Spring City Legion Baseball 2010

Spring City’s Senior American Legion baseball team gave the area a lot of excitement and thrills during the summer of 2010.
The Red Sox captured their first Chester County League title since 2004, went on to capture the Region Three crown and then their first-ever Pennsylvania State Tournament at Bear Stadium in Boyertown.
From there, Spring City traveled west on Route 422 past Reading to West Lawn for the Mid-Atlantic Region Tournament. The Red Sox went 1-2 there to end their season at 37-9 overall.
In both the Pa. regional and state tournaments, Spring City dropped its opening game, only to fight back and win five straight games in the losers’ bracket to earn the championship. Their final game of the season was a 9-8 setback to Newark, Del., last Saturday afternoon at Owls Field at Ted Palka Park.
In the contest, Spring City rallied from a 7-3 deficit to score five runs in the top of the ninth inning to take a short-lived 8-7 lead. In the bottom of the ninth, the Diamondbacks scored two runs on a two-out throwing error to post the victory.
The Spring City coaching staff of manager Jamie Scheck and assistant coaches Mike Walton, Mike Heffernan and Jason Sampat are to be congratulated for their efforts in working with the boys throughout the summer months.
All the players deserve credit, too, for filling their roles on the team. It was a young team, to boot, since just one player (centerfielder Dan Larkin) is the lone 19-year-old on the ballclub who is not eligible to return next summer.