Durant Lions took perennial power Pryor to the wire and beyond last week before they suffered narrow district baseball losses to even their record at 2-2.
The Lions scored twice in the final two stanzas to knot the home contest, but Pryor finally broke through in the 11th to break the deadlock and notch a 10-7 victory.
While the game at Pryor was much lower scoring, the scenario was close to the same with Durant scoring in the sixth frame to tie the game but watched the Tigers plate a run in the bottom of the seventh to win 3-2.
Coach J.W. Parsons’ squad will be back home on Monday for another pivotal district matchup with Claremore and the league-leading Zebras.
In the Pryor opener, it went back and forth through the first three stanzas with the squads battling nearly dead even as each scored at least once in each frame.
Durant’s initial run in the first came across following four straight singles from Aiden Diviney, Jared Avalos, Lucas McClure and Elijah Mc-Clure. Colton Poore’s home run tacked on two more in the second frame while Ryder Jones chipped in the key hit in the third with a two-out RBI single.
The Tigers went back in front 7-5 in the sixth when the Durant comeback began in earnest. Jones singled and Diviney doubled to fuel the first run with Holdan Robinson’s solo homer tying it in the seventh but that proved to be the final Lion tally.
Durant finished with 14 hits led by three from Jones. Diviney, Avalos, Lucas McClure and Robinson all had two hits. Elijah McClure, Cole Robbins and Poore tossed in one apiece.
Reid Thompson, Jackson Williams and Robinson combined in the 11-inning pitching effort with Williams firing four no-hit frames in the middle frames.
Robbins got the start on the mound in the second contest, going the distance while yielding only one earned run on six hits with five strikeouts and four walks.
The Lions snagged the initial lead on a two-out RBI single by Elijah McClure in the first stanza but Pryor answered with a pair of unearned runs after a single, hit batter and two-out error.
Neither team scored again until the sixth when Durant scratched across a run when Lucas McClure singled and scored on a double by Robbins.
The Tigers plated the game winner in the bottom of the seventh, cashing in an error, single, walk and passed ball.
Elijah McClure notched two of the five Durant hits. Diviney, Lucas McClure and Robbins contributed one apiece.
