From 2-6 to district champs, the New Hampton baseball team accomplished two major goals Saturday night as the Chickasaws rolled to a 10-0 win over Sumner-Fredericksburg in a Class 2A district title game.
New Hampton came into Wednesday night’s Class 2A district semifinal game with one home run this season.
It departed the game with four home runs and a trip to the district title game Saturday.
The goals — finish the 2020 season with a winning record and win a district title — were set by the New Hampton baseball team after a very unlike-Chickasaw 2-6 start to the season.
Due to a positive COVID-19 test within the Turkey Valley baseball program, Trojan head baseball coach Dan Stepan announced Friday afternoon that all varsity and junior varsity TV baseball games have been cancelled for the rest of the season.
The path has been paved and the brackets are set.
Postseason baseball is just around the bend for the New Hampton Chickasaws.
Four regular season games remain and then the fun really starts.
Kacey Olson knows sooner or later she’s going to need to get a bunt down.
Her coach, though, said if her senior second baseman wants to keep hitting home runs after failing to execute a successful bunt, she’s fine with that.
There was lightning, thunder and a torrential downpour topped off with a barrage of hail that rained down on the softball field near Jackson Junction Wednesday night.
Dan Stepan couldn’t help but chuckle when asked about the milestone win his Turkey Valley baseball team gave him last Tuesday.
So coach, win No. 300, great players or old age?
“X” marks the spot.
For the New Hampton baseball team, that means a substantially sized bulls-eye rests on the back of every red and black Chickasaw jersey that takes to the field this summer.
They pitched some softball, they hit some baseballs and, heck, some kids even dressed up and went to prom.
Welcome back, normalcy, or at least, hello, “new normal.”
