Marion lost the first game of a best-of-three playoff series to Tradewater Tuesday, making Wednesday's game at Gordon B. Guess Field a must win for the Bobcats.
Tradewater won Monday 11-1, but Marion lost more than the game. Outfielder Dustin Kennon will not only miss the rest of the postseason for the Bobcats, but he will probably be out of baseball for some time with an injury sustained Monday when he collided with the right field fence.
According to Marion Manager Steve Fowler, Kennon suffered a shattered right hip in the collision with one of the 4x4 outfield posts at Riverside Park. The 22-year-old Memphis-area native hit the post attempting to make a play on a deep fly ball in the bottom of the first inning. There is no padding on the posts that hold up the fence at the park and no warning track to let players closing on a ball know of the nearing fence.
Fowler said Kennon was taken from the game to Regional Medical Center in Madisonville, where he was kept overnight.
Game 2 of the semi-final series will be played at 7:05 p.m., Wednesday in Marion. If the Bobcats win, the final game of the series will be played Thursday at Riverside Park.
