The OVS baseball season started yesterday with a game against another local team, Vilanova. Vilanova is historically horrible at baseball, and that trend continues this year. The difference this year is that the OVS baseball team has taken many hits in its lineup and now consists of a forced-together team that does not play baseball. We were embarrassed by Vilanova after we lost 1-0, with 1 hit the entire game. Coach Pankratz was not pleased to say the least, and feels that the team simply isn’t trying in practice, and it reflects in the way we play. I think the problem is simply the lack of experience and not that we are not trying. What went wrong in the game did not relate to effort and were simple errors from never having played before. Fumbled ground balls were still blocked, which takes an effort. What I could take away from this game was not that we didn’t try hard enough, but that we have not played enough. I do feel that coach Pankratz was too hard on the team and that punishing us in practice is not an ideal way to address this loss. Rather than taking out our frustration on the new team and new players, we should be constructive in practice and really get down to the fundamentals of baseball.

P.C. Google