Lady Hawks host Kids Clinic and Hit-a-Thon

The Daleville Lady Hawks softball team will get the 2020 softball season off to a start this week, but got an early start to the season on Friday, Feb. 21, with a special Lady Hawks Kids Clinic and Hit-A-Thon.

While only seven youth softball players came out for the inaugural Kids Clinic, DHS softball coach Scott Parker was happy to see them.

“It went great,” he said. “We didn’t have the numbers we wanted but it’s the first year. The ones that came out all had a good time and our girls enjoyed having them out.”

The DHS softball coaching staff and team all came together to teach skills, base-running, agility training and stretching to the youth players that came out.

Parker said the biggest thing for his team was for the Lady Hawks to see the younger girls that will now look up to them moving forward.

“It gives them someone else to play for and to really see who they’re representing,” Parker said. “We want them to represent our school, our parents and our community but also those little girls. Some of them are going to come back out here and watch our team and will look up to these girls.”

Parker told the youth players that any of them could come back out and watch the Lady Hawks play this season at home with free admission.

“We want those kids to love coming out and it looked like they all had fun today,” Parker said. “Our girls were really good with them and really positive. Any time you have a positive interaction you’re more apt to come back out.”

Following the Kids Clinic, the softball team also held its inaugural Hit-a-Thon to raise donations for the team. Each Lady Hawk raised donations that hinged on how far each player got a hit during the event.

While Parker said that they wouldn’t know exactly how much money was raised for the team until the end of the week, he was proud of his team and was proud of the money they raised.

The Lady Hawks will take the softball field for the first time this week with road games against Houston County on Feb. 25 and Carroll on Feb. 27 before traveling to Slocomb for the Mason Walding Tournament on Feb. 28. Daleville will finally get a home game on March 10 against Geneva County.