By Myra Bean

The South Panola Lady Tigers played hard against Oxford and walked away with a 10-0 win.

However, it was not enough to secure the district championship for them.

Because South Panola (11-11-1 overall, 5-1 district) and Tupelo (15-4, 5-1) defeated each other by three points, the system had to go to the fourth tiebreaker, according to Lady Tiger head coach Ashleigh Hicks.

The fourth tier is: Point differential allowed in the region games involving the highest ranked or seeded teams, according to the Miss. High School Activities handbook.

South Panola allowed 11 points to regional opponents while Tupelo only allowed nine.

The Tigers now turn their sites to playing Greenville today in a double header play-in games for the playoffs beginning at 4 p.m.

With a win, the first round playoffs will begin Monday at home, times and team to be determined.

SP 10, Oxford 0

Kaitlyn Tidwell went the distance on the mound in five innings for the shutout. She struck out five and allowed two hits. Lena Grace Franklin led at the plate, going 3-for-3 with a double, three RBIs and two runs.

Ali Cummins went 2-for-3 with two doubles, one run and one RBI. KJ Hentz and Makenzie Perkins also had good nights at the plate, going 2-for-3. Perkins had one run. Hentz had a double.

Bailey Russell went 2-for-2 with two RBIs. Layla Davis was the courtesy runner for Hentz,, who is the catcher, and scored two runs. The game was scoreless through the first inning.

The Lady Tigers’ bats heated up and they scored three in the second, two in the third, fourth in the fourth and one in the fifth. They had 11 hits and committed four errors.

Oxford was limited to two hits and committed three errors.

SP 7, Lake Cormorant 5

South Panola had to come from behind and tie Lake Cormorant and was eventually able to hang onto the lead to win 7-5. The game was tied at two going into the top of the fifth.

The Lady Tigers loaded the bases with Molly Seay, Ali Cummins and Hentz.

Addison Hardy singled and drove home Seay for the Tigers’ first lead of the game.

Cummins scored on a Makenzie Perkins ground ball to shortstop to go ahead 4-2.

Layla Davis scored on an error for the 5-2 lead.

Lake Cormorant battled back to within one on a triple RBI and an RBI single with one out.

The Lady Tiger defense hunkered down and kept the two runners on base while getting the last two outs.

South Panola was able to get two more runs in the seventh to make it a little harder on the Gators, who could only scratch one run across in the seventh. Molly Seay hits a bases clearing double driving home Tyler Hamby and Bailey Ware for the final two scores.

Rebekah Cook started on the mound, pitching 5 and 1/3 innings to get the win. She allowed four hits, two walks, four runs and struck out five.

Kaitlyn Tidwell pitched 1 and 1/3 innings in relief and got the save. She allowed one hit, one run and struck out one.