When Nick Perfitt leaves home Saturday to play in the opening round of the American Legion baseball state tournament, he faces one of the longer road trips of any of the participants from around Maine.
And he plays for one of the home teams.
The recent Houlton High School graduate has made the 120-mile trip down Interstate 95 throughout the summer to continue his baseball career with Quirk Motor City, one of three Zone 1 Legion programs in Greater Bangor, along with Bangor Coffee News and R.H. Foster of Hampden, that will be in the eight-team state tournament field.
Perfitt has made all of his team’s 20 games and missed just one practice to date, and he plans to make the daily runs from Houlton to Bangor — about 1 hour, 45 minutes one way — for as long as his team stays alive in the double-elimination state tourney that runs through next Wednesday at Husson University in Bangor.
Quirk Motor City, runner-up to Bangor Coffee News in the Zone 1 tournament, opens state tournament play at 10 a.m. Saturday against Zone 3 (southern Maine) runner-up Coastal Landscape of Portland.
To read the rest of “Road trips no deterrent for Houlton baseball standout,” an article by contributing Bangor Daily News staff writer Ernie Clark, please follow this link to the BDN online.
