Season Recap

In the cool days of spring, the hot summer afternoons, the sprawling fields with the freshly cut grass, infield raked of dirt and sweat, comes baseball, Prince Tech baseball, not in its infancy but still trying to grasp the intricacies and nuances of a game fit for athletes with incredible patience, long hours of idle time but only 1.3 seconds to swing. This is baseball.

Seniors Will Toro, Pedro Arzuaga, Johnny Lugo, Sandry Dejesus, and Jessie Thomas have limited baseball abilities, but Toro and Arzuaga are two of the best players on the team! The freshman and sophomore classes have been a good addition to keep the team striving to win. Sophomores Jeffery Santiago, George Miranda, Jorge Diaz, Sammy Otero, Guillermo Rodriguez, Reinaldo Alvarado, Josue Roman, Leonard Thomas are learning the skills on the field of dreams, not dreams of making the major league but dreams of winning and competing in a sport where skill and repetition is the name of the game.

Freshmen with their grand visions, coupled with youthful exuberance carefully watch and learn the correct hitting stance, the proper throwing, procedures on ball transfers and cut 2’s and 3’s. The freshman players Stephen Diaz, Matthew Santiago and Kevin Crespo are a group of young men who with more seasons will become some of the best to play here in a long time! The goals in any sport is winning. We are doing that not only on the field but in the live of these young men who have taken the time and energy to perform at a certain level to become good players but more importantly good young men.