{"id":14276,"date":"2023-06-11T18:10:59","date_gmt":"2023-06-11T22:10:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.13thregionmedianetwork.com\/?p=14276"},"modified":"2023-06-11T18:14:36","modified_gmt":"2023-06-11T22:14:36","slug":"welcome-home-state-champs-whitley-county-baseball-program-makes-history-with-39-win-season-and-state-championship-victory","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.13thregionmedianetwork.com\/?p=14276","title":{"rendered":"WELCOME HOME, STATE CHAMPS: Whitley County baseball program makes history with 39-win season and state championship victory\u00a0"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>WILLIAMSBURG \u2014 Jeremy Shope and his Whitley County Colonel baseball team received a standing ovation when they completed their trip from Lexington to the Whitley County High School baseball field Sunday.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Colonels, fresh off of bringing home the baseball program\u2019s, and 13th Region\u2019s, first-ever state baseball championship, were greeted by tons of fans wearing their state championship T-shirts.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cI\u2019m speechless. I love the 13th Region,\u201d Shope said. \u201cI was a young kid in Harlan, Kentucky with a coal minor father, long ago. I fell in love with the game of baseball playing in Harlan Little League. Getting back here in the 13th Region all of these years later, it\u2019s special to me, it\u2019s special to our region. It\u2019s awesome. It\u2019s awesome.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cToday is a special day,\u201d he added. \u201cI don\u2019t know any other way to describe it. For the boys to pull this off all year long, and in the biggest moments, says a lot for our program, and a lot for our alumni. Our kids understood the ground work had been laid, and they believed and got there.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Whitley County\u2019s state championship run saw the Colonels win a program-best 39 games, capture the Kentucky 2A, Section 7 championship, and finish runner-up in the Kentucky 2A\u2019s State Tournament before winning the state\u2019s biggest championship on the biggest stage \u2014 Kentucky Proud Park.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cThis group is coachable, they have grit, and they have the will to win,\u201d Shope said of his team\u2019s state championship run.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Senior Mason Croley, who finished the 2023 season with a 14-1 mark said he didn\u2019t know how to put into words of his team\u2019s run to the state championship\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s hard to express \u2026 but it\u2019s a great day to be a Colonel, and a great day to be in Williamsburg,\u201d he said.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>State tournament Most Valuable Player Grant Zehr said the trip home was a \u201cspecial day.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cEverybody is happy, and this is one of the happiest places I\u2019ve been. I\u2019m a senior, and I don\u2019t want to leave \u2014 wish I could stay, but I can\u2019t.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>It marked the first time a Whitley County High School sports program won a state championship since the girls\u2019 basketball team won the state championship in 1985.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Colonels also became the first \u201c606\u201d team to carotids the baseball state championship since Boyd County accomplished the feat in 2001. Paintsville won in 1990, East Carter in 1984, Somerset in 1974, Ashland in 1966, 67, and 68, and Prestonsburg in 1948.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cIn Kentucky you have one class, you play against every school in Kentucky,\u201d Shope said. \u201cIt\u2019s a single-elimination tournament, so every game is huge. 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