Alumni wallop Loggers, 16-3, at Gehring Field
<p>Center fielder Andrew Haggerty and right fielder Cameron Burkes collided, allowing Head Coach Kelly Morford his two RBI single in the 16-3 alumni victory.</p>
<p>Coach Kelly Morford connects in the bottom of the second for a 2 RBI single. It was the Alumni over the Loggers 16-3 Saturday in the 7 inning contest.</p>
You can’t teach an old Logger new tricks… or something like that.
Saturday’s alumni game at Lee Gehring Field pitted the current Libby Loggers team against the ghosts of baseball past, and it was the old-timers with the big victory for the second consecutive year, 16-3.
The current Loggers might have got a taste of what they were dealing with in the first inning, when the alumni scored two runs, but it really didn’t sink in until the top of the second.
Head Coach Kelly Morford (an honorary alumni) smacked a fly to center-right. Center fielder Andrew Haggerty went for it. So did right fielder Cameron Burkes. Neither called for it and the two players collided as the ball plopped to the ground and two runs scored.
The impromptu slapstick routine wasn’t a sign of things to come, Morford said, but rather just a funny mistake on a day meant to bring the program some good times.
“It’s always fun to have the alumni come back,” Morford said. “And this is some of the best pitching we’ll see all year long.”
Colton Cannon, a recent Libby graduate and player at Spokane Community College, struck out five of his first six batters before he was subbed out, possibly to give the young guys a fighting chance.
“It was real nice to be back out here,” said left fielder Brandon Laffoon, who played for Libby from 2002-2005. “It’s one of those things… we got to show the young kids we still got it.”
Both teams committed an error and the current Loggers pitched by committee, with Luke and Andrew Haggerty, as well as Creede Garcia and Micah Germany spending time on the mound.
Germany, the honorary coach for the Loggers, pitched, caught and spent time in the dugout coaching on his busy Saturday. He was not disappointed with his coaching debut, however.
“We knew who the studs were, we just had a couple of guys out of position,” Germany said. “I was the bat boy for a few of these guys, and it’s good to get back out there and see them again.”
Next for the Loggers is the Big Bucks Tournament, June 21-24.