Junction City held off a ninth inning rally by the Midwest A's to win the final game of the Cowdin Cup championship series 1-0 at Rathert Field and clinch the Mid Plains League title.
Midwest had runners at second and third with two outs in the top of the ninth inning but Brigade relief pitcher Jackson Hill struck out Brevon Lee to get the third out and close out the victory. With that win before more than 400 fans at Rathert Field, Junction City came back from a one-oh deficit in the series to win it two games to one.
2022 Manhattan High School graduate Cade Perkins started and pitched seven shutout innings for the Brigade. "My plan today was to get ahead of batters and not do too much. I did pretty well. I thought I kept my pitch count low which allowed me to go seven innings."
Jackson Hill came on to pitch the eighth and ninth innings for the Brigade. On the final out Hill said he threw two sliders that didn't quite make the corner and then a slider for a strike That was followed by a fastball that was fouled off and on the final pitch, also a fastball, Hill got the third out. He then found himself at the bottom of a pile of Junction City players on the mound. "Oh yeah there was, and there was some gold water poured on us." Hill added he was at the very bottom of that happy group of players.
This is the sixth Mid League Plains title for the Junction City Brigade in their 10-year history.