The 2008 spring season at Northern has begun! An off-and-on rain threatened to
dampen the occasion but couldn't kill the enthusiasm of opening night. New Northern
president Allen McMullen introduced last year's 3 state championship
teams from Northern: the 10-11 boys, 10-11
girls, and Junior girls. After all of this
year's 51 teams were introduced, the season officially kicked off with four games.
The first game of the night saw the Major girls Shock
defeat the Vipers 14 to 0. Ashley Worthington
scored 3 runs for the Shock. In C-Ball action,
the Braves defeated the Tigers
13 to 10. Stephen Broom was the winning pitcher for the B-Ball
Yankees who defeated the Braves 8 to 6 in 5 innings.
In tonight's A-Ball game, the second batter of the game, Stephen Fortenberry
(HR, double, single, HBP), went yard for the Reds
and behind starting pitcher Michael Rossi took an 11-2 lead into
the bottom of the fifth inning. But the lead didn't hold as Troy Gilliland
scored the winning run on a hit by Phillip Hamric and the Blue
Jays got the 12-11 come-from-behind victory.
