JRMCC launches Fastball Academy

“Participation is the number one thing just to get kids and athletes to be part of the team, but we find sometimes that some of our kids have the talent and the skill and they just don’t have the experience of playing the game in situations that arise.”

Fastball and softball differ primarily in pitching style and field dimensions. For instance, fastball is a little faster, the pitching mound is closer, and there’s windmill-style pitching compared to baseball, which is overhand.

Roberts explained fastball was once an established sport in the tri-communities, but it slowly faded over time.

“With our academy, we want to help with that,” he remarked.

“If you look at the logo, it says building the game and that’s what it’s all about – getting kids active and getting to introduce the game to a new group of kids. It’s also transferable to baseball, so if a kid has played baseball, the field, the catching, the hitting, all those technical stuff are transferred between both sports.”

The Fastball Academy will be led by cousins and local athletes Sage Roberts and Danica Roberts. They will be hosting sessions in Grandmother’s Bay, Hall Lake, La Ronge, Little Red, Sucker River and Stanley Mission three or four times during fall and winter likely on Sundays.

“We thought those two would be ideal to use our local role models to help build the game,” Roberts noted.

“Kids are familiar with who they are, so it might just give them more interest to come out to one of the camps.”

derek.cornet@pattisonmedia.com

by Derek Cornet

JRMCC launches Fastball Academy

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