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had a loose tooth and a busted lip, Walters sustained a knee injury that will keep him out for over a week.
The play was indicative of the Panthers’ early season woes. “We’ve had poor execution, we’re missing signals, and there’s no communication on the field or the bench. So far, we just don’t have that baseball intuition,” said Coach Leake. But he also expressed confidence the team would get it together after a few more games in time for the second half of the season and a strong finish in district competition.
Against Stonewall at home on Tuesday, April 17, the Panthers squandered numerous opportunities for the win before the eighth inning.
With the score tied at 12 the Generals combined a single, double, and triple for a three run lead. Then, afraid the game would be called due to darkness and the score would go back to the last complete inning (seventh), SJHS coach Mike Bocock told his players to commit the final three outs in a hurry so Rappahannock could bat and the game couldn’t be halted.
“Bocock must have forgotten the rule change two years ago that sought to keep teams from doing this. The ruling is: if a game is called because of darkness, it is picked up where it left off when play Continues,” Coach Leake explained. He said that the change was made to keep coaches from taking the game out of the players’ hands and waging
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