INDIANAPOLIS – Penn’s perfect streak in baseball state championship games came to a heart-breaking end Saturday night.

The Kingsmen dropped a 4-3 final in eight innings to No. 2 Indianapolis Cathedral in the Class 4-A finale at Victory Field.

Evan Uhland cracked a solo homer to left field, his first roundtripper of the season, in the top of the eighth inning to lift his undefeated team to the title.

Uhland entered play Saturday batting just .160 on the season.

Cathedral finishes at 29-0 under first-year coach Ed Freije for the third state title in program history, joining the 2001 and 2007 Fighting Irish teams. Cathedral is just the fourth undefeated team in state history to win it all and the first since Norwell turned the trick in 2007.

Freije, who has also been the Cathedral girls basketball coach since 2013, is a 1999 Cathedral grad. He was an assistant coach from 2004-13.

Penn, which finishes at 27-7, took a 1-0 lead in the first after rain delayed the start of the game. Trevor Waite smoked a leadoff triple and then scored on an infield groundout.

Cathedral scored single runs in the second, fourth and fifth innings to build a 3-1 lead.

The Kingsmen, who were 4-4 in state final games under 30th year coach Greg Dikos, rallied to tie it with a pair in the home half of the sixth inning. Payton Kerr delivered an RBI double and Nate Lovisa then tied it with a sacrifice fly for Penn.

Uhland went 3-4 at the dish to pace the champions.

Nick Eaton went the distance on the hill for Cathedral. He allowed six hits, while striking out seven on 113 pitches to run his season mark to 11-0. Eaton, a senior southpaw, will pitch at Indiana University.

Chase McKenzie, who pitched the final four innings, took the loss for Penn. Kameron Koch went the first four innings for the Kingsmen.

Nolan Metcalf led the Penn offense with a 3-4 day at the dish.

Dikos, who won his 700th game in the sectional title game win over Elkhart Central, guided Penn to state titles in 1994, 1998, 2001 and 2015.

Waite earned the L.V. Phillips Mental Attitude Award for Class 4-A. Waite, who will play baseball at the University of Dayton, graduated with a 3.9 GPA. He was one of the editors for the school newspaper, the Pennant.