The San Benito High baseball team made two consecutive Central Coast Section championship games, but unfortunately for the Balers, they both ended with the same result: a loss.
The Balers used a four-run sixth inning to beat Salinas 5-3 and pull even with the Cowboys for second place in the Tri-County Athletic League on Thursday.
Two days after the boys basketball team was eliminated from the Central Coast Section tournament, the team was rewarded for its season-long success by the Tri-County Athletic League.
With six straight Tri-County Athletic League championships in a row, and a last-inning loss in the Central Coast Section championship game a year ago, the 2012 San Benito baseball team has a lot of history to live up to.
Basketball is a game of runs, and Friday night, Palma's one run was enough to hold off San Benito 52-44 in a battle for sole possession of first place in the Tri-County Athletic League.