The North East Indians baseball team (North East, MD), was tipped 4-3 in Friday's non-league outing with the host Fallston Cougars (Fallston, MD)

The Cougars now hold a 11-7 record. They put it on the line next when they travel to Rising Sun for a non-league outing on Monday, May 11. Fallston will confront a Tigers team coming off a 8-4 non-league win over Perryville (Perryville, MD). The Tigers record now stands at 14-4.

Fallston defeated North East 4-3 in a tightly contested first round playoff matchup in Fallston Friday afternoon. Fallston jumped out to an early 2-0 lead scoring single runs in the 1st and 2nd. North East capitalized on a defensive miscue by Fallston in the 3rd to scored 3 times and take a 3-2 lead. Jared Perry and Jake Brelesky each had RBI singles for the Cougars in the bottom of the 6th to put them back on top 4-3. North East got a walk and a double to lead off the 7th and chase Fallston started Harrison Schumaker. Scott Dettloff entered the game with no outs and runners on 2nd and 3rd. Dettloff got a fly out to shallow left for the 1st out of the inning. Dettloff than walked the next North East hitter before inducing a game ending 6-4-3 double play to secure the victory. Fallston starter Harrison Schumaker went 6 strong innings scattering 6 hits and walking one while striking out 4 and allowing 0 earned runs to earn the win. Jared Perry finished 3 for 4 at the plate.