PETERBOROUGH — Baseball truly is a game of inches. That’s how close last Wednesday’s Division II playoff game between No. 11 Kennett High and No. 6 ConVal was.
The host Cougars won 5-4 in a walk-off fashion in the bottom of the seventh inning in Peterborough, but the boys from Conway came oh-so-close to pulling off the upset.
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