BAY CITY, MI – It took final-inning heroics to make a Day-1 dream come true. And Bay City All Saints had been preparing for that inning all season long. Trailing Mayville 3-0 coming into their final at-bat in the Division 4 district baseball final, the Cougars rallied in magical fashion, plating five runs to snare an unlikely 5-3 victory and capture the crown on its home field.
“This is everything we expected from Day 1,” first-year All Saints coach Brian Good said. “I told the guys when we first met that we were going to win this district. I told the people in my interview that we were going to win this district.
To come to this point and get it done like that is pretty amazing.” RELATED : Bay City area baseball district pairings, scores All Saints (20-11) advances to the regional semifinal at Kingston, taking on No. 9-ranked Ubly at 5 p.
m. Wednesday. For the longest time Friday, it didn’t appear that All Saints was going anywhere.
The Cougars was stuck on zero runs through six innings and were handed an extra dose of heartbreak when Mayville tacked on two runs in the bottom of the sixth to pad the lead to 3-0. But the Cougars still had big plans, plans they had formulated on the first day of practice – despite being mostly a team of freshmen and sophomores. “They play well above their age at this point,” said Good.
“To stay composed in a situation like that...
I told them before that last inning ‘It’s three runs, it’s doable. We’ve done this befo.