Low participation imperils softball season
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Brian O'Connor/ Wrangell Sentinel
McKenna Harding fields a grounder off the first base line during practice at Volunteer Park Tuesday. The Lady Wolves have sixteen players, including three seniors, almost enough to field two complete teams. However, other Southeast teams haven't been able to muster enough personnel to make it a season.
Let's be clear: the Lady Wolves softball team showed up in force this year.
Unlike the high school baseball team, which didn't garner enough participants to field a full team (not enough relief pitching for a double-header has hamstrung the Wolves baseball team for this season), the softballers have 16 student athletes – almost enough players to stock two full teams without relief – raring to go. Unfortunately, they lack credible opposition, school activities officials have said.
Officials have tried in recent days to round up the usual suspects, to little avail. Craig, Klawock, Haines...
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