Max Borel of the Iberia Athletic Association gets a putout at first base against Alabama.

Playing in a tough regional in Dumas, Texas, the Iberia Athletic Association Babe Ruth 15U All-Stars had some close games and battled throughout but eventually finished in fourth place with a record of three wins and two losses.

“It was a great experience for us,” Babe Ruth coach Bryan Geoffroy said. “The kids played great. We had our chances to win but ultimately we came up just a little short.”

The IAA team dropped its first game of the regional 11-1 to Eagle Pass, Texas, to fall into the loser’s bracket and then ran off three straight wins beating Long Beach, Mississippi, 16-3; Dumas, Texas, 13-7 and Monroe County, Alabama, 11-0 to reach the quarterfinals of the tournament before being eliminated with a 9-5 loss to South Brazoria County, Texas.

“We didn’t play well in that first game,” Geoffroy said. “Then we played really well in the next three games. In that last game, they scored six runs on us without getting a hit early in the game and we battled back as best we could but it proved to be too much to come back from.”

Geoffroy said there were 10 teams in the regional tournament and that South Brazoria County eventually won the regional.

“So in the end we lost to the eventual champions,” he said.

Eagle Pass 11, IAA 1

In the Iberia All-Stars’ first game of the tournament, Kade Gonsoulin had a triple and an RBI while Beau Hebert, Tyrese Morgan, Jaxon Dubose and Noah Myers each had a single.

Hebert scored the only run of the game for IAA.

IAA 16, Long Beach 3

In the first game of the three game winning streak, Hunter Dugas, Carson Romero and Jaxon Dubose each had two hits as part of a 12-hit attack for IAA.

Dubose had two doubles and scored three runs, Dugas also had a double and scored a run, Max Borel had a double and three RBIs and Alex Barras had two RBIs and scored three runs.

Noah Meyers, Barras, Brock Boudreaux, Tyrese Morgan and Kade Gonsoulin each had a hit.

IAA 13, Dumas 7

Jaxon Dubose had two hits and scored two runs while Beau Hebert had two hits and two RBIs in the 13-7 win over Dumas County.

Hunter Dugas, Kade Gonsoulin, Max Borel, Tyrese Morgan, Brock Boudreaux, Alex Barras and Noah Meyers each had hit.

IAA 11, Monroe County 10

Kade Gonsoulin had two hits, including the game-winner, as IAA advanced to the quarterfinals with the 11-0 win.

Beau Hebert had two hits and scored a run, Jaxon Dubose had two hits, including a double, and two RBIs, Noah Meyers also had two hits and three RBIs while Hunter Dugas, Max Borel, Tyrese Morgan, Brock Boudreaux, Andrew Thompson and David Saenz each had a hit.

South Brazoria 9, IAA 5

The Iberia All-Stars could only manage five hits in the elimination game against South Brazoria. Kade Gonsoulin had a hit and scored a run, Max Borel had a hit and two RBIs, Tyrese Morgan also had a hit and scored a run, Jaxon Dubose doubled  and Andrew Thompson had a single.

Over the course of the tournament, the team finished with 41 RBIs, eight doubles and a triple with a team batting average of .324. Dubose finished with the most hits on the team (8), followed by Gonsoulin (6) and Meyers and Hebert (5 each)

“Overall it was a good run,” the coach said. “It was disappointing to lose but the kids had a great time and that’s what mattered most.”