West Greene closed out their Watauga Conference regular season in fine fashion Tuesday afternoon, exploding past the visiting Johnson County Longhorns 12-2 in five innings to enter the upcoming District 1-AA Tournament on a high note.

The Buffs, who won for only the second time in the conference this season but improved their overall mark to 7-13, clubbed three home runs in a seven-run second inning that propelled them past the Longhorns.

West Greene will go into Saturday's district tournament at Elizabethton's Joe O'Brien Field as the No. 7 seed and will play No. 2 seed Elizabethton at noon. No. 8 seed South Greene will take on No. 1 seed Unicoi County at 2:30, and No. 3 seed Chuckey-Doak will play at 7:30 against the No. 6 seed Johnson County.

The Buffs got a strong pitching performance from Brandon Campbell, one of three seniors honored on "Senior Day." Michael Hopson and Adrian Sauceman were also recognized in their final home game at West Greene. Campbell allowed seven hits, but his defense backed him with good play.

After scoring a solo run in the first inning on a couple of hits, a walk and a Johnson County error, West Greene really got things going in the bottom of the second.

After Hopson walked with one out, Jordan Davis unleashed a two-run homer to left, and then Sauceman made it back-to-back jacks with a towering homer to right to up the lead to 4-0.

The Buffs were not through. Jordan Ward reached on an error, and Dalton Lamb was hit by a pitch. Zach McCamey bunted, and Ward scored when the ball was thrown away at first base after the bunt. Chance Lamb followed that up when he stroked a three-run shot into the trees beyond the right field fence to up the lead to 8-0.

The Longhorns threatened in the third after Matt Cornett and Ronnie Roark opened the inning with singles. Justin Paisley hit into a fielder's choice, then Cornett was thrown out at home plate trying to score on a wild pitch as Buff catcher Ward chased the ball down and threw to Campbell covering the plate.

West Greene opened up a 10-0 lead with two more runs in the bottom of the third. Ward had an RBI double plating Davis, who had walked, and Ward later scored on a wild pitch.

The Buffs continued to circle the bases in the fourth with two more runs. Hopson knocked in one run with a fielder's choice, and Ward had the other RBI when he walked with the bases loaded.

Johnson County averted the shutout with two runs in the fifth to close to 12-2, but that would not be enough to extend the game which was called due to the 10-run "mercy" rule. Luke Arnold had an RBI hit in the fifth for the Horns and Josh Dowell drove in a run on an infield force play.

Davis, Sauceman and Chance Lamb had two hits each for West Greene. Arnold had two hits for Johnson County.

ROGERSVILLE -- Greeneville High beat Cherokee in a 7-6 thriller here Tuesday night, and the two teams will get together again this afternoon at Dale Alexander Field at 5 p.m. to close out the regular season.

Cody Duncan was the winning pitcher with Ryan Fillers coming on in relief and getting a save.

Thomas Tilson led GHS at the plate with a double and single. Ryan Duncan and Josh Bolton each collected two hits. Ben Jennings, Cody Duncan and Tyler Stewart each collected one hit.

Greeneville will celebrate "Senior Night" at Dale Alexander Field beginning at 4:45 p.m. prior to the season finale with the Chiefs.

North Greene defeated Cloudland 4-1 at home on Tuesday in a conference showdown.

Chuckey-Doak traveled to Rutledge and dropped both ends of a doubleheader 11-5 and 12-1.

Greeneville's junior varsity traveled to Cherokee Tuesday evening and came up on the short end of a 9-8 affair.

Greeneville got on top in the first scoring once, but the Chiefs came back in the bottom to take the lead 2-1. The Greene Devils regained the lead in the top of the second with two runs and then scored three insurance runs in the fourth making the score 6-1.

Cherokee scored once in the bottom of the fourth, but Greeneville retaliated with two runs in the top of the fifth stretching the lead to 8-3. The damage was done in the bottom of the fifth as Cherokee pushed six runs across the plate to claim the victory.

Greeneville was led at the plate by Brent Kinser with a triple and double to go along with two RBIs followed by Tyler Bowman with two singles and a pair of RBIs. Greeneville will close out the season as they host Cherokee tonight as part of a varsity/JV doubleheader beginning with senior night activities at 4:45.

GRAY -- Homestanding Daniel Boone spotted South Greene a 7-0 lead through 3 1/2 innings, then rallied with eight runs in the sixth to beat the Rebels 10-7 here Tuesday afternoon.

Scott Susong lined out three hits, including a homer and double, to pace the South Greene attack. Alex Arwood also clubbed a homer and lined a double. Caleb Dishner was top stick for Boone with a double and two singles and Alex Reynolds added two hits.

Cody Lowery pitched well through five innings before running out of gas in the sixth.

The loss closed out the regular season for the Rebels. They will play Unicoi County Saturday at 2:30 p.m. in the opening round of the district tournament at Elizabethton.