I couldn’t resist covering some baseball this spring, and the Williamsville East/South rivalry was one of the most exciting this season as the Flames and Billies fought it out for first place in Class A1 and then faced each other again in the playoffs on Monday, May 23, 2016. I asked a photographer to come and capture some moments from …
BASEBALL: Crosstown rivalry transpires into semifinals
CARROTS For Williamsville East baseball, it’s about carrots. It’s a term coach Jerry Gasz came up with, and the players aren’t sure of the meaning behind it, but they’ve gone along with it, and so far it’s worked. “At the beginning of the year, we set three carrots for ourselves,” Mike Steffan explained. “The first carrot was to win the …