state championship in the bottom of the 7th his senior year. As I hugged him after the game I expected him to be totally distraught. But he just looked at me and told me he did all he could and gave it his absolute best and that’s all he could do.

He is as competitive of a kid as any I have known. For him to realize that he could live with the results as long as he did his best was a lesson good old dad is still learning.