Baseball

Baseball is one of my favorite sports, other than soccer that I really enjoy. I have played varsity all four years of high school. I play outfield and sometimes end up being a designated hitter. I look forward to baseball every year because it's the one team that I have been a part of that has really connected. All the teammates have played together since we even started baseball. We all played together in tee ball, farm league, little league, middle school, and now high school. Also most of us played summer baseball together every year since tee ball.

Ever since my freshman year, we have been competing for an Eastern Maine Champoinship and a state title. If you really look at the big picture, every team is trying to do that right? Freshman year, we played in an Eastern Maine game and got ten ruled in the fourth inning in the rain. It was awful watching all the seniors cry. They worked so hard to be at the game and too lose was like a nightmare. Sophomore year, we made it to the quarter finals and lost to Dexter in the eleventh inning 6-5. It was such a hard loss for us because we fought so hard that game and couldn’t come out with the win when it mattered. Last year, we had a perfect season in Class C. We only lost two games to our one B school that we play every year so technically we had a perfect season in our divison. We battled all the way through the playoffs and made it to the Eastern Maine game again. Our team was predicted to win it all, Eastern Maine and States. We lost 1-0 to Stearns; I say we, but it was just the team because I had surgery on that day. I was so mad I missed that game.

This year is going to be the year the Bucksport Golden Bucks prevail. We will work hard every practice, play like we practice, and show every team we face that the Bucks don’t go down without a fight. We attempt to be the first team in Bucksport’s history to win a state championship.

“Play one out baseball. This is how we play.”

-         Rob Wadleigh