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The win streak was snapped at seven for the Keota baseball team on Friday when they couldn’t hold off a late Lynnville-Sully rally in a 9-8 home loss in extra innings. 

The Eagles had an 8-7 advantage after five when the South Iowa Cedar League leading Hawks (13-1, 10-0) tied the game in the sixth and eventually pushed the winning run across in the top of the eighth with no answer from Keota in the bottom half. The purple and gold had seven hits with Aidan Anderson going 2-for-3 with one RBI and two runs scored. Caden Clarahan and Chase Sieren each pushed across a couple tallies. Colten Clarahan tossed 5 1/3 frames surrendering five earned runs on three hits and striking out nine. Caden Clarahan suffered the loss recording the final seven outs giving up one run on two hits. 

Keota falls to 13-4 overall and 9-2 in the SICL. 

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