Boone Fahey ’26 prepares to pitch a baseball.
On Friday, Baseball scrimmaged Austin Prep away, falling 0-4. On Wednesday the team scrimmaged Andover High School at home, defeating the team 6-3. The team will play its first official game this Saturday.
An highlighted the importance of Coach Wright’s discussions about mentality. He also mentioned that the older players were able to share their opinions on staying competitive while also controlling your emotions.
An said, “Coach Wright has been really helpful for us. Not only as just a hitting coach, but also with the mentality part of baseball. It’s a game of a lot of ups and downs, you’re going to fail and you’re going to succeed. That talk really helped our hitters regather our mentality when we play, and a lot of the older guys gave a lot of good thoughts and insights to the younger guys about controlling your emotions, having that really competitive mentality.”
An noted the importance of the strong leadership on the team. He highlighted Co-Captains Jace Roossien ’24, Isaac Lamson ’24, and Luke Gallo ’25 as good role models on and off the field.
“We have a lot of experienced players, and talented guys who we can really look up to not only just baseball, but for just as people in general. There are a lot of really nice and supportive guys, especially our three Captains. They’ve been on the team for more than three years, all of them, so they know what’s going on,” said An.
Michael Doherty ’27 noted that the strength and energy that the team usually has was not reflected in the scrimmage against Austin Prep. Despite that, he highlighted the team’s powerful hitting and high energy.
Doherty said, “Overall, that game doesn’t reflect how we are as a team. But putting that game aside, we’re a really strong hitting team. We have a bunch of guys throughout the order who are really good at doing their own job and getting on base. That’s definitely one of our biggest strengths. Another strength that we have that wasn’t represented in our game is our energy. We usually have really high energy and we’re cheering each other on and motivating each other.”
From its most recent scrimmage, a win against Andover High School, Roosien spoke on individual routines and warmups. He noted how important going into the game calm and ready to play was in its success.
“Everybody does their own thing, we all ended up getting ready, working with our trainer, who’s really close to the team. We all got our work done there. And then we went down to the field and we took on-field batting practice which was a good time. We were just all excited and relaxed and getting our work done hitting and prepping for the game.”
Roosien shared how impressed he was with the team’s performance – especially the Junior pitchers.
“I would say, first of all, our pitching was outstanding today. Our starter was Michael Gilligan, and he pitched really, really well. I’d say a couple young kids, some freshmen, Mikah Krystofolski [’27] as well as Michael Doherty [’27] pitched so well today, filling up the zone, a lot of strikes. They really stood out on the pitching side of things,” said Roossien.
Looking ahead to its first interscholastic game on Saturday, Roossien shared the team’s approach. It plans to work on its hitting, in order to be confident against Dexter Southfield.
“We’re definitely going to want to bring our energy when we’re hitting. Settling into our approach and our swing and just being comfortable at the plate with a lot of confidence for the next game right from the start. The next couple of days, we’re just going to work on finding that swing right away and then bring that to Saturday,” said Roossien.
Baseball will play Dexter Southfield at home on Saturday.
