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Home / Blog / Johnstown-2 general manager walked through water to retrieve historic HR ball

Johnstown-2 general manager walked through water to retrieve historic HR ball

August 9, 2016

Paul Carpenter Capital Advisors GM/assistant coach Tayler Sheriff was determined to recover the baseball that one of his players hit out of Point Stadium in a AAABA Tournament semifinal victory over the Cleveland Blaze.

Sheriff made his way down the river wall and walked bare-footed through the shallow water of the Stonycreek River until he found the baseball nestled among a pile of rocks in the low water.

A night earlier, Patrick Ferguson was called on as a pinch-hitter with two outs in the eighth inning with Paul Carpenter trailing Cleveland by a run. The left-handed hitting Ferguson got all of a pitch and sent it flying over the right field fence, bleachers and past the rotunda. The three-run homer provided the winning runs in a 7-6 game.

The ball hit a wall outside the stadium and landed in the riverbed.

Sheriff presented the water-logged baseball to Ferguson after Paul Carpenter finished as national runner-up to the Zanesville Junior Pioneers.

The link to The Tribune-Democrat story on the river walk follows:

 

http://www.tribdem.com/sports/aaaba-home-run-sends-coach-on-river-walk-for-retrieval/article_968994e4-5c59-11e6-901d-0b62ed25c4ce.html

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