After falling behind 3-0 to begin Wednesday's game, the Fighting Scots Varsity baseball team scored a single run in the first and three more in the second inning to go ahead for good against the opposing Hoke County Bucks, earning a 6-4 victory and another conference championship in the process.

Scots head coach Tommy Britt pointed to a first inning run against Hoke starter Ronald Womack, who no hit Scotland in the two team's first match up at McCoy Field, as a key confidence builder that shaped the rest of the game for his team.

"We looked pretty bad in infield (practice), and I said, 'Look, guys, it's nice to look good in infield, but that isn't where it counts, so settle down, relax and play well,' and their confidence showed."

While Womack did manage 17 strike outs against Scotland Wednesday evening, it was Scotland starter Ryan Pierce who stole the show with a resilient 5 and 1/3 innings of solid pitching.

Pierce (8 strikeouts) allowed three runs in the first inning, but effectively shut down the Bucks from there until the bottom of the sixth inning when he allowed the game's only other run.

Curt Britt took over with one gone in the sixth and closed out Hoke County, finishing with three strikeouts over the final 1 and 2/3 for the save.

The win moves the Scots' Mid-Southeastern Conference record to 11-2, two games ahead of both Hoke County and Pinecrest with only one game to play, locking up Britt's eleventh conference championship in 17 years at the helm.

Scotland last won a conference title during the NCHSAA Championship season of 2006.

A Paul Yarbrough (2-for-4) single on a line drive to right center field in the top of the second inning started the Scots most productive inning, which was kept alive by a throwing error by Hoke County's second baseman, Donald Womack.

Later in the same inning Scotland catcher Ryan Walker (1-for-1, 2 walks, hit by pitch) dispatched a hanging breaking pitch to right field for a two RBI single, scoring Ryan Norton and Phillip Williams (2 runs).

The Scotland starter, Pierce, did little to hurt his cause at the plate against the boisterous Bucks, going 1-for-3 with a double and two runs scored.

Seven walks over seven innings pitched along with three hit batsmen spelled doom for Hoke starter Ronald Womack, who also saw three errors committed by his defense in support. Womack orchestrated an 8-0 dismantling of Scotland during his no hit performance at McCoy field earlier in the season with three fewer strikeouts (15) than he had Wednesday.

Asked if his team would do anything differently against Friday's final conference opponent, Jack Britt, Britt said that his team was "going to stay focused," not changing any of its thus far successful routines.

"These guys did an outstanding job, and I am so proud of them."