Glaspy squelches ’Tonka threat in tourney finale

Glaspy squelches ’Tonka threat in tourney finale

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“I was just trying to put a good barrel on the ball and that’s what happened.”

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When Excelsior Springs closing pitcher Klayton Glaspy had to finish his save opportunity against Winnetonka in the Excelsior Springs Tournament, he kept his cool. Glaspy and his fellow Tigers were leading 3-1 in the top of the seventh inning. But Winnetonka had a runner on first with one out. The junior right-hander responded by getting a strikeout and then serving up a ground out to ice the tworun, March 22 victory. “I wasn’t really worried at all,” Glaspy said. “I was more confident, knowing that … (they were) trying to get something going. The pressure’s on them, not on me.” Glaspy, who pitched all of the seventh, was among three pitchers utilized by Tigers coach Aaron Holst. Ryne Marcum started. The sophomore struck out four; yielded a run, a hit and a walk; and plunked one batter through two innings. For Marcum, the outing started “kind of rough, defensively.” Confidence that the Tigers are “always going ...

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