Of the 21 innings of baseball that made up the GHSA Class A public school championship series this week in Savannah, one is certain to endure as more memorable than the others.
Top-ranked Gordon Lee will lament the fifth inning of game three on Saturday, when Metter took advantage of a pair of errors to score four runs and take a 6-5 lead. The Trojans then left runners on second and third in the bottom half, and that score held up the rest of the way at Grayson Stadium as the Tigers pulled the upset to win their first state title.
“The fifth inning was the difference,” Gordon Lee coach Mike Dunfee said. “We had some shots both offensively and defensively to make plays and came up short. I’m proud of them, though. They had six tough games within a week and battled to the end.”
Gordon Lee, seeking its fifth state championship overall and third in four years, won the opener against the Tigers 7-4 on Friday before losing the second game of that doubleheader 2-1.
“It was a fun series,” Dunfee said. “We just came up on the wrong end of it.”