VIDALIA, La. &045; The trophy was in the press box waiting for Cathedral, but things got tight there in the last inning.

What was a four-run lead led to some squirming on the Green Wave bench as Crowville just wouldn’t go away. But once CHS head coach Craig Beesley brought in Jeremy Davis in the top of the sixth, the Green Wave held on with a strikeout to take a 6-5 win and finish the Vidalia tournament 3-0.

For that, the trophy belonged to Cathedral. It just came with more drama to CHS head coach Craig Beesley’s liking.

&uot;I was glad to see Jeremy come in there and throw strikes for us,&uot; Beesley said. &uot;I didn’t want to use Jeremy. He said his arm was a little sore, but he could go an inning for us. That’s really what I’m hoping to use him as this year &045; a closer. He really came in and did a good job.&uot;

Had he not got out of the jam, it would have spoiled a nice day at the park Saturday for the Green Wave and a nice weekend as a whole. But on Saturday the Green Wave finally got out of its slump of sorts with 10 hits and no strikeouts with a number of hard-hit ball landing in the outfielders’ gloves.

But in the sixth the Hornets had Matt Strange at third and Dustin Blount at second and the Green Wave holding a one-run lead. Davis, in for relief of Zach Calhoun, closed the door when he got David Kavalir to strike out and Patrick Chapman to fly out to center to end it.

The Hornets scored three runs off starter Garrett Jones and Matt Calhoun after struggling against Jones for most of the game.

&uot;We finally started hitting it to where somebody wasn’t for a change,&uot; Crowville head coach Jimmy Comeaux said. &uot;We had a couple line-drive outs. Some of them were out before they got out of the batter’s box. Hopefully they’ll start falling like they did in the bottom of the sixth. I was proud of the way our kids hung in there and battled hard. They showed a lot of character out there, and I was proud to see that.&uot;

Joey Shipley scored the first run on Justin Castillo’s groundout to third, and Ben Raley doubled in David Phillips to cut the lead to 6-4. Calhoun then came in and walked Matt Strange, and Raley went to third on a balk.

Raley scored on a passed ball, and Dustin Blount walked and went to second on a passed ball that put Strange at third.

That’s when Beesley summoned Davis from the outfield.

&uot;One single, and the game would have been over,&uot; Beesley said. &uot;They had their leadoff batter at the plate. (Zach) couldn’t get in a rhythm. He came in with runners on base and had to work out of the stretch, and he couldn’t get in a rhythm. But Jeremy was wanting the ball at the end, and I was glad to see him come in there.&uot;

The Green Wave hit the ball hard most of the game but had runs to show for it in the first, second and sixth innings. The run in the sixth wound up making the difference as Andrew Ellard singled in Preston Hicks in what was Cathedral’s third hit of the inning.

Hicks reached on a fielder’s choice but went to third on an Andrew Kaiser double, one of three the No. 8-hole hitter had on the day.

&uot;We did swing the bats a little better today,&uot; Beesley said. &uot;The bottom of the order is still carrying us, and I’m pleased with that. I hope we can take advantage when we have runners in scoring position. We left way too many in scoring position tonight. We’re trying to change our lineup around and hope for something good to happen for us.&uot;

The Green Wave got a run in the first off Crowville pitcher Ben Raley when Wyler Murray doubled in Michael Blain.