He raced up I-95 with the best excuse ever to get out of a speeding ticket: My wife is having a baby. Now.
So it was for Centreville baseball coach Jonathan Frohm, who had to leave moments before his team’s Hanahan Invitational Tournament game on April 12th in Charleston, S.C. when he got the call his wife was in labor almost two weeks early.
He was pulled over twice en route and let off with a warning both times. But little more than eight hours later Frohm managed to reach the hospital at 3:45 a.m. just 20 minutes before his son, Mark, was born.
“It made for a week none of us will ever forget,” Frohm said.
Despite finishing 1-3 at the tournament, the last two games without their coach, it was a good week for Centreville’s players as well. The Wildcats lost, 2-0, to Wando (S.C.), then ranked No. 13 in the nation by USA Today. The Wildcats also dropped a 4-3 decision in nine innings.
But there were plenty of positives for Centreville (6-6, 2-3 Concorde District) to build upon entering tonight’s district showdown with Herndon (7-3, 2-3). Senior right-hander Jack Zeltner gets the start for Centreville. He is 2-1 with a 2.60 ERA and has recorded a save. Zeltner, one of five different starters to earn a win for the Wildcats this season, pitched just 18 innings as a junior before dislocating his elbow while covering home plate in a game against Hylton on April 7 of last year.
