No. 4 seed end season with hard fought effort in first round loss to No. 1 seed Greenland

Barrett pleased with team’s work ethic, focus and effort to make state for 2023

The No. 4 seed Poyen Indians looked to overcome another huge challenge by knocking off a top-seed in the 2023 postseason on the diamond, but unfortunately, the Tribe came up short Thursday—falling to No. 1 seed Greenland Pirates 12-2 in the opening round in the Class 2A state baseball tournament hosted by Greenland High School.

The Tribe’s quest and postseason journey to capture the 2A title sadly came to end Thursday while clinching their spots in the state tournament.

The Tribe hung close in the opening inning—which was a scoreless outing for both teams for the first inning of play. The Pirates sparked in the bottom of the second inning and routed two three runs, then scored two runs in the third and added one in the fourth to take a commanding

6-0 lead. Despite the Tribe held scoreless through the fourth inning, the Poyen sparked in the top of the fifth and sixth innings to score a run apiece—cutting their deficit to a 4-run contest. Poyen trailed Greenland 6-2.

But in the bottom of the sixth, the Pirates built momentum and displayed their biggest inning of the game to score six runs which ended the contest and Greenland went on to the 10-run victory.

Poyen tallied two runs on eight hits in the frame to provide some production of productive offensive execution in the batter’s box. Greenland broke into double-digits with 12 runs on 13 hits to propel their execution.

Karter Felty powered the offense for the Tribe and led the execution with two hits— Austin Webb hammered one hit and drove in the team’s lone RBI for Poyen. Kullen Conner, Hayden Byrd, Landon Crosby, Trenton Russell and Colt Barrett each sparked for a highlight