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Houston County Outasss Pope in the post-season night season fight in the third episode

In an annual post-season tradition of Georgia High School Baseball, the Houston County bears stood in the season of the third consequences against Pope Greyhounds. Only this time there was a new result in favor of the bears in class 5A quarter-finals of the GHSA Baseball State Championships. .

Houston County ended Pope series to make it to nine baseball final when the bears swept the Greyhounds on Wednesday evening in two games in two games and in game 1 with 6: 4 and 4: 2 in the second game reached the bears for the semi-finals.

Pope's victory of the bears received his first loss since the end of February and won 25 games for greyhounds.

Houston County was based on heroic deeds by Logan Eble's, who had a Homerun with two runs with every win, together with several goals from players. Senior Outfield Kendall Jackson scored three goals and Senior First Baseme will add all two goals. The seniors Noah Odom and Ethan Buffone each had an RBI in the series.

While Houston County is mainly a team of the luxury class, in the first game of the series in the second year, Isaiah Galason had a Homer with two runs, which gained important playoff experience at a big moment.

Everyone was also in the second game of the series for the bears and threw a complete game for Houston County with three strikes.

Senior Max Wilhide threw 5 ⅔ Innings and only allowed one goal with four strikeouts in game two.

Houston County improved to 31-5 after the victories against Pope (31-5).

In the last two seasons it was Houston County who ended her seasons against Pope, but in 2025 the bears kept a stopover because they were able to advance to their second final four in three seasons.

After the series victory against Pope, Houston County is two series from the Fifth GHSA Baseball State Championship of the program after ending one of the longest final fours in the late season history of the GHSA Baseball for the Greyhounds.

Houston County will now compete on the street against Loganville on Tuesday at 4:30 p.m., with a possible game three of the series glued to the first pitch on the first pitch the following day at 5 p.m.

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