The South Tahoe Vikings baseball team started fast Tuesday, April 17, against Dayton, but ended slow.

The Vikings scored twice in the first inning and built a 3-1 lead heading into the bottom of the second but ended up surrendering five runs in both the fifth and sixth innings and the Dust Devils walked off the field with a 15-5 victory.

Dayton avenged an 8-4 defeat earlier this month, April 3.

The Vikings (10-9, 7-8 3A Northern League) dropped into a fourth place tie with the Lowry Roughriders, three games behind third place Truckee and just one full game ahead of sixth place teams (Dayton 7-10) and Fernley (5-8).

The top six teams in the nine-team league advance to postseason.

Elko (13-1) sits atop the league and is followed by Churchill (11-2) and Truckee (9-4).

South Tahoe has nine games remaining on its regular season schedule and next plays Lowry at 3 p.m. Friday, April 20, at South Tahoe Middle School. The teams will play a doubleheader the next day starting at 11 a.m. at the same place.