spring sports teams

The 2008-09 school year is drawing to a close. The spring sports teams are in the final stages of state playoffs in baseball and softball. That is all that is remaining from another long season of sports activities.
The Spring-Ford and Owen J. Roberts softball teams in Class AAAA and St. Pius X in Class AA softball were the last teams still competing in the state playoffs before the school year ends with graduation.
St. Pius X saw its season end with an 8-0 loss to Brandywine Heights, the District 3 champion, Thursday afternoon in drizzling rain at Spring-Ford Area High School’s field in Royersford. Owen J. Roberts was ousted in the first round of states.
It is also that time of year when schools schedule end-of-the-year senior banquets to honor the student-athletes and coaches. I attended Phoenixville’s Tuesday night and Spring-Ford’s Wednesday evening. Both dinners were held at the Radisson Hotel in Valley Forge.
They were nice affairs. It is nice to see the players honored for all of their hard work and success throughout the year. Most of the students are also successful in the classroom and will be furthering their education in college. Some of them will continue to play sports. Others will not, but they have used sports as a tool to be accepted at the college of their choice.
Yusuf Brown and Miranda Peto were honored as Phoenixville’s outstanding senior boy and girl athlete. Andrew Cooper and Ashley Wood were honored as Spring-Ford’s top athletes.
The top athletes are voted upon by the head coaches at the respective schools. The selections are difficult because there are so many deserving candidates. Most often, the recipients are ahletes who have played more than one sport and been successful at all their undertakings.