Porters Chapel Academy didn’t win a state championship this season, or even a playoff series. It did, however, have a pretty good collection of talent that’s getting ready for one last ride into the sunset.

Four PCA players — infielders Zac Morgan and Josh Daffron, catcher Hunter Lyons and outfielder Taylor Rushing — will play in the MAIS Class A All-Star Game today.

The Class A game is scheduled for 5 p.m. at Smith-Wills Stadium in Jackson. The Class AA-AAA game is at 2 p.m.

“Taking four people to the all-star game doesn’t happen a whole lot,” Rushing said. “It’s like going out there with your regular team.”

The four senior all-stars formed the core of a group that helped re-establish PCA as a playoff regular. The program made 13 consecutive playoff appearances from 1999-2011, then missed the postseason in 2012 and 2013.

This year’s senior class won back-to-back district championships and went 28-19 over the past two seasons.

“With the people we lost, we did pretty good this year,” Rushing said.

Rushing and Lyons were both three-year starters for the Eagles. Lyons led the team with a .500 batting average this season, hit 10 doubles and drove in 26 runs.

The center fielder Rushing hit .383 with 13 RBIs and 22 runs scored. It wasn’t his highest batting average — he hit .435 as a sophomore — but good enough to be one of the better players in the state.

Rushing was glad for it, too. His older brother Colby, who was an assistant coach for PCA this season, made the all-star team in his senior season. Taylor said making it himself allowed him to keep his head up at family gatherings.

“I figured if I didn’t make it, I’d catch hell at the house,” Taylor Rushing joked.

Morgan was a two-year starter who led the team in hitting in 2014, dropped off to just a .283 average this year, but had his best performance of the season in one of his final games.

In Game 2 of a first-round playoff series with Sylva-Bay, Morgan pitched 10 innings. PCA wound up winning that game, 7-6, but lost Game 3 and the series.

The realization that it was a memorable performance in what could be his final high school game wasn’t lost on him. Despite a pitch count that was closer to 200 than 100, and the aching arm to go with it, he had a broad smile on his face every time he came to the dugout.

“After the fourth inning, I was like, ‘It’s going to be a long game.’ Then we got some momentum and I didn’t feel it. It was all adrenaline,” Morgan said. “They stopped telling me how many pitches I threw after the ninth inning. I was at 168, and I threw about 12 in the 10th inning.”

While Rushing, Lyons and Morgan were staples of PCA’s lineup for several years, Daffron was a one-year wonder with the program.

He started his baseball career at PCA, transferred to Vicksburg High in 2011 and was a starting infielder in 2014, then moved back to PCA last summer. A coaching change and the chance to be around old friends for his senior year brought him back, he said.

“It was probably my best year,” Daffron said. “We had a head coach that got a new job, and I thought about my old buddies and figured I’d help them out.”

Baseball is Daffron’s first love, but Morgan joked that coming back to PCA also meant he had to play other sports for the small school.

“I told him if he couldn’t play football, he couldn’t play baseball,” Morgan said.

Daffron did play football, as well as basketball. During baseball season he hit .304 and scored 22 runs. Like Morgan, he also provided a solid arm in the pitching rotation.

And, like his teammates, he’s heading on to the future after one last game together.

“It’s a good feeling going out there at least one more time with them,” Morgan said, before adding with a laugh, “It’s the first team I’ve been on where I like most of them.”