By CURTIS ROCKWELL/Sports Director

Although the win on Saturday only salvaged the final game of the series for D’Iberville against league-leading Ocean Springs, the decision could turn out to be the biggest of the season so far for the Warriors.

Home-standing D’Iberville snapped an early 2-2 tie with OSHS with three unanswered runs to end the contest and pull out a key 5-2 win in Region 4-7A action. The win leaves the Warriors all alone in third place at 5-4 in the region race entering the final week of the regular season and of league play.

Carter Naron and Caleb West each posted RBI-singles in the fifth frame to break the deadlock and Ayden Demoran added a run-scoring sacrifice fly to seal the deal Saturday after OSHS won the first two games of the series.

Caleb Smith picked up the pitching win with four scoreless innings of relief work for DHS.

Demoran also had a double for the Warriors in the win, while Naron had two hits and two RBIs and both West and Jaylan Johnson added two hits each also.

Adam Clower took the loss for OSHS.

Jeremy Korn had two hits for the Greyhounds and Tristen Fox had a double.

On Friday night, OSHS pulled out a 6-5 win in eight innings at home, after scoring a single run in the seventh to tie things up and one also in the extra session to end it.

Clower tied the game up on a run-scoring sacrifice fly and Cannon Hensarling ended it with an RBI-ground out.

Fox went all eight frames to pick up the win. Demoran took the loss.

Johnson collected two doubles and drove in two runs for DHS, while Demoran also had a two-run double.

D’Iberville faces St. Martin in a three game series this week, and the Yellow Jackets currently sit in fourth place in the Region race after a 13-4 thumping of Biloxi Saturday afternoon and taking tow of of three in that series.

Elsewhere, Biloxi, which along with St. Martin also sits at 4-5 in the league standings, faces Harrison Central this week. The Red Rebels are 3-9 in region play after being swept by Gulfport last week.