It might not have looked like much when the Lancaster baseball team put together a two-run rally in the top of the fifth inning in a Section VI quarterfinal contest at Williamsville North. After all, the Redskins still trailed by three runs at the end of that inning and ended up losing the game, 9-4.
The result might not have been desirable. But that was the kind of effort summed up exactly what this Lancaster team is all about.
“That’s what I love about this team, they always bounce back,” Lancaster coach Mark Dalfonso said. “These kids never folded the tent. I’ll tell you, I love this team, they never quit.”
Lancaster finished the regular season at 9-5 overall and 8-4 in ECIC-I. Lancaster heated up at the right time, entering the Section VI playoffs having won six of the final seven contests of its regular season and then beating West Seneca West in the playoff opener.
“This was a great season,” Dalfonso said. “These kids played fantastic; they have never been out of a game all year long.”
The Redskins will lose an assortment of talented seniors to graduation, including pitcher/first baseman George Weber, catcher Derek Braun, first baseman Shane Meegan and centerfielder Kyle Taylor The group may be gone but they will not soon be forgotten by the program.
“They’re all classy kids, they all grey up,” Dalfonso said. “They learned more than just baseman and that’s really what our goal is – even though we do like to win.”
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