It was a tough week for the Durant High School baseball team against a rugged slate of competition as they came up short in all four contests.
The Lions fell to Coweta, 6-4 and 9-4, in a district series before suffering an 10-0 loss to Jenks and 11-3 setback to Broken Arrow in a festival loaded with Class 6A foes as their season record slipped to 11-11.
After getting back into district play this week facing McAlester, Coach Jimmie Wyrick’s club will visit McAlester for the Annual 5A Shootout this weekend where they will battle Collinsville, Carl Albert and Claremore.
Durant held a 2-1 lead through five innings in the Coweta opener thanks to RBI singles from Graham McIlvoy and Elijah McClure but were unable to hold that edge. The Tigers scored three times in the sixth and twice in the seventh and a late Lion rally fell short in the bottom of the final frame.
The Lions finished the contest with 10 hits, all of which were singles, as Jared Avalos, Holdan Robinson and McClure posted two apiece. McIlvoy, Maddox Arnold, Colton Poore and Jacob Jones notched one hit each.
Coweta jumped out to a 4-0 advantage in the second meeting before watching the Lions rally to tie it up.
A three-run fourth stanza got the rally going keyed by doubles from Jackson Williams and Cole Robbins. Jacob Jones also added an RBI single.
Lucas McClure provided the biggest hit in the sixth on a two-out run-scoring double but the comeback was thwarted by three DHS errors in the bottom of the frame which led to five Coweta runs that put it away.
It was definitely tough sledding in the Jenks loss as Durant managed only one hit with an Arnold single in the fiveinning run rule defeat.
An early blitz by Broken Arrow left the Lions in a 9-0 deficit through three innings before they finally tallied three runs in the fourth.
Robinson drew a walk and McIlvoy singled to get things started and it was two-out hits by Jones and Robbins which plated the runs.
Robbins finished with two of the five Durant hits for the day.
