Proctor Phantoms Baseball is in a drought and trying to get out.

The Proctor Phantoms baseball team is known for dominance and winning, but that hasn’t been the case so far for this year’s baseball team. The 3-9 Phantoms (as of 5/22) are trying to get back into the win column as they’ve lost to teams that they mercy ruled last year. 

One game that was the most thrilling was against West Rutland, that game is one to remember as both teams were putting their all into that game going back and forth and had to call the game off for darkness with the bases loaded and no one out.

After winning against Rivendell 11-10 on April 25, Proctor has shown that they can come back after being down by a lot, and can rally back to win games. There are 7 innings for a reason; the mercy rule issn't always needed. Proctor was known for mercy ruling every team that they could for the past two years. Games would be slow at first but after, it was all gas no brakes. But this year is a tough one for the baseball team and the years to come, because the Phantoms only have a few veterans, and the rest are newcomers who haven't played before.

Over the next two years of sports Proctor is going to be scrapping for players for soccer and baseball as they have the most positions in those sports. 

But back to this year. Proctor lost twice to Twin Valley, mind you Twin Valley formed a team 3 years ago. 

Another team that Proctor has beaten was Rivendell but barely, 11-10 in the 7th inning, with losing in the 3rd inning 8-0 then Proctor rallied back with a walkoff win off of Sheehe. Rivendell is a team that always caused problems for Proctor in the past, but has fallen off this year.

 Our rival West Rutland has been building their team for the longest time ever. They have had the same team for 2 years, and have built back to the best team in the SVL.

Another challenge for Proctor is injuries, four people on the team are injured and Senior Roy Gee might be out of the season for dislocating his shoulder when he slid back to second base after being picked off against Twin Valley, and was in a sling for a week,

“I did not think that this was going to be the outcome of the season, due to the injuries, I thought we were going to get SVL or even second place," Roy said.

 Overall Proctor was doomed to fall off after the classes of 2023 and 2024 graduated. We lost 5 veteran players each of those years. For baseball to survive, they will have to recruit players from other schools, but it could be just a matter of time until there will be no baseball and the field will be left in the dust to rot.