Warhawks gain go-ahead run stealing home
SHEFFIELD – With a tie ball game, two outs and the bases loaded, West Fork baseball coach Lance Thompson went for a gutsy move and called for a straight steal of home against AGWSR.
It worked to perfection, as the Warhawks got the go-ahead run and all the momentum against the Cougars in an eventual 8-1 victory on Thursday, June 13.
With Kellen Cameron at the plate, Mitchell Halloran was seen sprinting down the line while Luke Starr was still in his wind-up, Cameron narrowly got out of the way as Halloran slid in ahead of the tag of Brody Roder.
“That was just something I told the runner to pay attention to at third base and the opportunity for us to try it there,” Thompson said...
The full story appears in both June 20 print editions of the Sheffield Press and Pioneer Enterprise.
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