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 It may be a case of having just too much to do at Pok-O-MacCready, while the opponent focused on winning at baseball. “They had practiced like two times a day, every day,” said Jason Veitch, a member of Pok-O’s older team. “We had only one practice, so we didn’t do as well as we could.” Indeed, Veitch and his teamates have spent the past several days in classes, on wilderness trips, playing S.H.L., and in section activities.
The result of that programming dilemma was a couple of losses to Camp Lincoln Tuesday afternoon.
At Lincoln, the Pok-O-MacCready older boys and girls scored in the top of the second inning to cut into an early 2-0 deficit. The run came on a Doug Fischer single that drove in Spencer Ivey. It would be Pok-O’s only tally in a 22-1 shellacking. Veitch, who added a ground rule double, looked at the bright side. “It was cool how at one point we had an all French outfield (1 boy and 2 girls)!”
At Pok-O, a much closer contest ensued. The Pok-O-Moonshine Intermediates  took a 4-2 lead over Lincoln, thanks in part to a RBI triple by Sebastian Moody. In the seventh, and final inning, the home team yielded five runs to drop a 7-4 decision. “Compared to last year,” said Moody, “both teams were improved. I’m proud of the Pok-O team because we did not have many ‘subs’, but were still able to play hard.”
For much of the game, Pok-O was anchored by the stellar pitching of Riley Hollis and Aidan Santiago. “It was awesome,” Santiago said of the game. “Everyone got a chance to play; some at positions they hadn’t played before.”
Concluded Intermediate team coach Will Pole: “The spirits were high. It was the best performance by a Pok-O team I’ve ever seen in my proud two-year tenure at camp!”
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GREASE IS THE WORD
