Duggins can’t pass on Alice Lloyd pitch
Dragons’ hardballer to become an Eagle
Clinton’s Sam Duggins recently signed his letter of intent to continue his academic and athletic career at Alice Lloyd College in Pippa Passes, Kentucky. Front row (from left): Rob Stacy (former head coach of Clinton High School Baseball), Sam Duggins, and Allen Childs (former assis- tant coach of Clinton High School). Back row: Kris Hicks (First Baptist Church, Youth Pastor), Katrina Duggins (mom) and Robert Duggins (dad). (photo:Dwayne Wilder )
But a text from former Clinton High School baseball Coach Rob Stacy changed all that.
“I was thinking it was over and I was sitting in my room one day and I got a text from Coach Stacy asking me if I wanted to pitch for Alice Lloyd,” Duggins said.
“So I went up there and I loved everything about the place and I got an offer and I took it right away,” he said.
Duggins made things official last week Thursday night when he signed his national letter of intent to play for the Eagles.
Stacy, who recently left Clinton to take the coaching job at West High School, got the word out that Duggins was signing and he returned for Duggins’ signing ceremony.
Duggins couldn’t have been happier. “He’s pitched me every year and he’s the reason I’m here,” Duggins said of Stacy.
“The coaches here know ball and they know what they’re doing,” he said. “They’re really good coaches. They’re not too nice to you in a good way. They’ll push you and they’ll make you work.”
Duggins will enter Alice Lloyd, a small school in Pippa Passes, Kentucky, as a business major. He has no career plans yet.
“I don’t know what I’m going to do after baseball, but I guess I’ll figure it out when I get there,” he said.