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By Leon G. Russ
HOMETOWN NEWS
Chesnee seniors Colby Painter and Jordan Garrett were team leaders throughout the year and they did their utmost to get the Eagles back to the Region 2-IIA state championship game this year.
To do so they would have to get past a Broome team that had their number in the regular season, taking all three contests.
The Eagles traveled to Broome for a playoff battle on Wednesday, May 4 needing to take two games from a team they hadn’t beaten to advance.
Painter and Garrett took it upon themselves to accomplish a difficult task and put the team on their backs as they took the first game 5-4.
Garrett pitched a complete game and blasted two two-run homeruns; the second knotted the game at four.
Painter launched a no doubt homerun deep into the trees beyond the right field fence to lead off the seventh and give the Eagles a 5-4 lead.
Painter said, “It looked like it was going foul. I was praying the wind would blow it back in.” He added, “I was just trying to make contact, I knew Garrett was on a hot streak and I just wanted to get on base.”
For the rest of the story, read this week’s Chesnee Tribune.
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