Every once in a while the planets align, everyone is holding their mouth just right, and something beautiful happens on the baseball field. It was over faster than you could bat an eye, but when Averick Rogers and Russ Hamm hooked up on the double play that took two runners out of scoring position and replaced them with the first two outs of the inning you could almost see the morale drain out of the Luverne players and flood into the opposing dugout to rejuvenate the Eagles. When asked about it after the game, GHS head coach Chad Dube made no bones about it, it was the play that won the game for them. And as a coach, it was nice to see some of that time drilling defense, defense, defense into his players heads turn into mark in the win column.
Repetition is key in baseball.
There are so many small skills that you have to work on, without repetition you can't get better. Baseball instinct is one of the things that we've lacked, but with the experience and with the repetitions we're starting to get it. You have to expect those plays to start happening more often. It's like your body is moving on cruise control and every action is not your own. You could tell by the grins on the two player's faces that all the work in practice finally made sense.