With fellow Linn Countian Nathan Cupp of Marceline catching him, Conner Fletcher of Meadville fires a sixth-inning pitch during last Saturday’s Chillicothe Mudcats college-level baseball game again the Nevada Griffons at Chillicothe’s “June” Shaffer Memorial Park Stadium. After a teammate’s fielding error to start the inning prevented Fletcher from having a 1-2-3 frame, a 2-outs, 2-runs double tied the contest, which Nevada subsequently won 6-4 with two runs in the eighth. Fletcher, who attends State Fair Community College at Sedalia, worked only the sixth inning, allowing no earned runs. (Butch Shaffer/LCL PHOTO)
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