Watertown Defeats Tigers to Claim District Baseball Tournament Title

May 13, 2021
By: Dwayne Page

The DeKalb County High School Tigers got behind and couldn’t catch up losing 8 to 3 to the Watertown Purple Tigers in the District 8AA Baseball Tournament Championship Game Wednesday evening in Smithville.

The Tigers will travel for the first round of the Region baseball tournament. The time and location TBA.

Watertown took a 2 to 0 lead in the 3rd inning and led 6 to 1 after the 4th inning. The Tigers scored 2 runs in the 5th to cut the Watertown lead to 6 to 3 but the Purple Tigers added 2 insurance runs in the 7th and won 8 to 3.

DeKalb County is 15-11-2 on the season including a regular season 8-2 district record. Watertown is 24-5

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