East Butler baseball players extend season
MANOR TWP, Armstrong County — If not for the uniforms they had on, it would’ve appeared that East Butler’s baseball players had been splashing about.
For a team that had played a disappointing game of Marco Polo for consistent competition for much of the summer, it was fitting. At the Freeport International Baseball Invitational, the group found exactly what it had been searching for.
“Today, we played a doubleheader, it was 90 degrees, there was no shade,” East Butler coach Jay Wagner said Thursday. “It looked like they just got out of the swimming pool afterwards, they were sweating so much.”
“We were all just drained from that first game, and that second game came around and it just pretty much wiped us all out,” outfielder and team captain Colton Dickinson said. “Our shirts were completely drenched and sticking to us.”
Zarian Finucan, a third baseman and pitcher, wasn’t about to let the heat ruin his enjoyment.
“It’s been, really, a lot of fun, just to play baseball,” he said. “Almost everyday, doubleheaders, it’s just fun going out there with your teammates.”
