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McFarland: Grant sets Bellevue University home run record in dramatic fashion

“It almost didn’t feel real to Logan Grant.

Up to bat in the bottom of the seventh inning against Dickinson State University on April 6, the Bellevue University utilityman got a hold of a Patrick Dietz offering.

He thought he had driven it to the gap to potentially tie the game 5-5.

However, the ball kept on sailing and, when it landed over the fence, Grant’s 14th home run of the season set the Bruins’ career mark at 45.

“There was a rush of emotions that hit me,” he told Alberta Dugout Stories: The Podcast.”

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Verge: Shaye McTavish carrying on a family (pitching) tradition

“The stakes were high for a young Shaye McTavish growing up in the McTavish family household.

Give it his all outside in an intense game of backyard baseball or inside at a Christmas family card game — or risk losing to his siblings in his hometown of Lethbridge Alta,

That’s where Shaye McTavish, who ranks second among Canadians in strikeouts in the NAIA this season, got his first taste of competition, and his first desire for victory.”

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