Hinds Community College’s dreams of a trip to the NJCAA Division II baseball World Series died a quick death in Eunice, La.

Trenton Lee and Derek Eberly delivered back-to-back, two-run singles in the eighth inning Thursday as Pearl River Community College rallied to beat Hinds 8-4 in an elimination game at the NJCAA Region 23 Tournament.

Pearl River (38-10) rallied from a 4-0 deficit in the seventh inning and advanced to play either LSU-Eunice of Itawamba Community College in another elimination game Friday at noon.

Region 23 includes junior colleges in Mississippi and Louisiana. Five of the six teams in the tournament — Hinds, Pearl River, Itawamba, Meridian Community College and Mississippi Gulf Coast — are from Mississippi.

Hinds finished its season with a 28-21 record and two consecutive losses at the Region 23 Tournament, the second level of the junior college baseball postseason. Hinds, which was the No. 6 seed in the tournament, lost 10-0 to top-seeded LSU-Eunice on Wednesday night.

Things started off well for the Eagles on Thursday. Carson Klepzig put them on the board with a sacrifice fly in the fourth inning, and back-to-back RBI singles by Jovante Dorris and Andrew Beesley in the fifth gave them a 3-1 lead.

Caleb Danzy hit a sacrifice fly in the fifth to make it 4-1.

Pearl River, however, rallied for seven runs in its last three at-bats to steal the win and stay alive. Wiley Cleland started the comeback with a two-run home run in the bottom of the sixth inning, and Eberly hit an RBI single in the seventh to tie it.

A walk and two errors in the eighth loaded the bases for the Wildcats, and Lee made Hinds pay for the mistakes with a two-run single that gave Pearl River its first lead of the game. Eberly followed with his two-run single to left field that make it 8-4.

Hinds got a runner on base in the top of the ninth, as Beesley hit a two-out double, but Danzy lined out to end the game.

Beesley finished 3-for-5 with a double, one RBI and one run scored for Hinds, and Luke Clement had two hits.

For Pearl River, Eberly was 3-for-5 with three RBIs, Matt Taylor scored two runs and Cleland was 1-for-3 with two RBIs and two runs scored.

Drake Nightengale pitched 4 1/3 innings of scoreless relief for the Wildcats to earn the win. He allowed two hits, only walked one batter and struck out six.

Hinds used five pitchers in the game. The fourth in line, Jase Dalton, took the loss after allowing four runs — none earned — three hits and two walks in 1 1/3 innings out of the bullpen.