The Hi-Line Baseball Team is taking on a new challenge: fall baseball league. Several of the eleven people playing fall baseball are from Elwood.
“For those who are debating on doing fall ball, do it because if you don’t then you are losing the experience that others are getting,” explained Coach Nate Hodge. “Doing this fall ball will prevent you from being so rusty when we start practicing in March. The players that are involved in fall ball are getting better while you are not.”
While the Hi-Line players are excited for the opportunity, there are some definite challenges.
“The biggest challenge is that the bigger schools have more enrolled kids in school which means they have more boys to make up a team,” said Hodge. “That is an advantage because they have enough players to make up a junior and senior team; we have juniors playing on our senior team.”
Hodge had some advice for kids considering playing fall baseball next year: “Act like you are playing in the regular season game in June and that you are playing for a spot on the senior district line-up.”
Hodge said that Hi-Line has been competing in Legion baseball for five years and he is proud to say that he has been a part of all of them.
He enjoys “still being able to be around the best game in the world and sharing my passion for the game with the players and other coaches. I love when the fellow coaches’ baseball minds clash together during games.”