Embree, Drifters seeing improvement on field, in the stands at mid-season

SPRINGFIELD – Anytime a program has a coaching change, there’s bound to be an adjustment period. That period gets magnified when the coaching change happens a week into the season – the way it did for the Springfield Drifters this summer. 

Alan Embree took over the team after Tommy Richards, the coach for the first two seasons of Drifters baseball, left to take an assistant coaching job at his alma mater Washington State.

Luckily for…