MANSON—A five-run third inning proved to be the difference on Thursday, June 2 as the North Union Warriors baseball team dropped a 9-7 non-conference contest to the Manson Northwest Webster Cougars.

The Cougars scored single runs in both the second and fourth stanzas, plated two runs in the sixth frame and the five tallies in the third while North Union scored twice in both the first seventh innings and added three more in the fourth.