FA and Dexter players unite in support of Harmony boy

    HARMONY — A benefit baseball game held at Harmony Elementary School on July 22 for Jaydon Talbot, a four-year-old boy from Harmony who lost his right leg in an accident on June 5, was a rousing success, with 16 local players coming together to raise $130 toward a new prostheses for Talbot. Foxcroft’s team consisted of Tanner and Talon Strout; Luke, Eli, Jacob and Esau Olson; Kaleb Smith, Caleb Richard, and Hunter Law while Logan Bagley, Adrian Bussell, Jacob Sinclair, Dustin Belanger, Dylan Graffam, Brandon Spratt and Brandon Gourley (a Foxcroft Academy alum) represented the Dexter side.

    Foxcroft was leading 12-0 after three innings, at which point the game had to be called due to approaching darkness and the threat of a storm. Spratt won the Home Run Derby with a blast measured at 353 feet while Harmony’s Sinclair (330 feet) and Foxcroft’s Smith (328 feet) took second and third. Both teams signed school hats for Talbot, who was, according to event organizer Gloria Bagley of Harmony, a “very happy little boy!”

Photos courtesy of Bonnie Brooks

   PLAYING FOR TALBOT — A benefit baseball game on the evening of Monday, July 22 at the Harmony Elementary School featured players representing both Foxcroft Academy and Dexter Regional High School raising funds for four-year-old Jaydon Talbot of Harmony, left. Talbot lost his right leg in an accident in early June.

   Bagley is grateful for the support from the players, coaches Kevin Strout and Chad Graffam (who supplied baseball and helmets) and to the event sponsors and those who supplied drinks for the event.