By CURTIS ROCKWELL/Sports Director

BILOXI — Visiting Pearl River Central scored the first two runs of the game and the last two runs also Thursday night against Biloxi.
It was the 16 runs that the Blue Devils gave up in between that proved to be their undoing, however.
Home-standing Biloxi pummeled PRC 16-4 in just five innings to move to 4-2 overall thanks to a big nine run fourth frame. The Blue Devils, who had a five-game win streak snapped, dropped to 7-2 on the young campaign.
After beginning the new season on the diamond with three straight wins, Biloxi was facing a third straight loss when perennial power PRC strolled into the Biloxi Sports Complex.

However, the Blue Devils proved to be just the right elixir to cure the Indian’s recent ailments.

“Really proud of our guys and how they bounced back,” second-year BHS head coach Hawtin Buchanan said. “Obviously we had gone on the road and dropped a couple in a row to two good teams in East Central and Petal, so it was really good to get back home and get back in the win column. Last night was the closest we’ve come all year to playing a complete game in all three phases.”
Robbie Hokamp had two hits, including a double, as he wielded the big tomahawk at the plate for the Indians in the win. Logan Fontenelle cracked a bases-loaded triple that cleared the bases in that big fourth frame eruption.
Judson Byars, Wyatt Pyron, Connor Lofton and Will Parker each drove in a pair of runs apiece in the winning effort for Biloxi.
Pearl River Central actually got off to a quick 2-0 lead in the top of the second stanza off of an RBI-ground out by Blake Gill and another run scored when the Indians misplayed a grounder from Brayden Lee.
But that would be it for the Blue Devils until the game had already been decided.
Biloxi bounced back immediately to tie things up at 2-2 in the bottom of the frame on Lofton’s two-run single.

That was just a brief harbinger of things to come for the Indians, as well as a stretch of 16 unanswered runs as Biloxi took complete command of the contest.
The Indians then took the lead for good with a five run third frame rally, as Pyron posted a two-run triple and Parker registered a two-run single.
Fonttenelle’s big bases-clearing three-run triple was the big blow in the fourth, which also included various balks, hit batters and errors by PRC that aided the Indians’ cause.
Lee and Jacob Johnson each had two hits apiece for the Blue Devils, while Lee and Gill each drove in a pair of runs apiece as well in the loss.
Junior Shawn Miguel Gollott went the five innings distance on the hill for BHS to pick up the win, as he struck out four, allowed eight hits and walked none.
Roman Mitchell, one of a trio of PRC pitchers, took the loss.