This has to be just about the best way to go out with a bang.
Jacob Eason loves two sports, but he knows that his future is going to come on the football field. He is scheduled to graduate from Lake Stevens High in Washington come December 2015, and enroll at Georgia shortly thereafter.
That means that the 2015 Lake Stevens baseball season was his last on the diamond, and when it came time to officially wave goodbye, Eason didn’t disappoint. In Lake Stevens’ final game of the season, a state playoff contest against Pullayup, Eason came to bat in the top of the seventh, with the Vikings trailing 8-1.
Barring a miracle, Eason knew that he wouldn’t come to plate again … ever … so he delivered a monstrous homer to right field. Emphasis on monstrous. No, the moonshot didn’t get Lake Stevens back in the game, but it did underscore just what a talent Eason was in baseball and football.
And hey, if football doesn’t work out? His final salvo can be one more thing for scouts to consider in the rearview mirror three years from now, when Eason would again be eligible for the MLB entry draft.