After a perfect 20-0 regular season and Regional Championship,  Troy returned to the 2-1A State Baseball Tournament for the second straight year as the top seed in Great Bend.  For the first six innings they looked like the team to beat with a 3-1 advantage over Sacred Heart heading into the final inning of the opening game on Thursday.  

Tristan Speer had retired 13 straight batters and got the first out of the seventh inning before the first error of the game opened the flood gates on an already wet and muddy field.  The first Troy misplay at shortstop was followed by a Sacred Heart single, then another error at third loaded the bases. Speer allowed his only free pass of the game by plunking the number seven batter on a 1-2 pitch and Nathan Gaarder came in to try and protect a 3-2 lead.  Yet, the only freshman playing in the game fouled off two pitches to stay alive and hit a 1-2 pitch to third when Troy committed their third error of the inning, and the game was tied.  A fielders choice and RBI single then followed as the Knights (9-13) took a 5-3 advantage before getting three ground ball outs in the bottom of the 7th to complete the miraculous comeback and upset victory.  

Sacred Heart pitcher, Josh Dolan, danced around trouble the first four innings, as Troy left the bases loaded in the first and stranded nine total runners in the game.  The Trojans took a 2-1 lead in the third frame with a sac fly by Wil Smith and RBI single from Chris Winkel, then added a tally in the fourth on an RBI hit by Speer.  Dolan finished the game with 101 pitches and retired 10 of the last 11 Troy batters. Sacred Heart used three straight hits in the second inning to take a 1-0 advantage but that was the only frame they had a base runner until scoring the four runs on two hits and three errors plus a hit batter in the seventh.  

All nine of the Troy hits were singles including two each for Reid Greaser and Tucker Morris.  The Trojans finish the season with a 20-1 record.