Wave Baseball Improving With Experience, Confidence
Grundy Returns Seven Starters

by Lloyd Combs
Sports Reporter   

     After years of being a pushover in the Southwest District, could this be the year Grundy starts to push back?
     The Golden Wave pushed a couple of the better programs in the league to the limit last season, including Abingdon in a 4-2 loss in the SWD tournament.
      Grundy has seven starters back, six of whom have played, and, in most cases, started, three or four years. The Wave, 4-13 overall and 1-11 in the SWD last year, are in a position to make a push this season. How much of one remains to be seen.
      Catcher Jeremy O'Quinn and first baseman Cody Cantrell are the only seniors in a starting lineup that includes three juniors, three sophomores and a freshman.

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     Grundy's Derek Hess and Jon Kelly earned second-team honors on the All-Southwest District boys basketball team for the 2009-2010 season, as selected by SWD coaches.
     Hess, a senior, and Kelly, a junior are part of a six-man Second Team.
     Golden Wave teammates Logan Boyd, Cody Justus and Ben Rife are honorable mention All-SWD picks.
     Marion senior Gavin Roe was named Southwest District Player of the Year. Graham's Glynn Carlock, Jr., was named SWD Coach of the Year.
     Joining Roe on the First Team are Jordan Bryan and Scott Brewster from Graham, Gunner McGee of Richlands and Jacob Hess of Abingdon.
      Some 43 players earned All-SWD nods out of the seven-team league, including at least eight players who were not fulltime starters. Graham had 13 players on the list, including 10 honorable mention selections.

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