Baseball Team Ramping Up for Fall Ball, Promising Spring Season

Baseball Team Ramping Up for Fall Ball, Promising Spring Season
Posted: Sep 25, 2017

Baseball Team Ramping Up for Fall Ball, Promising Spring Season

 

DuBOIS – The Penn State DuBois baseball team kicks off a short, three date fall ball season this Saturday, September 16, at Slippery Rock. They'll also take on Pitt Bradford on September 23, and Westmoreland County Community College on September 30, both also on the road. The fall season will help to prepare players for what Head Coach Tom Calliari says looks to be a promising spring, which will end with hosting the United State Colligate Athletic Association's (USCAA) Small College World Series at Showers Field in DuBois, as previously announced.

"The guys are competing this fall and learning our system. We have the potential to be really good. We only achieve that if each player accepts their role and does that to the best of their ability. They need to continue to develop and be a part of this program's success for now and the future," Callairi said.

Callairi said hosting the USCAA championship on home turf in May is an extra incentive for the team to excel. He said, "Hosting the World Series this year is very exciting and we are going to do everything we can to qualify. We hope the community shows the schools from across the country what real passion is about in this baseball town with a large turnout."

With his roster locked in, the coach is confident he has a team capable of a winning season.

"We are extremely excited about this year's team as we have continued to grow as a program in only three short years. We finally have the depth needed to create matchups needed to compete at the highest level. We are so much more athletic at every position and have so many options when making lineups that it's extremely exciting, but also is going to make for some difficult decisions."

The 2017-18 Penn State DuBois Baseball line-up is: