By COLE REIF
Great Bend Post
GREAT BEND — Baze Hogan, from Great Bend, took first place at MLB’s Pitch Hit & Run
Team Championship in Kansas City Saturday, Sept. 18. Taking first in the
competition held at Kauffman Stadium, Hogan now awaits to find out if she
qualified for a trip to the MLB World Series.
The Major League Baseball youth skills competition is for children ages 7-14.
The children are scored on their pitching, hitting and running.
Hogan participated in a competition at the Great Bend Sports Complex in July
and had one of the top three scores among nine and 10-year-old girls that
competed in Kansas, Nebraska, Missouri and Arkansas. Because of this, she
qualified to compete at Kauffman Stadium, the home of the Kansas City Royals.
The top three scores in each age division from all the Team Championships at
MLB ballparks will receive an all-expense paid trip for two to the World
Series.
Hogan will wait to see if she finished in the top three across the country as
the MLB will announce the winners on the MLB Network Sept. 29.
Carson Umphres, also from Great Bend, competed in Kansas City in the 13 and
14-year-old boys division and placed second.