Time to Get Out Those Gloves and Bats

Major league pitchers and catchers are already hard at work in spring training, so should it surprise us that their high school counterparts are on the same schedule?

Unfortunately, the weather in South Orange is a bit cooler than in southern Florida or Arizona, so Saturday's softball clinic—organized by the Maplewood Recreation Department—for CHS was indoors at the South Orange Middle School gym.

The girls got coaching from Mark Maire and Matthew Becht in basic softball skills as well as some practice with gloves and bats.

The girls who signed up for the clinic included Laura Acevedo, Desiree Brooks, Charlea Childs, Rebecca Cutler, Casey Dickson, Tenneille Dunn, Lena Eisenstein, Mara Evans, Claudia Frazer, Emma Garaban, Eliza Gray, Samantha Guillen, Jamina Hayes, Megan Kirk, Kaitlin Kling, Keneavy Krenzin, Leila Rosenthal, Olivia Rubino-Finn, Emily Schnorr, Grace Spencer, Kyrsten Vannatta, Leigh West, Elizabeth Zona, Julia Lester Taylor, Sarah Lopez, Tiffany Major, Megan Mathews, Amanda Meehan, Mary Nolet, Christine Ortiz and Anna Rappoport.

Check the photo gallery, at right, by Patch photographer Barry Kaufman.