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North repeats in City League baseball

BY JONATHAN LONG

The Wichita Eagle

Despite losing to Northwest in its final City League baseball game of the season, North won its second consecutive league championship. The Redskins finished 14-2 in the league while Northwest finished second at 13-3.

"It's always good when you can win a City League title," North coach Kyle Sanders said.

North's only other loss came at the hands of Bishop Carroll on April 14. Carroll had its own dreams of bringing home the league title but those were thwarted when North defeated the Golden Eagles in the rematch 9-0. At the time Carroll was on a seven-game win streak.

North beat Northwest in their first meeting .

Now with the City League title under their belts, the Redskins must put their focus on the Class 6A regional. North looked headed toward a possible No. 1 seed in the tournament, but with three straight losses -- two to Goddard and the loss to Northwest -- they are looking at a fifth seed with a 16-4 record.

Record breaker -- Maize senior Kurtis Schuyler broke the Maize record for career wins with 20. Schuyler is a three-year starter.

Schuyler started his career off solidly, winning a single-season record of nine games.

Quite a turnaround -- It wasn't quite worst to first, but what the Campus Colts baseball team did was pretty spectacular. Campus had an overall record of 5-14 last year. This season they are 15-3 and finished tied for first with McPherson for the Ark Valley-Chisholm Trail League Division II title.

Coach Bryan Clasen knew last season that this group would be headed for good things, as they dominated junior varsity play. It took them a season to get adjusted to play at the varsity level, but now they're ready to go and poised to make some noise in the Class 6A regional.