Opening day could have gone better for the Blair Academy baseball team, which lost to the hands of long-time rival, the Peddie School of Hightstown, on March 27.
The 10-0 loss kicked off a multi-game losing streak for the Bucs, but Coach Joe Wagner said he feels optimistic that the team will begin clicking.
“Yeah, this is not the result we wanted and we’re just going to improve from here,” Wagner said. “We learned some things and we’ve got a lot of work to do in practice.”
Peddie’s starting pitcher Caleb Chou-Green served up just one hit to the Bucs with six strikeouts over five innings.
“We have to execute,” Wagner said. “We have to hit the ball better.”
Wagner is returning to the Bucs after a 3-15 season in 2022, when baseball resumed after two years off as a result of Covid-19. He was a four-year varsity pitcher for Hamilton College, where he earned his BA in biology. He received his advanced master’s degree from the Harvard Graduate School of Education in 2020.
He joined the Blair faculty in 2014. He teaches biology honors and AP biology.
Joe brings decades of journalism experience to the Ridge View Echo, covering everything from local school boards to the U.S. Supreme Court. A former National Law Journal editor and Columbia Law School press officer, he now enjoys telling community stories in Blairstown, where he lives with his wife, Rose, and their two dachshunds.
- Joe Phalon, Contributing Writerhttps://ridgeviewecho.com/author/joe-phalon-contributing-writer/
- Joe Phalon, Contributing Writerhttps://ridgeviewecho.com/author/joe-phalon-contributing-writer/
- Joe Phalon, Contributing Writerhttps://ridgeviewecho.com/author/joe-phalon-contributing-writer/
- Joe Phalon, Contributing Writerhttps://ridgeviewecho.com/author/joe-phalon-contributing-writer/
