Most of his face covered to protect it from the day’s cold and wind, Marceline High School’s Tanner Sayre starts to swing at a second-inning pitch during the Tigers’ April 7 2-1 home win over Brookfield. Two days later, Sayre had a home run that gave his team an early 1-0 lead at Macon, but the host club roared back to win, 14-1. (Paul Sturm/LCL PHOTO)
While the scene was shifted, the story played out very similarly last Thursday when Marceline and Brookfield teams met in high school baseball for only…