It was the game of a lifetime for Harbor Creek baseball player Keven McQueeney.
The senior first baseman/third baseman entered Wednesday’s game against General McLane with no homers and three RBIs in the Huskies’ first 16 games this season. He had never hit a homer as a varsity player.
In three amazing innings, that all changed.
McQueeney homered in each of the next three innings on the way to finishing with three homers and eight RBIs in the Huskies’ 17-5 victory.
He started the onslaught with a three-run homer in the Huskies’ nine-run third inning. He then hit a solo homer in the fourth before blasting a fifth-inning walkoff grand slam that ended the game by virtue of the 10-run rule.
Coach Tim McQueeney, Keven’s father, said the first two homers were hit “pretty darn well” over the short left-field fence at Harbor Creek. The grand slam was hit “almost to straightaway center,” he said.
The game was one of the most satisfying of Tim McQueeney's 31-year coaching career, 16 of which have been with the Harbor Creek varsity.
“It’s a great feeling as a father and a great feeling as a coach. To combine the two is probably as good a feeling as I’ve had in all my years of coaching,” he said. “Most of all I was happy for him, He’s a hard worker and a good kid.”
-- Jeff Kirik