The final game for many seniors is a great moment of celebration. The SMU club baseball team seniors celebrated their last game in the red and blue by beating Baylor 11-6.
Senior Caleb Quary pitched eleven and a third innings in two days, allowing one earned run while striking out six. He also led the team in hitting with a .500 average in the series.
Quary was all smiles after being given a game ball to let him know that his time and dedication were appreciated by this few in numbers but big in heart baseball club.
The team has already started to focus on this fall and is hoping for a big recruiting class. The team is open to any full time student with a minimum 2.0 GPA.
The first need of any ball club is pitching and the second is catching and everything else is third. The team ends the year with a strong core of seasoned players who want to build on their numbers and continue to represent SMU on the field.
The team has been invited to play in faraway places as Arizona, Colorado and Missouri, and is now getting calls from Texas Junior Colleges to round out their practice schedules.
The SMU team has what it takes to play and sometimes they feel like David when he met Goliath because of the structure of their recruiting.
SMU baseball recruits players who want to keep playing for the love of the game. Most of their opponents have a school athletics program support feed into their club.
It is a lot easier to find players when you can have those not making the division one team just walk on to your team.
The SMU ball players keep their head high and keep plugging away just to play the game. They would invite you to get into the game and play against opponents such as Texas Tech, Texas, North Texas and Baylor.