Tumwater’s baseball season came to a disappointing end on Saturday in Selah, where the T-Birds lost their first-round state tournament matchup against Port Angeles 6-4 in ten innings.

The game was scoreless through three innings, but the T-Birds took the lead in the bottom of the fourth on a two-run double from Jimmy Womach and an RBI single from Wyatt Chase.

The Roughriders got one back in the fifth and took the lead in the sixth with a three-run inning of their own, and entering the bottom of the seventh, the T-Birds were down to their final three outs.

Cody Lambert reached base with a one-out single, and he eventually scored on a wild pitch to tie things up at four. The eighth and ninth came and went without a run, but Port Angeles scored twice in the top of the 10th to take the lead.

“Their guys made good plays and they played defense really well,” Tumwater coach Lyle Overbay said. “They put pressure on us.”

The T-Birds didn’t help themselves with some uncharacteristic mistakes.

They committed four errors, were picked off three times on the bases, and got called for an obstruction call on a runner who eventually came around to score.

“The breaks just never went our way,” Overbay said. “It doesn’t have to do with their effort and attitude. It’s just kinda the way the ball went for them. And it sucks, because they didn’t deserve that.”

The T-Birds finish their season 18-7 and will say goodbye to ten seniors. The senior class leaves with two state championships in 2022 and 2023 and a district championship this spring.

“These guys never stopped,” Overbay said. “They never complained. They just kept battling. They showed these younger guys that there are no excuses. We’ll find another way. That’s the way we do things around here. They’re gonna learn from it.”