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The DeKalb County Tiger baseball team claimed a 7-4 win over the Smith County Owls in nine innings in Carthage, Wednesday afternoon, earning a split in their two-game series with their district foe. The Owls topped the Tigers, 5-4, in Smithville on Tuesday.

The Tigers scored two runs in the top of the third inning, but the Owls came back with a run in the bottom of the inning. DeKalb took a 4-1 lead with two more runs in the top of the fourth, but the Owls gradually chipped away the lead with one run in each the fifth, sixth and seventh innings.

Zack Rowland drove in the go-ahead run in the top of the ninth inning, and the Tigers tacked on two more insurance runs to take a three-run lead. Bray Page, who earned the win on the mound for DC, shut down the Owls in the bottom of the ninth, as the Tigers took home the win. Page struck out ten batters, walked four and hit a batter.

The DeKalb County High School Tigerette fast-pitch softball team defeated the Livingston Academy Lady Wildcats for the third time this season, Tuesday afternoon in Livingston. The Tigerettes scored a 5-2 victory over the Lady 'Cats, giving them a regular season sweep against their Livingston rival. The Tigerettes beat the Lady Wildcats, 10-2, back on March 20th in Smithville, and topped them, 11-0, at the Plateau Invitational in Crossville, over the weekend.

The Tigerettes jumped out on top with three runs in the top of the first inning and added one more in the second. DeKalb hit a scoring drought until the seventh inning, when they tacked on one more run. The Lady Wildcats scored their two runs in the bottom of the fourth inning.

Shay Sullivan was the winning Tigerette pitcher, as she worked the full seven innings, allowed two runs on nine hits, struck out five and walked two.

The DeKalb Middle School golf teams won their matches with Coffee County and Westwood, Tuesday at RiverWatch.

The DeKalb County High School Tiger baseball team rallied from a 4-1 fifth inning deficit, Tuesday night, and used a nine-run outburst in the bottom of the fifth to power past Macon County, 12-4, in their second regular season district match-up.

The Tigers scored a run in the bottom of the first inning, and held the 1-0 advantage until Macon tied the game with a run in the top of the third inning. The visitors parlayed an RBI single by Kyle Grace and three DeKalb County errors into a three-run fourth inning, as Macon went on top, 4-1.

DeKalb County blew the game open in the bottom of the fifth, however, using 14 at bats, five base hits and six walks to put up nine runs and take a 10-4 lead. Colt Stewart put the icing on the cake for the Tigers in the bottom of the sixth, as he blasted a two-run home run - his third of the year - which gave DC a 12-4 advantage.