GREENVILLE – Greenville American Legion Post 140 baseball program was on display at Sater Heights Park in a Tuesday night game between the program’s 16U and 18U teams with the older Post 140 team coming out on top 8-1.
“There is not a lot of age difference between the two,” said Post 140 coach, Chad Henry. “This older team should win this game, they should handle it pretty easily but they came out here, they saw how good the younger team is.”
“They made the plays behind them but that younger team came out and they challenged them,” Henry added. “Eventually your talent is going to win out a little bit in this situation but I thought they held themselves really well.”
Post 140 18U tuned up for its Friday night American Legion District Tournament game with Sidney on the road at Piqua.
“As a hitter you don’t know if they are going to throw 30 or 110 but you have to get your timing there and that starts in the dugout,” Coach Henry said. “That starts from watching the AB (at-bat), from going up and being on deck and then stepping into the box, taking their shots on the pitches they want to hit and then if they get two strikes on them they have to adjust to hit the pitch they have to hit.”
The future a Greenville American Legion baseball is bright as the 2023 18U and 16U teams are young by most standards.
“We’ve played some of our best baseball here in the last two weeks,” noted Henry. “We’ve won a lot of games – we knew it would get there eventually. We knew it was going to be a struggle to start but they got better every game. The way we’re looking now we’re ready for Sidney on Friday.”
