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Blue Raider Pitcher Austin Cheeley Honors Late Father in Final Outing of 2020

March 7, 2020. Austin Cheeley made his way off the bus and headed into the ballpark at Springs Brooks Stadium in Conway, S.C for the second game of a three-game set against national power Coastal Carolina. It's a routine he's followed for all of his life. After all, there isn't a more routine game than baseball. It's a love for that routine that pushes him forward every day. It's the same routine that was instilled in him as a small child by his biggest fan: his father, John. John always made sure to get to work early so that he could make it to all of his son's games growing up. But now, for the first time, the 6-foot-8-inch right-hander had to break away from the routine. On March 7, it was the game that John Cheeley would be watching his son pitch closer than he ever had before.