GREENVILLE — If the scholastic summer league proved anything, it’s that the Washington Pam Pack will be a competitive baseball team in 2016.

Up against some of the best players from powerhouse J.H. Rose in the semi-finals of the league’s postseason tournament held at Guy Smith Stadium on Thursday, the Pam Pack saw a four-run lead slip away in the final three innings and eventually fell to Greenville, 8-7, on a walk-off hit in the final inning.

“We started off good, but made a few mental mistakes here and there. We shouldn’t of lost that game,” said head coach Kevin Leggett. “I think they’re learning to fight back and play when they’re down. When we got down tonight, we came back, something we really didn’t have during the (high school) season.”

Rising junior Tripp Barfield pounded the strike zone through his four innings on the mound, limiting free base runners and holding Greenville to just three runs (one earned) on three hits. He finished with three strikeouts.

Opposing starter Chandler Hollow contained the Pam Pack bats early before a rocky fifth inning. In four-plus innings of work, Hollow allowed five runs (three earned) on five hits and two walks.

While the regular high school season was full of multi-run deficits and stranded runners for the Pam Pack, Thursday’s game proved just how far the team has come in two months time.

Washington broke the deadlock in the second inning after a Drew Ferguson followed a Barfield walk and a Logan Little fielder’s choice with a hard-hit single to right-center, scoring Little, who stole second base to work his way into scoring position.

The Pam Pack added to its lead in the third inning after Riley Davis walked and worked his way to third base after a throwing error by the catcher and a wild pitch from Hollow. After a Matthew Black single, Cody Godley grounded into a 6-4-3 double play, scoring Davis on the play. Fred Holscher followed with a double to right, but would be left stranded on second base.

After three innings of two-hit baseball, Barfield began to lose his command in the fourth. A hit batter, a wild pitch and an RBI groundout put Greenville on the board. Barfield retired the next batter, but with two outs, Gray McKenzie and Connor Sutton worked their way on via base on balls. A botched pickoff to first advanced McKenzie to third and Sutton to second and on the same play, an errant throw from the outfield scored McKenzie. Sutton eventually came around to score on an RBI single from Cooper Kunkle, giving Greenville a 3-2 advantage.

But in the team’s biggest inning of the game, Washington exploded for a five-run top of the fifth on an error, a triple from Black, a single from Godley, two walks and a two-RBI single from Ferguson.

Up 7-3, it was Greenville’s turn to chip away in the bottom half of the frame. With reliever Fred Holscher now in the game, two singles, a walk and a wild pitch cut the Pam Pack’s four-run lead to one.

Greenville won it in the bottom of the seventh after the first three batters — Kunkle, Everette Cassiter and Hollow — all reached and Sam Sneed hit a chopper past second to secure the walk-off base knock.

Ferguson finished the day 2-for-3 with three RBIs, while Black also notched two hits and an RBI.

With the loss, Washington closes out the summer season with a 6-4 record, one of the best marks in the league.

“I’m looking forward to next year, especially after this summer. Things are really looking up for the future,” Leggett said after the game.

“We’ll play a lot of these teams next year, so it gives us kind of an idea of what we’re going up against. It puts it in their head that we’ll be pretty good next year.”