AFTON – It was a heart-breaker for the Afton Crimson Knights baseball team, who suffered a season-ending 7-2 loss to Elmira-Notre Dame on Wednesday afternoon. The Crimson Knights had a great season with a lot of great memories for its big senior class, especially the big 11-game win streak, making it to the MAC title game, and making it to the semi-finals in the Section IV, Class D tournament. All the fond moments helped the team finish 14-4 on the season. While they fell short, this season is one to remember for Coach Robert Bronson and his talented team.

It was a scoreless, defensive battle through three innings with both teams throwing out runners attempting to advance. This showed how much each team wanted to go play for the sectional championship. The Crusaders got on the board first in the top of the fourth inning with a two-out double to center field.

Being down 1-0 was no problem for the Crimson Knights. In fact, it didn’t take long for them to tie up the game. Braydon Baciuska led the bottom of the fourth off with a walk before he scored on a deep triple to center from Matt Carman. Carter Burns, who was a strong hitter this season, was intentionally walked and Carman at third scored on Tim Barnett’s RBI single down the right field line on a 1-2 count.