Outlaws Baseball

                                          Outlaws Baseball

                                                                       By Brett Huslig

     Baseball with the Outlaws was a good experience. The Outlaws are a local baseball team that plays 15 and under. We got 7th at state but we had one heck of a season. Our biggest guy, Jarrett, broke his arm at a football camp so he missed half the season. I played catcher, outfield, and pitcher. We had 8 pitchers that took turns pitching. We had practices on the college field with the college players a few times. For our last practice we had a Dinger Derby. I got 3rd place with 3 home runs. The winner had 6.

   At State we got 7th place. The games were close but we couldn't pull in the last few runs. In the final game I had 13 strike outs when I was pitching, 3 catches in the outfield, and the bases were loaded, 3 balls, 2 strikes, and 2 outs. I hit a slow roller into left field and everyone scored and I stayed on second. Now the score was 6-7, we were down by one. When the next pitch was thrown, I took off for third and the catcher threw it to third. I dove head first and was safe. The tying run at third and the best hitter on the team is up to the plate. He smashes one out past the left fielder, I scored, he made it to third. Next batter struck out, end of inning. Next inning, they score, we don't, games over.

     We ended State with a good game. We went 29-31 this season. Our last game of the season started at 11:00 AM and ended at 2:30 PM. It was a 3 and a half hour game and we all were exhausted. We had to stay at the field for pictures and to have a talk with Coach. We talked about if we will have the team next year because most of us are old enough to play for the Junior Legion team and play for the High School here. We finally decided to just wait for next year to decide if we will have the team again or not.