TC Baseball Almost Wrapped Up
By Michael Clites
This season for Taft College’s baseball team has been somewhat of a rollercoaster. After beginning their season with an astounding record of fourteen wins and only four losses, the Cougars have fallen into a bit of a slump. In the middle of March, Taft began a horrid seven game losing streak and out of all the times this streak could have occurred, it happened during the always crucial league games.
But there is plenty of baseball to be played, and the Cougars have many reasons to keep their heads up. After all, sports experts say every good team has to go through a struggle in order to succeed.
Although the season is coming to an end, the Cougars can dig their way out of this slump in no time. With six games left in the regular season, Taft can finish with a total of twenty-two wins and fourteen losses and fourteen of those wins would be league games. What do these numbers mean? Well, the better a team finishes their season, the higher they are seeded in the playoffs.
With plenty of talent on the defensive side of the ball like second basemen Michael Dagg. He seems to have no problem stopping whatever ball comes his way in addition to his terrific ability to get on base and touch home plate a total of nineteen times. There is also heavy hitter Keith Tatum who gets on base thirty-five percent of the time he is at bat with an eye-opening batting average of .330.
All in all, the Taft College Cougars have plenty of time to become a clutch team in order to finish their regular season with a record over .500 and earn a chance to continue on through the playoffs and into the State finals in May.