WINNSBORO, La. &045; Folks may have been talking about it all winter.

Up until Monday’s Catahoula-Vidalia rematch in the Major League sub-district tournament, that’s probably all that anyone wanted to talk about. Both teams had players back from last year’s game in Minor League when Vidalia rallied from an 8-0 deficit in its last at-bat to beat Catahoula 9-8 en route to a trip to the state tournament.

This time, well, Vidalia pulled it off again, just not in dramatic fashion. Vidalia scored four in the first and held on for a 4-3 win to advance to today’s matchup against Madison.

&uot;I’m proud of them,&uot; Vidalia head coach Tam Winston said. &uot;Catahoula came after us. They played us tough. They had signs up over there and didn’t care if they didn’t beat anybody but Vidalia. That makes it a little tough. They’re not going forget, and you can’t blame them. I’d feel the same away.&uot;

Instead this time Vidalia got the runs it needed early and let Jake Winston battle Catahoula’s Davis for the duration. Catahoula put up two runs in the fifth that made things interesting as it put a runner at second with just one out, but Jake Winston got two strikeouts to end the inning.

Jake Winston fanned 12 for the game, including the final two batters of the game.

Vidalia got its four in the first off starter Cody Herrington after Caleb Vines and Jake Winston walked to lead off the inning. Dee Garrison singled in Vines and Devin Barnes singled in Winston for the first two runs, and Corey Williams grounded out to score Garrison.

Barnes scored on a passed ball.

But Davis entered after the second and got all his outs on strikeouts in third three innings of work.

&uot;They brought this Davis kid in who shut us down,&uot; Tam Winston said. &uot;He was throwing hard. He was just flat throwing. After the first inning, we didn’t hit the ball hard at all. I’d be scared to guess how hard he was throwing. I know they can hit him. They’ve hit harder. But they just never seen him before, I guess.&uot;

Franklin 13, East Central 12

RAYVILLE, La. &045; Any more tough luck on East Central’s behalf? How about giving up seven runs in the opposition’s final at-bat to take the loss and get eliminated from the tournament?

That’s what happened to the Pre-Majors, who played well but couldn’t get the breaks at the end.

&uot;We played real good ball game until the last little bit,&uot; EC coach Leo Eliser said. &uot;They had some seeing-eye balls, just some balls hit between first and second and balls that got over third base. We played good ball all the way.

The kids played well. They really did. They came with their heads up, but it was just the breaks of baseball. Changing pitchers didn’t help. They just dinged the ball. Congratulations to them.&uot;

Lance Moore was solid in relief until some balls started to find the hole in the sixth inning, and East Central brought in Shayne Knapp in relief. Knapp struck out two but yielded a ground ball through the infield that got the winning run home.

East Central jumped on Franklin starter Caleb Haring early and took a 3-1 lead, but Haring answered in the third when his grand slam put Franklin up 5-3.

Moore, Trey Corbett and Gary Evans had doubles for East Central. Corbett came up with a squeeze bunt that brought home two runs.

Winnsboro 6, Ferriday 5

JONESVILLE, La. &045; Just when things looked up for Ferriday in a tight ball game, Winnsboro struck back in the worst way &045; a walk-off double that scored the winning run.

Monnin’s double with one out to score Lively for the one-run win to advance at the Minor League sub-district tournament and send Ferriday into the losers’ bracket. Ferriday will play South Franklin at 6 p.m. today.

Ferriday trailed 5-3 in its last at-bat but scored two runs to tie it up. Garrett Vinson and Layton Poole walked with one out, and Roper Craft singled to load the bases.

Jared Hedrick lined a double to score Vinson and Poole and move Craft to third base, but Winnsboro got two strikeouts to end the inning and the leave the runners stranded.