Other Class AA baseball teams will be glad Logan won’t be around next season.

Josh Motto drove in three runs and Logan used a pair of four-run innings to beat Point Pleasant 13-3 Saturday for the Class AA championship at Appalachian Power Park. The game was shortened to six innings by the 10-run mercy rule.

Motto transferred from Chapmanville to Logan with his parents after the 2007 football season but was hampered much of the baseball season by a sore arm that he initially didn’t tell his coaches about.

Motto lasted four innings as the starting pitcher, allowing three runs. Ronnie Abbott pitched the final three innings for Logan.

“I finally got healthy after physical therapy and now we’re state champs,” Motto said. “It’s like living a dream.”

Logan (27-9) won its second title in four years. The Wildcats will return to Class AAA next season where it won four state titles, the last in 2001.

Gertz, the longtime Wildcats coach, may not be there for the transition.

Gertz hinted after the game that he’ll take some time to consider retirement. He has been the head coach for five championships teams, the first in 1994.

“This old body’s getting tired,” Gertz said. “I need to get away from it for a little bit. I enjoy it. It’s a lot of fun. But it gets tiring. Next year maybe the fires will rekindle. Who knows.”

At least one Logan player isn’t counting Gertz out.

“He’ll be here _ trust me,” Motto said.

Ross Easterling and Chad Boytek each drove in two runs and Thomas Adkins hit a pair of triples for Logan.

Logan scored twice in the first inning, four times each in the second and fourth, and three more times in the sixth. Pinch-hitter Todd Fleming’s RBI single in the sixth ended the contest.

Point Pleasant (17-14), which lost in the semifinals a year ago, had reached the championship game for the first time in school history. B.J. Lloyd Jr. hit a two-run triple for the Big Blacks.

“They’re just better than us,” said Point Pleasant coach James Higginbotham. “We’re just building a program, trying to get it going in the right direction. Hopefully our kids learned from the experience and they know what it takes to get back here next year.

“I knew coming in we had to play a perfect game. It didn’t start off well. We misjudged a couple of fly balls and after that the gates just opened.”