Greg
Twarozek
Event
driven assignment
CSAT
versus Medina
A
no- hitter is seen as a special feat.
Usually it is something that doesn’t happen every day. Like a perfect
game it is a goal that seems almost impossible to reach. That doesn’t mean a
team cannot come close to doing it. A no hitter can be something great for one
team and for the other team it may be the worst thing in the world. The CSAT Varsity
baseball team was close to being the victim of it on Wednesday afternoon.
Baseball is a game that
can be played in perfect harmony. Some days you have it and some days you
don’t. Then there are days where one team is clicking on all cylinders and the
other team looks as if they didn’t want to be there. The conference game on
Wednesday afternoon between the Medina Mustangs and CSAT Eagles held that to be
true. It was a game that started off on the right foot for the Eagles but after
the first inning it all went downhill. CSAT struggled mightily in their nine to
one loss to Medina on Wednesday.
For the Eagles it was a very rough
day on offense and a forgetful one at that. The Eagles had one hit and only
three baserunners for the entire game. Medina’s pitching completely shut them
down for seven innings. CSAT scored one run in the first on two walks and an
error and they held the lead for an instant. Then after the inning was over
CSAT could not solve the riddle that was Matt Reimer, a senior and the starting
pitcher for Medina. Reimer mowed down the Eagles inning by inning on his way to
a complete game one hit, one run masterpiece.
After walking the first two batters of
the game Reimer settled down into a grove that made him almost unhittable. The
Eagles only had one baserunner after the first. Reimer’s no hit bid was broken
up in the fifth inning by a CSAT single and after that it was all she wrote.
Reimer had eight strikeouts and two walks. Reimer was one of the two Medina
players with a multi - hit game. The other was eighth grader Isiah Rhim who had
two hits in four at bats including a three run double in the seventh and final
inning which put away the Eagles for good.
The Mustang bats put on an offensive
show accounting for nine runs on seven hits. Medina had a big fourth inning
scoring four runs on three hits. They later added to that total with two in the
fifth and three in the seventh. Medina dominated the game with good pitching
and timely hitting leaving the Eagles with their first loss of the year at
home.
CSAT was coming off of a four to three win
earlier this week on Monday versus Royalton Hartland in a game where they
stormed back from a three to nothing deficit. Medina came into the game on a
hot streak of their own beating Albion on Monday nine to one. With the loss the
Charter School for Applied Technologies moved to one and one while Medina moved
to four and two on the year. Medina will play Barker at home on Friday and CSAT
will do the same versus Albion.
CSAT is coming off of a rough season
last year but after talking with sophomore left fielder Zack Kiblin and senior
Peter Grunzweig, the optimism for this year’s team is very high. Peter who is a
first basemen and a pitcher, has played on the team for four years. He’s excited
for the season as he believes the Eagles will accomplish a lot when it’s all
said and done. “I think this team will be really good.” said Grunzweig. Kiblin
said he is looking forward to his first year with the team and he believes they
can be something special. “We have all the pieces, now it’s time to just win
games.”
Peter and Zack are not just baseball
players, both play basketball and Peter is currently on the soccer team. Zach
started playing at a young age and he likes it more than basketball because in
the end “baseball is just easier.” Peter and Zack have baseball in their blood
and both intend to play at the next level. “I want to go as far as I can
possibly go.” said Kiblin. Peter said he would “no doubt” try to play at the
college level because baseball has always been his favorite sport. Peter has
played his entire life and said “Baseball is the best sport I have ever played
it’s by far the most fun. I started playing when I was little and it was
because I had nothing else to do.”
