The no-hitter was broken up in the fifth by a bouncing ball off the bat of Cameron Parker that made its way into left field for a single.

“We worked on that all week,” ForsanHead Coach Jason Phillips said. “We kept telling the boys that they where going to have to be patient and wait on the pitch. I don’t know what it is we do fine against a fastball pitcher but a curve baller gives us fits.”

After Castillo retired the Buffs in the top of the first, it looked like the Eagles were going to hit the scoreboard after a hard hit ball by Eric Ramirez glanced off the glove of Forsan center fielder Adam Bailey, placing a runner at second with only one out.     

The Buffs' defense, as it did again and again throughout the game, responded as Cameron Parker induced a ground ball to shortstop Jeremy Robbins who threw to first for the second out. However, the Eagles decided to be aggressive and first baseman Evan Burton made them pay firing a bullet to third, nabbing Ramirez to end the inning.

“I thought that we played really well defensively,” Phillips said. “We had a couple of errors that hurt us, but over all we did a good job in the field.”

After a hit batsman loaded the bases for the second time in the second inning, the Eagles finally broke through, scoring a run on one of two straight ground balls to short.

O’Donnell extended the lead in the third and again it was Ramirez in the middle of things as the second baseman singled over the outstretched glove of third baseman Ryan Flores and scored when Tanner Hancock found the gap in right center for a double and the RBI.

Things stayed that way until the fifth when the Eagles collected a single, a couple base-on-balls and a Forsan error, scoring two insurance runs.

Castillo, who until this point had continually kept the Buffs guessing at the plate with a mixture of offspeed pitches, showed some signs of cracking in the fifth with Robbins and Parker on first and second with no outs in the inning. However, he forced a fly out, a fielder's choice and recorded a strikeout, ending the Buffs' biggest threat.

Forsan mounted one last rally in the seventh getting two runners on before Robbins lined to left for the final out of the game.

“You know our bats killed us today.” Phillips commented. “We just couldn’t put the bat on the ball. You have to give it to their pitcher; he did a good job keeping us off balanced.”

With the loss Forsan drops to 12-7 on the year and falls one game short of last year’s performance — a place that Phillips looks to visit again in the near future.

“We have a big eighth-grade class coming in so we are excited about that,” Phillips said. “We are losing three seniors and we are hoping that some of the freshmen are able to help and fill some of the holes that they are leaving.

“It’s been great,” an emotional Bailey said after his last game as a Buffalo. “I am going to miss these guys but they are going to be great next year.”

Parker finishes off his stint as a Buff taking the hard luck loss and moving to 7-2 on the year, giving up five hits and four walks.

“Cameron did a great job for us today,” Phillips said. “He battled all day. He isn’t the kind of pitcher that gets a lot of strikeouts. He just puts the ball in play and relies on his defense and that is what he did today.”