After covering softball for the past spring semester, I have realized two vital points about athletics at Point Park University. The first and most obvious point if you have ever been to a game is that the athletes at our school care. They want to win every time they hit the field, court or track.
The last 18 years of senior Josh Correia's life have been consumed with baseball. "My dad took me to a game when I was four and I was like, 'I want to do that,'" the 22-year-old intelligence and national security major said. "I started playing T-ball and just kept playing.
Each athletic team needs a light-hearted jokester. Point Park University's women's softball team has that in third baseman Ashley Santaguido. Santaguido, senior criminal justice major, is in her second season at Point Park. "I'm crazy! I do crazy stuff to make [the team] laugh," she said.
When Missy Meighan steps into the batter's box as a Point Park University Pioneer, she can only think of one thing. Having gotten into softball through her dad, the senior outfielder flashes back to what her dad taught her. "He still helps me today," Meighan said, referring to the lessons she has learned from her dad's teaching and critiquing.
Sean Gaughn scored Point Park University's only run of the fourth game this weekend. In four games against Malone College, the Point Park baseball team earned only six runs against the 32 earned by Malone's team - also named the Pioneers. If the nomenclature was confusing, the results were not.
2008 Woodie Awards