Baseball is set to become a winter sport in Estevan.
An Inside Pitch Baseball Academy winter training program focusing on pitching mechanics will begin operation in Estevan this Friday. The program is driven towards kids aged 14 and over and will help develop the arms of pitchers and other position players.
Blaine Kovach, head coach of the Southeast Legacy midget AAA Twins, will direct the Wednesday and Friday night sessions that run out of the gymnasiums at Westview Elementary School and Pleasantdale Elementary School. He will work with Morgan Reiter, owner of Regina's Inside Pitch Baseball Academy, to put on the program.
“It's a weighted ball program,” said Kovach, noting kids can sign up by contacting him at [email protected]. “Each ball has a different weight to it, so it's going to be more ounces than your regular style baseball. You graduate from one weight and move up to the next one and it helps develop arm strength and the durability of the arm.”
Kovach said the winter program will run to the end of December when a spring program will take over and run from January to the beginning of the baseball season. He said the program comes in response to increased demand from the talented baseball players in the southeast who want to train all year to achieve their goals in the sport.
“Baseball is a very short season, (but that) doesn't mean it has to end when the season is done,” he said. “Now they can come train for what they want to do and if they want to play college ball or they want to do anything else with it, this is the opportunity to do it. This is a chance to get better and work on things all winter long and make a drive for what they really want to do.”
