The night is probably still fresh in their minds.
In the first round of the District 3 Class AAAA playoffs third-seeded Red Land tried to win via the comeback route again. This time, the Patriots fell short in an 8-7 loss to upstart No. 14 seed Spring Grove at Memorial Field in Hershey.
Red Land trailed, 8-3, entering the seventh inning before rallying within one run. But, the Patriots stranded the tying run on third when Ben Dunmire struck out.
These days, that loss seems like a distant memory.
In the Pennsylvania American Legion State Tournament on Wednesday morning, Red Land Post 974 staged a huge rally at Owls Field in West Lawn to dump Plains Post 558, 13-12, in a wild elimination game.
Red Land Post 974, which has many of the same players that went 16-5 in the high school season, won the Cumberland County and Section 4 titles to earn a bid in the double-elimination state tournament.
The team, which has a 21-6 record, took another step Wednesday morning to erase the bad memories from that night in late May and they have a chance to make more noise Thursday. Red Land meets host West Lawn at 3 p.m. in an elimination game. West Lawn fell to Bristol, 8-1, Wednesday night.
A win Thursday and Red Land will be one of the final four American Legion baseball teams still playing in Pennsylvania. That's not a bad way to rebound from the sudden end of the high school season.
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