Sherwood senior Chris Green follows through on his game-winning single in the bottom of the eighth inning, giving the Warriors a 7-6 victory over C. Milton Wright for the Class 4A state championship Friday night at Ripken Stadium. Green, who had two fielding errors, also atoned with a single in the bottom of the seventh to force extra innings.
Years
from now, Sherwood High senior third baseman Chris Green's mind will drift back
to Friday night's Class 4A state championship at Ripken Stadium in Aberdeen, Md. It won't be
hard to remember the details of the evening because one particular instant
will burned into his consciousness.
It's
the moment when he drove in the winning run with a single in the bottom of the
eighth inning to give his team a remarkable 7-6 victory over C. Milton Wright
for the school's first ever baseball title. It comes a year after the Warriors
lost in the championship game, a year in which Sherwood was seeminly less equipped for a championship run.
Green
actually drove in his team's final two runs, including