Pittsburg Post 64 played late into Father’s Day, closing out the Pittsburg Legion/Fort Scott CC Classic at JayCee Ballpark with a Sunday night doubleheader against the Mount Vernon 39ers and the KC Yankees.
Post 64 played like two different teams, losing 8-1 to Mount Vernon and winning 10-3 against the KC Yankees for the split.
“The first game, we were just really flat and had no energy,” Post 64 head coach Mike Watt said. “We had no energy at all and it showed up in the game. We weren’t mentally ready to play. We weren’t very good in that first game.
“We’ve talked to them a lot about it’s easy to have energy when things are going well. You’ve got to have the energy even when things aren’t going well and that’s how you fight through those tough periods. We’re a very talented team. We’re a veteran team. We just have got to work on our energy level. If we go into Omaha with not much energy, it’s going to be tough to win. We’re going to have to be focused and ready to go.”
"She made all three of us look better than we were," quipped Tom Bryant, the second of those PSU presidents. "...Nobody loved the university or was more loyal to the university than Joan in her career. She'll always be loyal to Pittsburg State, I'll tell you that."
Eight Pittsburg High School students made history Saturday as they left for the National Forensic League National Speech and Debate Tournament in Birmingham, Ala.
Steady, heavy rain late Saturday afternoon forced the suspension of the second day of play in the Pittsburg Legion/Fort Scott CC Classic at JayCee Ballpark.
Pittsburg Post 64 was scheduled to play the late game Saturday night against the Andover Trojans and the early game this morning against the Neosho Wildcats. Now, weather permitting, Post 64 will play a 6:45 p.m. game tonight against Neosho.
JayCee Ballpark was recently flooded in the outfield (especially in right field) and the first base dugout, forcing the traditional season-opening Wood Bat Tournament to be rescheduled and moved across state lines to Neosho, Mo., where Post 64 played Sunday games against Kickapoo and Carthage.
Post 64 enters today with a 5-3-1 overall record after eking out a 6-5 win over the Mount Vernon 39ers and ending in a 3-all stalemate with Kansas Crush Elite on Friday.
Nicole Meyer-Foresman’s “Tribute to the Amazon Army” bucket didn’t actually weigh in at 16 tons, nor was it full of No. 9 coal, but that didn’t stop SEK Art Fest volunteers from humming a few bars of the classic tune as they unloaded the bucket and placed it on the west side of Broadway just north of Second Street Friday morning.
The bucket, which is done in clay, actually is closer to 300 pounds, but portrays a notable piece of Southeast Kansas coal mining history and calls to mind the song with its story as well as its weight.
Elvis will be back in the building at 7 p.m. June 23 at Pittsburg Memorial Auditorium.
Pittsburg Post 64 came out of the first day of the Pittsburg Legion/Fort Scott CC Classic at JayCee Ballpark with an undefeated record, 1-0-1, after games against the Mount Vernon 39ers and the Kansas Crush Elite.
Post 64 held on tightly for a 6-5 win in the opener Friday morning and missed opportunities cost Post 64 a sweep against the Crush Elite, a game which ended in a 3-all stalemate after both teams gobbled up the given 2-hour time limit.
"We won a game and tied a game, which is unusual," Post 64 head coach Mike Watt said. "That's something we don't normally do. I thought the first game, we jumped out big, got a lead and we just sat back and didn't finish the game. We let them creep back in and the second game was just a lot of missed opportunities. We had runners at second and third (Cody Grilz and Blake Vail in the bottom of the fourth) with no outs and couldn't even put a ball in play. We had three strikeouts in a row and in that situation, we've just got to compete better."
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