After struggling through a tough regular season, the Peebles Indians baseball squad looked to turn things around in the postseason as they opened Division VI district tournament play on May 22 with a familiar foe, a trip across county lines to face the Eastern Brown Warriors. The Indians came into the contest as the #11 seed with the Warriors at #6, plus Eastern holding two regular season victories over the Indians.

Though for once it wasn’t raining, it was a chilly and windy day in Macon as the two teams began their tourney play, with a match up of right handers, Peebles’ Bradley Shoemaker and Eastern’s Pryce Murphy. One bad inning would haunt Shoemaker while Murphy pitched a complete game gem and the Warriors advanced with a 5-1 victory.

The Indians didn’t get too many scoring threats

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