As the sun starts to shine and the temperature rises, the spring sports season begins. The Bridgewater-Raritan High School Softball team is counting the days until their opening day.
On April 1, the team will head to Bernardsville to take on Bernards High School for its first game of the 2024-2025 season. With the pre-season beginning, the girls are preparing for a big season ahead of them.
The team finished the last season with a 9-17 record. The team fell behind by one run in their first round of the NJSIAA tournament last May, to Ridge High School, ending their season. This season, the girls hope to improve that record.
The team is eager and determined to return from that loss this year and make a deeper run in the tournament.
Coach Sandy Baronowski, being the face of Bridgewater-Raritan High School softball for years, has reached her final season coaching for the team, making this season very different from the rest.
Coach Baronowski addressed how it feels going into her last year as coach.
“This whole year has been different for me, even with teaching. I’m just celebrating every moment. With softball and practice and tryouts, I’m really trying to take it all in, it’s sort of bittersweet,” she said.
Coach Baronowski is most looking forward to competing at a high level and improving daily in practice, with the goals of winning the conference, reaching the county finals and hopefully winning the county final.
Third Basemen, Junior Brianna Caccchio, stated the team’s goals this year.
“We want to go for a run to county’s and end with a strong finish for Coach B’s last season as coach,” she said.
Caccchio is coming off of a five-home run season, with the hopes to improve that number.
Along with Coach Baronowski, this season is also the final year for some of the softball teams’ star senior players.
Shortstop, second baseman and captain Angela Tremarco; center, left fielder and three-year captain Evelyn Fresco; and catcher and three-year captain Caleigh Mahovetz are all heading into their final season of high school softball.
Coach Baronowiski described her seniors, who she’s been coaching far before high school softball, as “wonderful and incredible people who are all leaders and it’s rare to have a group like that.”
These three seniors all finished the 2023-2024 season with two home runs, making a huge impact on the team.
Best of luck to the softball team on a great start to their season!
