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The Devils, after losing their opener to the Bearcats back in early May, waited to finish off the suspended second game, which they held a 6-3 lead after four innings. 10-2 record. Now, it's just a matter of if the Devils share the title or take it outright. Ubly is 9-2 and needs to make up a game at Mayville this Thursday, where a win gives the Bearcats a share with Brown City. However, Mayville, 8-2, could win against Ubly and then finish a game with Harbor Beach to gain a share with the Devils. Mayville and Beach were tied after six innings when that game was stopped because of darkness.

Last Friday, Brown City had a chance to help themselves toward an outright title, but split with Harbor Beach, losing a tough 1-0 decision the opener.

That does not matter now for first-year coach Tom Long.

'Right now I'm ecstatic! I hadn't slept in two days just because of these three innings," Long said after Monday's win.

"The kids did a great job," he continued. "I had these kids through the system (junior varsity) and was able to come up with them as seniors. They knew what to expect. They knew (this season) was going to mean something. I'm very happy for the seniors to go out with a championship. Now, we want to take that into the Districts."

The Green Devils, 17--5 overall, finished off Ubly in the top of the seventh by scoring four runs.

"Cordero Morse had laid down a sacrifice bunt that broke it open. (Ubly) threw the ball into right field and we scored two runs," explained Long. BC then added two more tallies.

Ubly pitchers, for the entire game, gave up 15 walks.

Senior Andre Sanson pitched the final three innings Monday to pick up the save, giving up an unearned run.

Earlier, Gus Dufort had a two-run triple and Doug Martus drove in a pair of runs in a six-run second inning back on May 1. Aaron Bullock had started that game on the mound and collected the win two-and-a-half weeks later.

BC wraps up the regular season at home with non-league games against North Branch this Thursday and then plays, at home, in a Division 3 Pre-District game against Memphis on Tuesday, May 27.

Brown City 0, 7 Harbor Beach 1, 1
It was a difficult loss to take for the Devils in Friday's opener against Harbor Beach.

The Pirates broke a 0-0 tie in the top of the seventh on a pair of hits and a sacrifice fly. BC put a rally on in the bottom of the inning but failed to score with the bases loaded. Sanson lined a base hit to open the inning and moved to second on Ryan Hoff's sacrifice bunt. The next two batters walked, but two strikeouts ended the contest.

Ed Rayba, fanned 11 Pirate batters, but took the loss.

"Normally, we can put up 10 runs on a drop of dime," shrugged Long. "But, it just didn't happen. It was the first split we've had all season and it came on the wrong night.

"The thing is," he added, "we were resilient enough to come back in the next game."

It was all BC in game two. Sanson threw a two--hitter and also collected two hits and scored two runs.

Hoff led the hitting attack by going 3-for-4. Bullock had two hits, Cody Hughes had a single and two RBI, and Kevin Kalbfleisch had a single and an RBI.