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Solon beats Kuemper, 5-2
This might have been the hardest Brandon Shulista threw anything all day.
“I was pretty pumped up,” the Solon pitcher said after stabbing a bullet of a comebacker to end Saturday afternoon's Class 2A state championship baseball game. ”That line drive really hurt my hand, actually. Just a huge adrenalin rush.”
Shulista stood there temporarily stunned after the reflex catch gave his school its first state baseball title, 5-2, over Carroll Kuemper at Principal Park. Then in a sudden flash of unbridled emotion, Shulista took off his glove and fired it into the ground.
A celebratory dogpile soon ensued near the mound, with Shulista on the very bottom.
Solon's Nick Day tags Kyle Pudenz of Kuemper at second base in the Class 2A baseball championship at Principal Park in Des Moines on Saturday, July 31, 2010. (Cliff Jette/SourceMedia Group)
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