Troy righthander Andrew Crane (Troy Athletics)

Troy’s Crane Streaks Toward History

When it comes to Troy’s Andrew Crane, whose 36.2-innings scoreless streak is among the longest in college baseball history, the following is all true … and all amazing:

• He was cut from his high school baseball team as a Pascagoula (Mississippi) sophomore, judged by his coaches as not even good enough to help the junior varsity.

• He didn’t even try out for the team as a junior as he was by then engrossed in learning tennis, which he thought might earn him a junior-college scholarship.

“I was done with baseball,”[…]