DWIGHT — The Armstrong-Potomac baseball team continued its playoff run with another amazing comeback on Saturday.

Gibson City-Melvin-Sibley built a 3-0 lead in the second inning and was holding the Trojans’ offense down before the fifth inning, when A-P scored four runs in the bottom of the fifth to get a 4-3 win over the Falcons and an IHSA Class 1A sectional title.

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