High school baseball player comforts friend before celebrating victory

Remember sportsmanship? Sportsmanship is good, and one young baseball player has it in spades.

Last Wednesday night in Minnesota, the Mounds View and Totino-Grace baseball teams faced off in a game that would decide which team won the sectional championship. Both teams played their best (I don't know anything about baseball), but Mounds View, as it happened, came out on top.

After the win, the Mounds View players ran to each other to celebrate. But one player, pitcher Ty Koehn, stayed behind to hug the batter he'd just struck out -- Jack Kocon, who also happens to be his childhood friend.

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"We are very close friends," Koehn told local Minnesota outlet Bring Me the News in an interview. "I knew [Kocon] from all the way back when we were 13. We were on the same little league team. It was tough when we went to separate schools but we kept in touch."

"I knew the game was going to keep going or it was going to end right there," he said. "I knew I had to say something. Our friendship is more important than just the silly outcome of a game. I had to make sure he knew that before we celebrated."

Just goes to show you that despite all the Tide Pod fear-mongering, teens are actually good much of the time. Sportsmanship forever!