Salter’s perfect throw home preserves Oakdale baseball’s win over Urbana

URBANA — It’s a play Oakdale left fielder Will Salter has practiced hundreds of times. But until the climactic finish of Monday’s baseball game with Urbana, he had never done it in a game. When the Hawks’ Tristan Vetter poked a seeing-eye single into shallow left field that deflected off two outstretched gloves, Salter charged up to grab the ball. With one runner already in and the tying run charging around third, he knew what he had to do.