Baseball gets turned "indoors out"
Emilie Lariviere
Issue date: 3/12/10 Section: Sports
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Since February, the baseball team has been holding practices in Stannard Gymnasium but recently they got to move outside and play a few early season games.
The team spent last weekend in New York and New Jersey, playing a total of five games in a span of only three days.
"We played well for it being our first days outside of the gym and on a field," said Michael Johnson, a sophomore outfielder. "A lot of positives came out of the weekend and we need to build on them rather than looking at the wins and losses. I also think we have a lot of depth this year."
Ryan Farley, the sixth-year head coach of the team said that one thing the team has shown so far is "great team commitment. What impressed me the most was the play of the freshman, their maturity level and work ethic and the upper classman's leadership," he said. "I was very happy with the results of the entire weekend."
"This past weekend was a tribute to what we did in the last four weeks in the gym," said Farley. "And then this weekend was like the test they had been studying so long and so hard for."
The team lost four of the five games and was outscored 33-11 in the four losses. Despite these numbers, Mark Hilton, the team's assistant coach, focused on the experience, rather than the outcome.
"It was our first 3 days outside. We played teams that had been on southern trips and I was very happy," he said. "It's a good team."
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