SUMMIT - The Baseball Tigers earned a split at Southwest Saturday, downing the Bears with an impressive comeback 7-6 in Game 2 after being shutout 5-0 in Game 1. Dustin Allen earned his 8th win of the season by firing a 7-inning complete game in Game 2.

Kris Peet started Game 1 for the Tigers and was solid, allowing just 1 earned run over 8 innings of work. But the defense struggled behind him, allowing the Bears to score 4 unearned runs. The team committed 7 errors for the game.

Southwest was led in Game 1 by Steven Williams, who finished 2 for 3 with a walk. The Bears tagged Peet for 9 hits, scoring twice in the 3rd, once in the 4th, and twice in the 6th to notch their 20th overall win of the season and their 9th in conference play.

Allen took the mound for CCC in Game 2 and got off to a rocky start. He allowed a 5-run first, highlighted by a 3-run HR by Bears catcher Kaleb Clarke, and then another tally in the second to put Coahoma in an early hole. 

But the offense would slowly chip away at the Bears' 6-0 lead. Hayden Tapper contributed an RBI groundout in the 3rd, and Braxton Wall blasted his second HR of the season in the 4th off Southwest starter Darian Tunstall to reduce the lead to 6-2. 

The Tigers would do some serious damage in the 5th, getting an RBI double from Adam Cook and RBI singles from Zach Morris and Wesley Dew to trim the Southwest lead to just 1. 

Allen, who did not allow a run after the second, induced a key double play to escape a men-on-the-corners jam in the 5th and then stranded a man on 3rd in the 6th to give his team a chance to complete the comeback in the 7th.

The bats would do just that, with Morris driving in Cook on a base hit to center that was mishandled. Pinch hitter Latalo Newson would then give CCC its first lead of the twinbill on an RBI single that scored Morris.

Allen would complete the job and seal the 7-6 win by working around a 2-out double by Clarke in the 7th. He stranded his pinch runner on second by striking out shortstop Alex Smith to end the game.

CCC (13-28-1, 8-18 MACJC) travel to Meridian tomorrow for a doubleheader that was moved up from Wednesday due to potential inclement weather. Start time will be 2 pm. A live stream will be available on coahomasports.com/watch.

The team concludes its season Saturday at home vs. Jones County.