A Good Way to Go Out

A Good Way To Go Out
At Senatobia High School, sports is one of the most important things. To most people, it’s even more important than education. I played baseball at Senatobia, and my junior year we won the State Championship. Everybody wants to repeat a championship, and my senior year we were in the 2nd round of the playoffs and I came through in the clutch for what might have been my greatest moment in sports.
It was in late April and the sun was shining, a great day for baseball. We were playing our hated rivals, the Amory Panthers. In the playoffs it was known that we couldn’t beat them at their field, and they couldn’t beat us at ours. We had gone to their place the first game and been beat, 11-1, so when we came back to our field two days later, we were facing elimination. We had taken the lead, 8-7, in the top of the sixth when I came up to lead off the bottom half of the inning. I was 0-2 at the plate, so I knew I had to come through to help win the game a...