U5 and U7 baseball season wraps up with traditional year-end fun Hit, Run and Catch night

By George Le Gresley

With the stands full of players’ families, the Paris Youth Softball Association held the season ending hit, run and catch fun night last Friday, July 19th. Mark Robinson, the league’s vice president, gives a lot of the season’s credit to the volunteer coaches who show up weekly.

Being a coach, from my own experience, can sometimes be a challenging endeavor, but the rewards you get from seeing the improvement in the players’ skills and the fun that the players experiences is well worth it And funny enough, the kids you have coached will remember you, as do some of the players I coached twenty years ago. So, to all the PYSA volunteers.

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Pictured above is the U5 teams at last weekend’s year end fun night. This league introduces the kids to the fundamentals of the game, hitting, catching and base running. The league’s vice president Mark Robinson said the season is successful because of the volunteer coaches who put time into showing the kids the love of the game. This year’s U5 coaches included Ilyas Zylstra, Matt Gallagher, Nicole Forbes, James Ayres, Brady Curtis and Brian Winchester. Thank-you for your commitment and a great summer of baseball.

Photos by George Le Gresley