McKenzie baseball ends skip with 16-0 win at Gleason

McKENZIE, Tenn —  Monday’s rain meant an extra day off for most high school baseball teams, but for a team like the McKenzie Rebels who’ve lost three straight games after being ranked in the top-5 of class 1A just two weeks ago, they said getting back on the diamond couldn’t come soon enough.

Those three straight L’s include a 9-4 loss on the road last Friday in Medina against South Gibson.

Rebels Coach Chris Wall said he got some words of inspiration for the team, from the Sunday pulpit.

“He said we spend a lot of time focused on things that don’t last forever, and we have done that here lately,” Coach Wall said. “We’ve focused on things that don’t really matter. When we make an error, we dwell on it too much, or if we have a bad at bat, we’ve been dwelling on it too much. I talked to them about how that stuff don’t matter.”

“We get more in baseball. It’s not like football where you get to play every Friday and you gotta wait a whole week to do it again. Baseball we get to play the next day lots. Hope that that practice the last two days and that little spiel gets us on the right track.”

The Rebels did get things back in the right direction Monday night with a 16-0 win over Gleason.

The pair will play again Tuesday in McKenzie.