The defending 2025 Founders League baseball Champions spent their spring break in Fort Pierce, Florida, training and preparing for the upcoming season.
The Wyverns are excited and amped up to get the season underway in hopes of bringing another championship home. Although the team graduated four seniors last year, Assistant Coach Ryan Radmanovich is proud of the way three new transfer students, who all happen to be pitchers, have been able to step up and help rebuild the team. “Pitchers Cameron DeVita, Noah Schwarz, and Ethan Shifrin all did great, and it was just nice to see that these guys were able to come up here and contribute this year,” Coach Rad mentioned.
Senior pitcher and UMass Lowell baseball commit, Captain William Parkhouse, also understands what his team needs from him to have the same success as last year. “I pitched well last year, and I have to keep on doing that,” Parkhouse explains. “Obviously, at the plate, I need to put the ball into play and get on base.” In addition to this, he encouraged the younger players and the rest of the team to work hard, try their best, and have fun while doing so.
During the second week of spring break, the Kingswood Oxford baseball team headed down to Florida to participate in their annual spring training, along with six exhibition games. Throughout the week, players worked on improving their batting skills while also making sure to enjoy themselves through various activities such as watching a Major League Baseball game and having fun bowling.
Coach Rad explained that this trip is an important part of building the team’s chemistry and developing life lessons along the way that his players may need down the road. “The goal of the trip is getting your varsity team ready, but at the same time it’s bigger than the game itself,” he said. “The biggest thing we always want to come back with is the team feeling that everybody knows each other better, and that’s a big part of it. Hopefully, the kids came back with a little more responsibility, time management, and learning how to live and work with others because that will help them as they get older.”
All coaches clearly seem to put an emphasis on how playing baseball can translate in the real world and what skills may travel along with their players. As always, players were able to join the team in Florida; however, two players were not able to join while spending their first week of spring break volunteering in Tobatí, Paraguay, with Team Tobatí.
Thankfully, the Wyverns came back from Florida healthy and without any injuries, so they can roll right into a tough Founder’s League schedule. Although the team is not off to the exact start that they hoped for, with a 9-2 loss to Taft School on March 28, a 0-10 loss to Avon Old Farms on March 31, a 12-1 loss to Loomis Chaffee School on April 8, followed by a 5-0 win against Trinity-Pawling School on April 11, a 2-1 loss to Choate Rosemary Hall on April 13, a 12-3 win over Kent School on April 15, and a 1-0 win over Hotchkiss School, they’re still aiming to be back in the playoffs this season. Don’t forget to come out and support the team any chance you may get, their next upcoming game is on April 25 at Kent School.
