Locked in a low-scoring fight — unusual for West Field baseball — the No. 4 Longhorns led No. 1 Spanish Fork 2-1 from the fourth inning on and held the Dons to just four base hits through six innings.

But West Field couldn’t find the decisive punch and the defending-champion Dons got off the mat just before the bell to get the game to extras, where Spanish Fork won 4-2 in eight innings.

It’s just the third time this season West Field (25-5) has been held under five runs, and the decision ends the Longhorns’ 22-game winning streak (good enough to get the second-year school onto the end of the list for consecutive wins in the UHSAA record book).

That forces the if-necessary game to conclude the double-elimination portion of the 5A tournament, and will mark the third consecutive day WF and SF will play each other after the Longhorns stunned the Dons with a legendary comeback Tuesday.

Both sides of the bracket will play the if-game tomorrow, with No. 2 Maple Mountain and No. 3 Pleasant Grove scheduled for a 4:30 p.m. start Thursday at UVU, and West Field and Spanish Fork contesting their rematch following them, with a tentative 7 p.m. start  (Wednesday’s game began at 7:45 p.m.).

Both games decide who will play the best-of-three championship series Friday and Saturday.

Spanish Fork (27-4) struck first with a Sammy Dart RBI double in the third to go up 1-0.

West Field answered in the bottom half when Samuel Smith singled home Kolt Abbott, a courtesy runner for Grady Garret. The Longhorns took the 2-1 lead in the fourth when Andrew Hurst singled in Marshal Moon.

That’s when Spanish Fork handed the ball to Pratt Morley, and he became the hero of the Dons’ story so far. Morley pitched four perfect innings and struck out eight in the process to entirely flummox a West Field offense used to reaching double digits in the runs column.

Still, the Dons needed a run. After starter Hurst pitched four innings of one-run ball, Wyatt Hansen had two scoreless frames for West Field, allowing just one hit.

That got the ball to Moon, who induced a flyout to open the top of the seventh. West Field was two outs from the championship series.

But Nixon Warren worked a walk and Moon hit Dart to put two aboard. Trigg Cloward roped a double down the left-field line that scored Warren but, for a moment, West Field’s hero got involved.

Luke Penland chased to the corner and threw to third baseman Wyatt Penrod as the cutoff man inside the baseline; Penrod’s quick turn to home put the ball on the money to catcher Garrett to nail Dart for an out and keep the game tied.

Penrod then cleaned up a groundout in one of his several above-average-to-stellar defensive plays in the night, ending the threat with the go-ahead runner on second.

West Field couldn’t hold Spanish Fork back from there, though. After Morley recorded his third 1-2-3 inning to send the game to extras, the Dons got their leadoff man Matai Johnson aboard in the eighth when he waved at a wild outside pitch and sprinted to first on a dropped third strike.

SF bunted him over, then Morley amplified his pitching performance with an RBI single to put the Dons ahead 3-2. Cohen Nelson lined a triple to the right-center gap to provide an insurance run, and Morley recorded his fourth and final 1-2-3 inning to cap the win.