CLEVELAND -- Six area high school teams received the opportunity to play at Progressive Field on Friday as part of the Hardball Classic.
Made possible through funding by the Cleveland Indians Charities (CIC), the 12th annual installment of the event featured three games: Rocky River vs. Eastlake North, Chagrin Falls vs. Bay and North Royalton vs. Saint Ignatius.
Chagrin Falls coach Mike Sweeney -- in his 15th year with the school -- admitted that he had been thinking about the opportunity to manage a game from the Progessive Field dugout all day at school. But the bigger thing, he said, was the experience for the kids.