In the span of a few hours Friday, the Porters Chapel Academy Eagles got to experience both the exhilarating thrill of a walk-off victory and the bitter agony of a season-ending defeat.

Jordan Locke’s RBI single in the bottom of the 10th inning gave PCA a 7-6 victory in Game 2 of its playoff series with Sylva-Bay. The teams then turned around and played the finale of the best-of-three series and Sylva-Bay won 14-11 to advance to the second round of the MAIS Class A playoffs and bring PCA’s season to a close.

“I’m not disappointed because that’s the most fight I’ve seen out of a group in a long time,” PCA coach Wade Patrick said. “It’s a rollercoaster. That’s baseball. That’s any season. But to go through it in a six-hour span … I was pleased because last year we had the same situation and had a letdown. This group fought to the end.”

Senior Zac Morgan pitched all 10 innings in Game 2. Even as his pitch count climbed to its final arm-wrenching total of 168, he had a smile on his face on the mound each time he went out.

“Zac just pitched his heart out. You hope to get five (innings) out of him and he gave us 10,” Patrick said.

Another senior, Josh Daffron, came up big as well.

Down to the team’s last strike in the seventh inning of Game 2, Daffron drove a two-run single into left field to tie the game at 6.

Morgan kept it there until the 10th, when PCA finally broke through to win it. Locke’s single to the gap in right center brought in Hunter Lyons with the winning run as the Eagles stayed alive, 7-6.

Sylva-Bay, though, pounced on the Eagles in the early stages of Game 3. It took a 4-0 lead after 2 1/2 innings, then scored six in the fourth to go up 10-3.

PCA fought back to get within three runs, but some errors and baserunning mistakes proved costly over the course of the game and it wasn’t able to come out on top.

“We had more (pitching) left than they did. We just didn’t make enough plays,” Patrick said. “Baserunning, fielding, you name it, we didn’t make enough plays to help us.”