TBCS softball team ‘not giving up’
The 2019 Trinity-Byrnes Collegiate School softball team.
By Bobby Bryant, Editor, editor@newsandpress.net
“They are facing challenges this year”: That’s how Trinity-Byrnes Collegiate School varsity softball coach Brooke Owens sums up the Titans’ season so far.
One problem, she said, is that the team is low on pitchers. Another is that they have only nine players this season rather than the 10 or 12 Owens would like to have.
As of March 29, the Titans softball team’s record was 1-4.
“They’re not giving up,” Owens said. “They’re trying their hardest. They’re making progress. That’s all I can ask of them.”
By late March, the team had played five games and had about eight games still to play. The team is playing in class 3-A this year.
Out of those first five games, Owens felt that the team’s best game was against Wilson Hall of Sumter. The Titans lost that game 18-14, but “they didn’t give up,” Owens said.
Owens said she regrets that she can’t be a full-time softball coach; she works two other jobs, including serving as an athletic trainer at McLeod Sports Medicine.
“I love the girls, and I love (coaching them),” Owens said.
“I just like each girl to individually improve, learn discipline and have fun,” she said.
Trinity-Byrnes is a coeducational, non-discriminatory, college-preparatory day school serving students in grades seven through 12 and is located in Darlington County. Trinity-Byrnes says its goal is to foster development of every student’s intellect and character through academics, a wide variety of athletics and extracurricular activities.