The Greyhound baseball team will enter the playoffs as a second seed after losing its district showdown will Kerrville Tivy.

As Yogi Berra would say, it was déjà vu all over again.

For the second time this month, the Boerne Greyhound baseball team took a lead into the last inning against the Kerrville Tivy Antlers, only to see it unravel like a cheap suit.

The first time the two teams met in Boerne, the District 27-4A lead was at stake. Friday night in Kerrville, the title itself was on the line.

The result was the same, as Tivy overcame a 3-1 deficit to win 4-3 in the bottom of the seventh and final inning.

Although every game has been close, the Antlers have now won four of the last five meetings between the two teams dating back to last year. The latest Boerne loss guaranteed Tivy its second straight district championship and a first-round playoff bye.

Boerne will again enter the playoffs as the district’s second seed regardless of what happened Tuesday night when the Hounds played their final home game of the season against Fredericksburg.

The Billies were still battling for the third playoff spot with Alamo Heights, which hosted Tivy Tuesday night.

Boerne will meet the third place team from District 28-4A in bi-district play, which begins May 3.

Right hander Barrett Houser (7-1) went the distance for the Hounds against Tivy and pitched well enough to win. Instead, he was tagged with his first loss of the year.

Boerne missed a chance to take a big lead after starting the game with three consecutive singles to load the bases with no outs.

The Hounds scored one run off a Tivy throwing error and Chad Long plated another with a sacrifice fly, but Tivy starting pitcher Kyle Prater pitched his way out of the jam and gave up only four more hits and one run the rest of the way.

The Hounds also lost a chance to pad a 3-1 lead in the sixth. Boerne had runners on the corners and its best hitter, Drew Roumelis, at the plate with two outs.

Tivy had nine hits to Boerne’s seven, but had to overcome three errors to Boerne’s none.