Head Coach Dwayne Sapp recently talked about how difficult it is to come back from a large deficit acquired in a single inning of baseball. So things may have looked bleak on March 8 when the Fannin Rebels came to Tiger Stadium to open region play and put up six runs in the fifth to make the score 7-0 amid a lot of vocal, negative feedback from the visitors' stands. In the first of the three game series, the Rebels pitching looked unstoppable as lefty Will Shirah struck out 12 Tigers through those first five innings.