Things didn’t end well for high school baseball at historic Griffith Stadium as the Minden Crimson Tide dropped a Saturday double header to the Iota Bulldogs, ending the Tide’s state playoff run.

Iota, the number nine seed in Division II Non-Select, swept the eight-seed Tide 8-1 and 8-4 to take the best-of-three series and send the Bulldogs into the next round.

Minden took the first game of the series on Friday by 5-4 when Landon Brewer walked the Tide off with an RBI single in the bottom of the seventh. Brewer’s game winner came following singles by Barron Bower and Bray Winston.

Brewer also had a game-tying home run win the bottom of the third.

In Saturday’s first game, Iota got all the runs it would need on a two-RBI single off the bat of Reece Dommert. The Bulldogs went up 5-0 in the third before the Tide could get on the scoreboard.

Brewer continued his hot hitting in the playoffs with another two hits. Keegan Pope and Jaxon Smith had the only other hits for the Tide.

In Saturday’s clincher, Minden took a 1-0 lead in the bottom of the third on an RBI single by Hudson Brown, the first of his two hits on the day.

That lead lasted only one inning as Iota came storming back with seven runs in the top of the fifth to put the game away. The Tide managed two in the bottom the sixth and one the seventh, but the Bulldogs came away with the 8-4 win and a trip to the next round.

Brown and Keegan Pope had a pair of hits each. Dakota Street and Brewer, who was walked twice intentionally, had one hit apiece.

Minden closed its season at 23-13.