Trailing 4-0 after one-half inning it wasn't looking good for the Logan High School baseball team.
Herbert Hoover, the defending Class AA state champs, seemed poised to beat Logan again in the regional title game for the second straight year and make a return to Charleston.
Gertz, though, put on a positive face, clapped his hands, turned to the Logan dugout and said, "It's a seven-inning game. Come on! It's not over!"
The veteran Wildcat mentor knows that that's not coaching rhetoric.
It's true.
Very true.
And how true it was as the No. 4-ranked Wildcats chipped away at the Huskies, eventually took the lead and went on to beat Herbert Hoover 10-5 to wrap up their first state tourney berth in two years.
With the win, Logan (24-9) won its seventh regional championship in the last nine years and secured its seventh state tournament berth in the 2000s decade.
Logan is to make its fourth state tourney appearance in six years as a Double-A school.
The Wildcats are headed back up to the Triple-A level next season and are hoping to exit the Class AA ranks with another state championship next week at Charleston's Appalachian Power Park
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