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Alumni keep current players in the dugout


(Photo by S. Monroe)

The 2015 alumni baseball team after the alumni team beat the current players.

By Samantha Monroe

It was a chilly, breezy Saturday as four teams took the field on Oct.18 for the Delaware Technical Community College Alumni Game as the Roadrunners baseball/softball team face off against former players. Both Delaware Tech alumni teams beat the current players.

Before the game a tribute was held for Brittany Hood a Delaware Tech alumni. She died in September at the age of 27.

Owens Campus Athletic Director and Head Coach Curtis Brock said the Alumni game is held to bring the community, former and current players together and have a good time.

“The alumni game is a good place to talk to the older players and the younger guys can find out what they’re doing after leaving Delaware Tech,” Brock said.

This year Brock coached the Alumni team and Assistant Coach Allan Schirmer coached the current players. Both coaches had been preparing the current players for the game and telling them not to take the alumni team for granted.

“I told our younger guys before we started that game, that they’re going to have their hands full,” Coach Brock said. “The alumni team are mature guys and I think our younger guys take them pretty lightly.”

Coach Brock was especially proud of one of his alumni players, Morgan Schirmer, after hitting the game-winning homerun.

“I was tickled to death,” Brock said. “He played for us here, he was a great kid to have on the team, and a good team player.”

Brock said, Shrimer responded well on the field and had a great day.

Schirmer, a 2004 Delaware Tech graduate, became a key player hitting a home run late in the 6th inning. Hitting a home run was luck Schirmer said.

“To be honest with you, it was a good pitch,”Schirmer said. “I happen to get a fastball and the wind caught it just right and there it went.”

He said it’s always fun playing with the older guys and playing against the younger guys. He also said the younger players had no idea what was coming.

“I don’t think the old guys knew what we would be able to do today,” Schirmer said. “The guys did great and hit the ball a little bit and came out with the victory.”

Assistant Coach Allan Schirmer has coached alongside coach Brock for six years. He said the alumni game is a great way to bring the community together and bring people back because some of the players are local guys.

“It’s a way to get back to Delaware Tech,” said Coach Schirmer.

Coach Shrimer said to his players, “If you think they’re not athletes, they’re still athletes or they wouldn’t be out here to beat you.”

He said some of them are up in their 40’s and came to the game to win and that his current players didn’t take the game seriously.

Coach Schirmer had a variety of pitchers on the mound, but Kenneth Arminger threw strike after strike to keep the current players in the game.

“All I asked him to do was come in here and throw strikes, obviously they wanted one of our best pitchers,” Schrimer said. “We didn’t always make plays behind them like we should have.”

He said the younger guys need to get better at what they are doing and improve.

Despite the windy weather and the numbers on the scoreboard both the baseball and softball alumni teams came out victorious.

Coach Brock said the softball alumni team “beat our girls pretty good.”

“They’re more mature women and it’s a learning experience for our younger players here,” said Brock.



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