After a lengthy break due to precautions taken by the UIL due to swine flu, both Kilgore High School diamond teams are now in playoff mode. The KHS Lady Bulldogs softball team lost game 1 of a best-of-three-game series at Sulphur Springs on Friday night, and are still scheduled to host Sulphur Springs as the series concludes tonight -- weather permitting. Game 2 will begin at 6 p.m., and a third game, if needed, would follow -- for there to be a third game, though, Kilgore would have to win game 2. Otherwise, the Lady 'Dogs' season comes to a close. The baseball Bulldogs finished their regular season Friday night with an 18-8 win at Nacogdoches. Kilgore had already qualified for its seventh straight postseason, and will begin that postseason on Thursday. The Bulldogs will face Marshall in a best-of-three-game Class 4A bidistrict playoff series. Game 1 will be at Marshall at 7 p.m. Thursday. Game 2 will be here at Driller Park on Saturday at 1 p.m., and a third game, again if needed, would follow game 2. There have been lots of twists and turns in recent weeks involving the KHS teams, and some of that didn't have anything to do with on-the-field play. The University Interscholastic League decided to suspend all sports about 12 days ago, based on fear of the swine flu outbreak and trying to keep it from being spread. Kilgore's softball team finished its regular season right as the UIL hold was imposed, and then worked out a new playoff schedule with Sulphur based on the hold. The UIL then reversed itself, telling teams not only to go ahead and play, but to wrap up the first round by Tuesday (tomorrow). The result was last week's game in Sulphur, a Friday night game that saw KHS fall, 6-0. It was just the second loss for Kilgore in six games. Now, KHS must hold off Sulphur in Game 2 tonight, win it, and then win game 3 to advance. As for the KHS baseball team, things went from very bad to very good in the span of the district schedule. Kilgore opened District 14-4A play with three straight losses, but then rebounded and won seven straight (including over Whitehouse and Henderson, the two teams with the best records in the district). Kilgore, then, qualified for the 4A playoffs in the third seed out of 14-4A, and was expecting to face Hallsville. That changed when Hallsville was ruled by the UIL to have played at least one ineligible player, and the Bobcats missed the playoffs. KHS will now face Marshall in the first round instead.