On Tuesday, the Warriors fell short to Clayton, 6-4.

The Comets scored unearned runs in the first and third innings that kept them in the game early on.

After posting one run in the first, East Wake’s Shane Egan hit a three-run homer in the fourth to tie the game at four.

Clayton sealed the deal in the top of the fifth, scoring two more runs.

Despite having runners on base, the Warriors were unable to answer throughout the fifth, sixth and seventh innings.

Each team had 10 hits, but the Warriors had three errors, whereas Clayton had none.

In the Friday 4-3 loss to Garner, the Warriors found themselves in a familiar situation.

“It was the same old thing, just another game,” coach Kerry Kincaid said of the close-played matchup.

After ringing in three on Drew Alford’s base hit in the first inning, the team never made another offensive stand.

Adam Stephenson started on the mound. He gave up one run in the third, and sticking to pure history as an example, Kincaid made the call to rotate, benching Stephenson, and bringing in Justin O’Brien.

“I leave a kid in an the next thing you know I waited too late, so I changed early. In the fourth and fifth he went three down, two down, and walked one player,” Kincaid said.

After five innings, the score was still 3-1.

In the bottom of the sixth, Matt Hunichen stepped onto the mound and built up a 1-2 count on his opponent before giving up a homer that boosted the Trojans to within one run, 3-2.

After finishing the next batter, Hunichen gave up a double. With one out and a man on second, the next pitch came right back to Hunichen, who turned and was able to pick up out number two.

The next batter doubled, leaving men on second and third base, and the ensuing hit, also resulting in a double, rung in the win for Garner.

Unable to revive itself, East Wake went three up three down in the top of the seventh.

Alford was 2-3 at the plate and Greg Jones went 1-2 — both players combining for the three hits the team recorded as a whole.

“It was another typical one-run loss, and it’s as frustrating as it can be,” Kincaid said. “But I still think we’re going to win one of these games. If we were bad we’d lose all these games by six to eight to 10 runs, not by an average of two.”

Kincaid said, despite being recorded as the losing pitcher, Hunichen pitched well. Garner only had six hits, but to Garner’s favor four of the six fell in the bottom of the sixth inning.

Garner had two errors, and East Wake had one.

“I’ve had a lot of time to sit at home and look at the stats and think of what we could be doing different,” Kincaid said of time spent indoors resulting from surgery on a pinched nerve. “I know it’s hard on the team, and I just keep telling them we’re not bad. We just keep making mistakes that are killing us when averaging three-four runs per game. But hopefully we’ll get over that hump. Winning and losing are contagious. Somehow we have to get through it — over it.”