STANDISH – Sometimes it just isn’t in the cards. That became evident when Sam Terry’s pop up, which seemed to be heading for the woods behind home plate, somehow drifted back into play for the final out of the Class A state final.

With that, Scarborough fell 6-3 to Eastern champ Messalonskee at St. Joseph’s College in Standish.

After pulling off what was perhaps the most dramatic win of the postseason in the regional final, the Red Storm (17-3) made a series of errors that the Eagles (15-5) were all too happy to take advantage of.

Through the first two innings, it seemed like the Red Storm were well on their way to securing the title.

“I thought we had it when we were up 2-0,” said Scarborough’s Joe Cronin, whose home run in the Western Class A final sent his team to the Saturday’s championship.

However, as the Red Storm had proven in the regionals just days before, baseball is a game that can change in a matter of moments.

Scarborough starting pitcher Ben Greenberg was cruising through the first three innings, retiring all nine batters he faced, until a Jack Dexter single to start the fourth gave the Eagles some life. After a failed sacrifice bunt, Sam Dexter roped a tailor-made double play ball to Cronin at short.

On the last hop, the ball exploded into Cronin’s chest, preventing a double play. Cronin recovered quickly and threw to first and appeared to get Dexter, but the first base umpire ruled that the throw pulled first basemen Sam Wessel off the bag.

After that, the sure-fielding Red Storm began to press.

Greenberg surrendered an RBI single to left and Sam Dexter scored on a throwing error to tie the score. Reid Nutter followed with another RBI single and the Eagles’ fourth run came home on another throwing error.

“That inning when we threw the ball around like that I was just in shock,” said Scarborough coach Mike Coutts.

The Red Storm, who had only committed 11 errors during the regular season, made seven on Saturday.

“It changes the complexion of the game when you have to make 28 outs instead of 21 outs,” said Coutts. “Sometimes things just happen and you can’t explain it.”

The Eagles scored two more in the top of the sixth after Red Storm second basemen Nick Bagley had the ball kicked out of his glove when trying to tag a Eagle runner on a stealing attempt.

At the plate, the Red Storm were kept at bay by Eagles’ starter Devin Warren, who surrendered only three hits and struck out five over 6 1/3 innings of work.

“He kept us off balance,” said Coutts. “All season long our Achilles’ heel was that we didn’t hit guys’ off-speed.”

“That wasn’t our team,” he said.