Former Barbe Baseball Player Makes ESPN SportsCenter With Amazing Play

Former Barbe baseball and football player Kirkland Banks made the "Top 10 Plays" on ESPN's SportsCenter.

The Southland Conference tweeted a video of Banks making an amazing dive and throw to beat the runner out at first. They tagged SportsCenter, and it worked.

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The next morning, Lamar's pitching coach Sean Snedeker posted a video of the play being featured on SportsCenter as the number three "Top 10 Play" of the day.

Congrats Kirkland, that's a huge accomplishment and we are beaming with pride back here in SWLA.  Keep up the hard work and let's roll out some more SportsCenter-worthy highlights...well, at least when you're not playing McNeese.

Banks plays both football and baseball for Lamar, check out the highlight video below: