Upon Further Review

Who says the Little Giant baseball team is still looking for swagger?

With veteran coach Jim Critzer looking for someone to step up and walk with an air of cockiness that comes hand in hand with playing baseball, freshman Drew DeMoss teamed with Joseph Lucas (a perfect 3-0 on the mound so far this season) and chucked a one-hitter in the Giants’ 10-0 win over Broadway on Friday. It would have been a no-hitter, but a hot shot went just out of the reach of Jay Thompson. Forget about that for a second folks, because the Little Giants, once again, played great defense and look to be erasing a lot of the fears that came with their two-game, nine-error performance during the first week of the season.

“[We] just had a good ball game and played great defense,” Critzer said. “We had a lot of ground balls …” And nine putouts thanks to those grounders. So, yeah, looks like defense won’t be a problem anymore for the Little Giants. And, by the looks of it, swagger shouldn’t be either.
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When he slapped R.E. Lee leadoff man Ryan Shull with an inside pitch, you could have heard the collective groan of Giantdom from the other side of Afton Mountain.

But Waynesboro starter Jeremy Hahn quickly recovered, induced two Lee batters into easy outs and took care of another himself with his first strikeout of the game.

You heard the sigh after that wacky, wild first inning that began somewhere in the third circle of hell for Hahn, but by the seventh the Giants were in heaven with their second straight Southern Valley win and the added boost of confidence that comes with it.
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So it’s Spring Break and with no local sports happening until later today after the long weekend, what’s an all-local, daily sports blogger to do?

Well, the same thing all bloggers do when they have nothing to write about — time to dip into the e-mails and comments with the hopes that they can hold the blog together for just one day. Pinch your nose, we’re diving in.
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You don’t step on Superman’s cape.

You don’t spit in the wind.

You don’t wear an authentic Yankee jersey into the heart of Boston.

And, when you have Turner Ashby baseball on the ropes you totally, unequivocally and with authority, have to slam the door on the perennial state power. These are all things you need to know in life.
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The only time the interview got serious was when Jacob Hutchinson thought about his four-year career as a football player at Riverheads High School. Forget about Hutch and Heizer heading to Bridgewater.

That’s when the laughing stopped.

“I could go on forever,” he said.

Go ahead, Hutch. We got all day.
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