GROTON - Tabor is back on top of Class B baseball for the first time in 36 years.
After numerous strong finishes through the years, Tabor finished the task Tuesday, winning the American Legion Class B State baseball championship for the first time since 1985 with a 10-6 win over Redfield at Locke-Karst Field.
"It feels great," said Tabor coach Gary Kortan. "We talked about it before the game, we’re not only going to win it for ourselves, but for all the kids that went through our program prior and came up short. This means a lot."
Tabor finished the tournament undefeated and handed Redfield its only two setbacks in the tourney.
Unlike Saturday's game in which Tabor could not quite breakthrough against Redfield, the second meeting was a different story. Tabor erased an early deficit with four runs in the third inning and never trailed after that.
"In the first game we held the dam so to speak. Even here, we held it for a while. That four spot in the third kind of probab
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