RICHMOND RALLIES
RICHMOND – Wyatt Covey made a game-saving play near the end of Richmond’s home opener that might have impressed baseball legend Willie Mays.
The Spartans were leading Lafayette County of Higginsville 8-7 with one out in the top of the seventh inning when Huskers first baseman Cade Limback came to bat. The sophomore slugger swatted a fly ball deep to left-center field that seemed destined to drop for an extrabase hit and put the Huskers in position to tie it or reclaim the lead.
Like Mays racing back in the Polo Grounds to make “The Catch” that robbed Cleveland’s Vic Wertz of an extra-base hit in the 1954 World Series, Covey raced back from his spot in center field toward the outfield fence and snagged the ball for the second out. Covey’s catch and his ensuing grab of a fly ball hit by Lafayette County senior Kelan Ernst finished Richmond’s one-run April 1 victory at Southview Park.
“We work on those all the time in practice; and I had one thing in mind starting the inning (and that…