End Of The Season

The Legion Post 366 baseball season came to a close this past weekend with 2 losses at the State tournament in Garden City. They started out well with a hard fought extra inning first game victory. Brian pitched the frst 5 innings and did very well. He only allowed 2 hits and 1 earned run, while striking out 4.At the plate, he was 2 for 2 with a walk.

Unfortunately, the ball didn't bounce their way in the next two games. They lost a heatbreaker in 10 innings in the second game, and then got bounced out of the tournament in the third game in another close one. We had runners at 2nd and 3rd with one out in our last at bat, but a line drive out and a strike out ended the game and the season. Brian played 3rd base and got to start a rare triple play by fielding a hot grounder, stepping on third, throwing to second and then relayed on over to first. They got a WOW award for that play!! He was also awarded the MVP for the game for his efforts at third. He had 4 really good plays from there. One was charging a bunt, scooping up the ball and throwing out the batter while on a dead run. There was a radio announcer there, and he said "man that kid has a cannon for an arm!"

For the summer season, he finished with a .358 batting average. Not too bad for a 16 year old playing with and against a lot of 18 year olds. I'm very proud of his pitching, as his ERA was only 1.81 (that's earned runs allowed per 7 innings of pitching).

He of course is sad that the season is over. I think he would play year round if he could!! Lori and I though are ready for a break. The first day of high school baseball started February 25th, so it has been a looong season.

Time to put away the baseball shoes and get out the gridiron cleats, here comes football season!!

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