Starting this season, the Spring High School baseball league will transition from using wood bats to now using metal bats.
Since the high school seasons began, the schools have been using wood bats, a difference between the high school season and the legion season. It was a striking difference, but there are several different rules in place for high school compared to legion baseball, however, the change makes the transition from high school to legion a lot smoother. Another reason coaches were wanting to make the change is because colleges use the BBCOR metal bats, which are used in the legion season, and they believe you can’t get an accurate scouting report on someone using a wood bat.
Head Coach of the Pierre baseball program, Steve Gray, says it was a shock when he learned of the change…
Gray says though, they’ll adjust…
The transition is an expensive one. Gray says they understand the cost and went through it back in the early years as they used maple wood bats, which break easily compared to the wood composite they moved to in the last several years which is very difficult to break. Now, the Governors have to redo their entire bat inventory…
Gray expects the baseball season this year to be more fan friendly for offensive and especially when it warms up, the scores of high school baseball games will continue to increase. The Governors begin its season the first weekend of April. You can listen to Pierre baseball from the high school through the legion season on KCCR and on YouTube at KCCR Sports.
