The Porters Chapel Eagles went to Columbia Academy on Thursday with a chance to close out their first-round MPSA Class AA playoff series.

They came back to Vicksburg with the same chance.

Jonathan Foxworth hit a sacrifice fly in the bottom of the seventh inning Thursday to give Columbia a 7-6 win over PCA and force a decisive third game in the best-of-three series. Game 3 is tonight at 6 at PCA.

Porters Chapel (31-4) walked 10 batters in the game, including one that eventually became the winning run. Columbia’s David Murphy started the Cougars’ seventh-inning rally with a leadoff walk and Josh Price followed with a single.

After a sacrifice bunt and an intentional walk loaded the bases, Foxworth hit a fly ball to center. PCA’s Spencer Pell caught it for the second out of the inning, but his throw home was not in time to get Murphy.

&#8220That’s what happens when you walk people. You get beat,” PCA coach Randy Wright said. &#8220We’ve just got to play better than we did yesterday. We stunk. We just don’t have to stink today.”

PCA took a 1-0 lead in the top of the first, but Columbia’s Ryan Havard hit a grand slam over the short outfield fence to put the Cougars ahead 4-1 in the bottom of the inning.

Brady Towne cut it to 4-2 with a solo homer in the second inning, and Hayden Hales put the Eagles back in front with a three-run homer in the third. Columbia tied it at 5-5 in the bottom of the third, PCA regained the lead with a run in the fifth, and then Columbia scored single runs in the sixth and seventh to win it.

Columbia’s Hunter Farrar (5-4) earned the win despite allowing six hits and seven walks. He went the distance and finished with 10 strikeouts. Towne (1-1) came on in relief in the sixth inning and took the loss.