File photo by Travis Rosenau Stark Longhorns’ Mason Cox throws his elbow guard after reaching first during a Region 2C playoff game in Sleepy Eye on Aug. 12.

DUNDAS — While the Stark Longhorns’ Mason Cox couldn’t have picked a better time to collect his first hit of the game Friday night, a play at the plate ended the Longhorns’ season on a heartbreaker as the Dumont Saints won 3-2 in a Class C Minnesota State Amateur Baseball Tournament game at Memorial Park.

The win moves the Saints on to the quarterfinals Sunday.

Cox was 0 for 4 against Dumont starting pitcher Jordan Roos until he singled off Roos in the bottom of the ninth to score David Surprenant from third and have Stark down 3-2 with two outs. On that hit, a blooper to shallow center, Stark pinch runner Talan Helget tried to score from second but was tagged out at the plate for the final out of the game.

Helget was running for Tim Seifert, who walked with one out and advanced to second on a wild pitch. Surprenant reached earlier in the inning on an error with one out.

Roos allowed two unearned runs on seven hits and four walks in his complete-game effort. He struck out 10 and threw 152 pitches.

Stark starting pitcher Chase Meyer, a Courtland draftee, pitched six innings and gave up two earned runs on five hits and three walks while fanning five. He threw 101 pitches. Jackson Bode, another Courtland draftee, allowed one earned run on three walks and a hit in three innings of work while fanning four.

Sean Mathiowetz led the Stark bats, going 2 for 5 with a run scored.

Stark threatened to score early in the bottom of the second after Mathiowetz led off with a single and stole second. After a strikeout, Brandon Helget took first on a four-pitch walk.

A double steal put Mathiowetz at third and Helget at second, but Roos got a strikeout and a flyout to end the top half of the inning.

After another scoreless inning in the third, the Saints got on the board first in the top of the fourth after a wild pitch and a passed ball allowed Matthew Thielen to score. Thielen led off with a single and was moved to second on a Mason Lampe single.

Dumont took a 2-0 lead later in the fourth after Patrick Kussats laid down a sac bunt to score Lampe.

The Longhorns got a run back in the sixth after Mathiowetz singled and later scored on an error. The Saints got that run back in the ninth after Eli Larson, who doubled with one out, came home on a wild pitch.