HUNTSVILLE — West chased Diboll starter Carson Morales with six runs in the third inning, got two more in the fourth and held on for an 8-5 win over the Lumberjacks here Wednesday in the first game of a best-of-three regional semifinal series.

The Trojans’ big hits in the third and fourth were triples from Easton Rineault and Jacob Boggs. West led 8-3 after four, and allowed Diboll to get within three runs at 8-5 in the sixth before reliever Braxton Davis got the ‘Jacks out in order in the seventh.

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