STANTON – The best season in the history May High School Tigers baseball reached its conclusion Monday one round short of the UIL Class A State Tournament. On a day when little went in favor of the green and white. the Nazareth Swifts earned a third straight trip to Round Rock with wins of 15-0 and 6-5 in the Region I-A championship series.

Despite struggling throughout most of the day, the Tigers (18-7) refused to give up without a fight, scoring four times in their final at-bat in the top of the seventh inning of Game 2 as they had placed the tying and go-ahead runs on base when the game ended.

“Out of all the days to come out and not play good baseball, today wasn’t one we could afford,” said May baseball head coach Chad Dail. “We struggled at the plate and we played very untypical defense. We had more errors in the first game than we probably did the entire season. We couldn’t catch a break to save our lives, the ball definitely didn’t bounce our way today. We didn’t drive the ball until the seventh inning of Game 2 where we got a little rally going, but it just wasn’t enough at the end.”

(story by Derrick Stuckly of Brownwoodnews.com)