For the second time in a week, Kingwood Park clawed back from a big deficit to tie a District 18-5A game late.
Unfortunately for the second time in a week, it resulted in a one-run loss.
Down 8-2 through five innings Tuesday evening, the Panthers rallied for six runs in the sixth to tie the game at Dayton. The Broncos went back up two runs in the bottom of the inning and Kingwood Park recovered just one of those runs back in the seventh in a 10-9 loss.
It was the third straight one-run game for Kingwood Park (8-4, 2-2), which is 2-1 in those games.
Last Tuesday, Kingwood Park managed a five-run comeback to tie Crosby before the Cougars re-took the lead in the sixth.
Dayton (10-6, 4-0), which extended its win streak to five, was propelled by a first-inning grand slam by Itzel Gonzalez, who then struck again in the sixth with a two-run shot. She finished 3-for-4 with six RBIs and three runs.
Allie Minick got Kingwood Park going in the fourth with an RBI single. A Keilee Brown RBI single in the fifth made it 6-2 Broncos.
After Dayton went up 8-2 in the bottom of the inning, Ava Klinefelter started the sixth inning rally with an RBI single. Addi Gomez then drew a bases-loaded walk to cut the deficit in half.
Abbey Papadimitriou followed with a two-run double to score both Klinefelter and Gomez.
Keilee Brown then rocketed a two-run homer, her second homer in the past three games, to tie things up.
Facing a 10-8 deficit in the seventh, Klinefelter hit an RBI single before the final out was secured on a strikeout.
In total, Klinefelter was 3-for-5 with two runs and two RBIs. Papadimitriou was 2-for-4 with two RBIs. Brown was 3-for-4 with three RBIs and Minick was also 3-for-4.
Haylee Seales pitched 5⅔ innings of relief and allowed two earned runs on five hits. She struck out five and walked five.
This was just another chapter in the budding rivalry on the field. Dayton is now 14-10 against Kingwood Park all-time. The teams met three times in 2024 with Dayton winning twice.
Kingwood Park plays host to Porter Friday night.
Kingwood Park’s Keilee Brown, who was 3-for-4 with at two-run homer, tries to beat to out a Dayton runner to third base March 18, 2025. (Chris Zorzi/SportCast Media)
