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Travel team tunes up for Lexington

The Randolph County travel baseball team took home the state championship last weekend in Alabaster after coming back from an opening-round loss.

The tournament, Randolph County’s last tune-up before the World Series in Lexington, S.C., featured several prominent travel teams from across the state.

Randolph County lost the opening game to TPSA out of Huntsville by one run. But the local boys had no intention of going home without the title.

“They knew what they had to do to take care of business and they did it,” head coach Jeffery Henderson said.

After the loss, Randolph County streaked through the remainder of the tournament, beating the North Alabama Scorpions out of Huntsville, Bases Loaded out of Decatur and Mountain Brook out of Birmingham before reaching the semifinals.

Randolph County trounced Oak Mountain in the semifinals 21-3 to go on to face the Westpoint Warriors out of Cullman for the championship.

Henderson said the bats lit up and carried the boys through the title game. They defeated Westpoint 10-1.

“Well it was just the icing on the cake for the boys,” Henderson said.

Randolph County will go on to the USSSA World Series in Lexington, S.C. July 15-22.

“I think we’ll represent the state of Alabama real well,” Henderson said. “That group of boys, that’s a heck of a group.”

Randolph County’s Chase Hall cocks back to launch a throw home at a recent practice.

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