After the cancellation at Lyon College, the Arkansas Baseball Academy played a doubleheader against the Arkansas Express playing 2 nine inning games. The two organizations agreed to play a showcase style game, which would theoretically showcase the skill of each player off to the Arkansas Tech coaches. After the first game, the showcase style of play seem to work okay, but by the middle of the second game it became evident that the showcase style game really doesn't work.
The one thing we learned from that experience is that we will never attempt to do style of play again. We feel that it is better to play the game of baseball because we felt that we lost teaching points of the game and lost the focus of just having fun playing baseball.
All-in-all, the players looked good and the Arkansas Tech coaches were very complementary toward the players of the Arkansas Baseball Academy. We definitely would like to thank Coach Dawson and Coach Titus from Arkansas Tech for being gracious enough to allow us to play on their field.
Next up: Saturday, October 3rd at Crowder Junior College, Neosho, Missouri; Sunday, October 4 at University of the Ozarks.
"A life not for others is not a life" - Coach John Wooden
