As the weeks roll on during the COVID-19 pandemic, the preseason work for summer sports teams falls more and more behind schedule. Normally teams would be gearing up for the start of official practices after several weeks of individual workouts. That is all on hold until June 1st at the earliest. Pleasantville baseball coach Sheldon Card says that since no one is able to do official workouts, it’s up to the individual to make themselves prepared.

“I look almost every week on what we did last year, and right now our pitchers would be between 35 and 40 pitches. We do a strength program, and I think we stopped with some guys hitting the 20-pitch plateau before we had to quit seeing each other. We are getting behind with that. You just hope kids are working out. I don’t expect them to be out playing catch every day or trying to hit every day, but hopefully they’re gettin some exercise on their own.”

If Pleasantville is able to start the season as scheduled, they’d take on Earlham on June 2nd to begin competition.