Huge congratulations to Coach Jeff Smoot and Strasburg on clinching the Bull Run District's regular season crown last night. Strasburg regularly wins the district and goes deep into the playoffs, but this year there were 5 players dismissed from the squad 3 games into the season for violation of team rules (one strike and off the team for possession or use of alcohol). The five players dismissed included 3 starters and all 5 were big contributors.
Coach Smoot pulled up 3 JV players and proceeded to keep on rolling. He's the only baseball coach the school has ever had since the inception of the program in the late 1970's, and has had only 1 losing season ever. He coaches/preaches good old fashioned fundamental baseball, everyone doing their job the right way all the time, and simply is successful, year in and year out. He abhors the limelight but is truly one of the best baseball coaches in the state, at any level.
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