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Mason Bodnar was supposed to be on this stage last year. He was on his way to start as the catcher in the second game of the Washington Catholic Athletic Conference championship series when a car crash left him concussed, forcing him to watch the biggest game of the season from the dugout.
When he stepped up to the plate Saturday with a chance to give St. John’s the lead, he was ready. With runners at the corners and two outs in the top of the seventh inning, Bodnar, a senior, blasted the first pitch he saw into the gap in left-center field. As the ping of his bat echoed throughout the Washington Nationals Youth Baseball Academy in Southeast D.C., two Cadets chugged home.
Bodnar stood on second base, smashing an imaginary sledgehammer into the ground to conduct a chorus of excited shrieks from his teammates. His double put the Cadets up by two, and the Cadets added on for a 5-1 win over Gonzaga that gave St. John’s its second consecutive WCAC title and its eighth in nine seasons.
Read more here: https://www.washingtonpost.com/sports/2024/05/11/st-johns-wins-wcac-baseball-title/
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