The Prairie Home Panthers baseball team could have packed up its bags after falling behind Smithton 10-2 after three complete innings Tuesday night at Prairie Home.

Instead the Panthers rallied back with six runs in the top-half of the fifth to cut the lead to two at 10-8. Then, after Smithton plated two more runs in the bottom-half of the fifth, Prairie Home tacked on four more runs to tie the game at 12-all.

Unfortunately for the Panthers, they never got any closer in the ballgame as Smithton added two runs in the bottom-half of the sixth and two again in the seventh for a 16-12 victory.

Prairie Home coach Kyle Mason said the boys played a really good “never die” game. “They played hard and came back after a sluggish start,” Mason said. “Credit Smithton, they were a good ball team and are well coached.”

Smithton (SB) 22
Prairie Home 0
Smithton’s softball team scored six runs in the first inning and never looked back, beating the Prairie Home Lady Panthers Tuesday night at Prairie Home by a score of 22-0.

The Lady Tigers led 6-0 after one and 16-0 after two before sending six more runs across in the third to win by the 15-run rule.

Prairie Home coach Kristin Milligan said Smithton has a great ball team and one of the best pitchers they have seen all season. “The girls gave 110 percent,” Milligan said. “That is all I can ask for, although, I wish we could have come out with a better, closer game.”

See Thursday's Boonville Daily News for the rest of the story.