The school day is done, and Brock Rodden cannot wait to get his Wilson glove, get on the field with his father's high school team and field ground balls.
"As soon as seventh-period bell rang, I would take off as fast as I could with my best friend and my older brother," he said. "We would run from elementary, which is on one end of campus, all the way across to the baseball field. We would run right through the center-field gate and run all the way across the field as fast as we could."
Those memories provide the foundation for why Rodden, a 5-foot-9 sophomore second baseman, is enjoying a superb season for the Shockers.