Ryan Dellinger, who had three hits in the title game, is one of the few graduating seniors for the Blacksburg Wildcats. Chesterfield players were overjoyed. Blacksburg High players were disappointed.

Those were the opposite reactions after Chesterfield scored two runs in the bottom of the seventh inning to beat the Wildcats 5-4 and capture the district championship on Wednesday.

Blacksburg forced the winner take-all game by beating Chesterfield 6-5 in game one. With the victory, Chesterfield advances to the upperstate playoffs, while Blacksburg ends its season with a 14-5 mark. Both teams entered Wednesday's games ranked in the top 10.

"The season was successful," Blacksburg coach Toby Elliott said. "I was happy the way we played." We're very disappointed, but I'm proud of the kids. They left everything they had on the field."

Blacksburg and Chesterfield each scored runs in the first inning of the second game. The Wildcats went on top with two runs in the second. Jonathan Smith singled home Ryan Dellinger, who had singled; and Ashby Pruitt, who had walked.

Chesterfield tied the game with two run in the bottom of the third before the Wildcats regained a 1-run lead when Dellinger homered in the sixth. Dellinger was 3 for 3 for the game.

But Chesterfield, which lost in the state championship series last season, rallied for two runs in the bottom of the seventh for the win.

Smith started and went six innings, giving up five runs and striking out three.

In the first game, the Wildcats jumped to a 5-0 lead. Dellinger had a RBI single, Pruitt knocked in two with a double in the third inning and Norman blasted a 2-run homer in the fifth.

Chesterfield cut the deficit to 5-3 in the fifth before the Wildcats added a run in the sixth inning to lead 6-3.

Chesterfield made things interesting in the seventh to cut the margin to a run, but Norman pitched out of the jam to preserve the win.

Norman allowed eight hits and struck out 10.

Norman had three hits, while Pruitt and Josh Elmore each had two.

The Wildcats should return another strong team next season. The pitching staff, featuring Norman, Smith and Joseph Upchurch, returns.

The Wildcats will lose Dellinger, Pruitt, Elmore, Tanner Hughes and Josh Scruggs to graduation.