In the spring, there are two PSAL teams that are the most popular in Baruch College Campus High School: softball and baseball. Though these sports are extremely similar, they differ with the throwing style. In softball, pitchers throw the ball underhand unlike overhand in baseball.
The softball and baseball teams seem to be doing well this season. The baseball team had just won their recent game making their score 9-4, while the softball team has a score of 15-1 heading to the quarter final.
Students who play for both softball and baseball explain what their opinion is upon the spring sports, and how much they recommended it to students who are not playing for a PSAL team currently.
Teammates and coaches share their opinion on how spring sports were. Many have said they are looking forward to winning more games.
Junior, Tianna Brewington said, “I found playing really fun, especially with my school and my teammates since I see my teammates in class and then we get to have fun and play softball after school.”
Brewington also said, “I’m looking forward to winning the playoffs because in the few years that I’ve been playing, we’ve made it but we haven’t finished it, but this year we’re gonna finish.”
People on the team have reflected if their sport had a meaning to them, many had said at first it didn’t, but joining softball or baseball had filled them with the purpose of what they’re doing, and it makes them what they are today.
Junior Shamer Frias Munoz had said that she originally joined the softball team because her friends had joined and shared her experience on the team.
“Over the three years I’ve been at Baruch play softball, I’ve been consistently trying to get better, there’s been ups and downs where I’ll be like, ‘I don’t want to play this sport anymore, but I kept pushing because at the end of the day I still love softball and it’s a passion of mine. It gives me a place where I can put my feelings into,” she said.
Junior, Joshua Gutner, shares the impact the team had on him.
“It’s a big part of my life, and without it I’ll be a totally different person and it makes me who I am today,” he said.
Finally, seniors who are captains for baseball and softball recommended other students and incoming freshmen to join a PSAL sport team and they explain how beneficial it is to be in one.
Captain of the softball team, and also the valedictorian for Class of 2025, Abigail O’Connor said, “I would 100% recommend that, I was also on the soccer team, and I think PSAL teams are so much fun, there such a great opportunity to meet new people and to try something new, or to get better at something you already love doing and it’s a really great way to have fun, and to learn how to manage your time.”
Captain of the baseball team, Oliver Stern said, “You learn a lot, rigor, punctuation, athleticism, you just learn a lot of skills, which I feel like is heavily harnessed if you join a PSAL team.”
