Through the first two months and 26 games of the season, Warren Central’s baseball team committed just 32 errors.

That was until the Vikings played Game 1 of their second-round MHSAA Class 6A playoff series Thursday against Northwest Rankin.

Warren Central committed a season-high six errors that led to six unearned runs in a 10-0 loss to the Cougars. Game 2 of the best-of-three series is Friday at 7 p.m. in Flowood.

“It’s just baseball. It’s one of those things that just happens,” Warren Central coach Conner Douglas said. “You can look at the college level. Auburn had six errors the other night and they have SEC players. It’s just baseball. The ball didn’t go our way tonight. We have to get back on it tomorrow. I hate to say it, but the pressure busted our pipes tonight.”

Warren Central committed an error in the first inning and another in the second, but neither led to a run.

Most of the damage came in the fourth inning as the Vikings committed three errors that led to the first three runs of the game.

The worst was a two-out single by Kaleb McBeth that slipped under the glove of WC’s Conner Wilkinson.

The ball rolled to the fence and McBeth wound up circling the bases to give the Cougars a 3-0 lead.

The final nail in Warren Central’s flawed game came in the fifth inning.

Jackson Hailey laid down a sacrifice bunt to pitcher Taft Nesmith, who overthrew to first base. It brought in one run and opened the door for a six-run inning that extended the lead to 9-0.

With a quick turnaround for Game 2, all Douglas could tell his team in preparation for Friday’s game is to just play.

“That’s all I could say,” Douglas said. “There wasn’t many positives to take from tonight. Just turn the page tomorrow, thank the good Lord for letting you wake up and play the game. We’ll bounce back and play like it’s our last one because it can be. We’ve got to win one more to get to the next one.”