Star sports reporter Michael Lev revisits the highs and lows of another season on the Little League diamond.
What I’ll miss most about coaching my son Austin’s Cactus Little League team is those rides to the park to get the field set up. We usually would try to arrive 10-15 minutes before everyone else. We’d lug equipment — buckets of baseballs, catcher’s gear, hitting nets, sometimes even the bases themselves — from the car to the dugout. Exciting, huh?
People are also reading… It was an incredibly fulfilling experience, despite a heartbreaking conclusion that I’ll get to in a bit. And it wasn’t the end! Our 50/70 team — the 50 refers to the distance between the plate and the mound, the 70 the distance between the bases — had a legit chance to go to the State Tournament. All we had to do was defeat Copper Hills — the only other District 12 league playing 50/70 — in a best-of-three series.
And then ... we fell behind 7-0 after the first half-inning. Ugh. It felt like we’d been punched in the gut.We responded with five runs in the bottom of the first. Empire counterpunched in the fourth, making it 12-6. We made it 12-10 ... then 12-12. We trailed by a run, 14-13, entering the bottom of the seventh.
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