After playing a one-run game in Friday’s series opener in Lubbock, the Wylie and Lubbock Cooper baseball teams needed 15 innings Saturday to decide which of the two teams would advance to next week’s area round.

And in a fashion befitting what was a thrilling series from start to finish, that determination wasn’t made until the final pitch.

Wylie, an 8-7 winner on Friday, bounced back from a 3-1 loss in Game 2 on Saturday to claim a 5-4 walk-off win in the deciding third game and extend its season at least one more week.