Bethel Park Hawks Baseball

🚨Congratulations to the recipients of the 3rd annual awards honoring the 2020 Seniors at the Baseball Banquet‼️ Thank you for carrying on their legacy and honoring all past, present, and future Hawks with your character, leadership, and perseverance: #ttob

A simple visual for kids (and adults) to understand delayed gratification.

HITTING IS HARD You don’t hit .300 every day. You might go three weeks & hit .150 then have a week where you hit .600. I don’t love batting average as an indicator of if you are hitting or not but the players gravitate towards it. Most rather get a hit with a bad swing & bad EV than line out. When players go into an extended slump( Yogi-No slump just not hitting) they lose confidence often over thinking & getting bogged down with too many mechanical thoughts which exacerbates the situation. To get out of the slump, you eventually have to get your hits when you are not confident. We talk about process over outcome & redefining success so that you are not only successful when you get hits(IE hard contact/putting a good swing on your pitch) but ultimately you need to get hits to regain your confidence. That doesn’t mean you can’t tweak your routine,etc. But hitting your way on base changes everything. It’s not easy. It’s takes a high degree of mental toughness. There are a couple things you can do to help your team & your psyche when you are not hitting. Play great defense, take your walks & run the bases aggressively & intelligently. Help your teammates play better & help your team win. Stay present. Don’t focus on your failures & how many future hits you’re going to have to get to match the stats on the back of your baseball card.

I come back to this speech every time I forget what winning actually means...

1 of his 3 hits for the game‼️ Also collected the W on the mound throwing a scoreless top of the 13th💪

Walk off hit after 13 innings of play in game one of section play against Peters Township.@bp_hawks @maruccispikes @BUncommitted

Hawks lose to Peters township 8-3 💪Thomas 2inn 0r 2h 3k 1w 💪T Stewart 3inn 0r 3h 5k 0w 💥B Bruckner 2hits + 2B 💥White & Hladio 2 hits 💥Stokes & M Bruckner w hits We face Hempfield in a non-section matchup Thursday #ttob

🚨SECTION GAMEDAY x 2🚨 Game 1: 🆚 Peters Township 📍Purkey Field ⏰ 4:00 ☀️70+ degrees ℹ️ Picking up tied 4-4 in the top of the 13th inning after game was suspended due to darkness yesterday. Game 2: 🆚 Peters Township 📍Peterswood Park ⏰ 7:00 Let’s play two‼️ #ttob

Game vs Peters Twp suspended due to darkness after 12 innings Current score: 4-4 Game will resume tomorrow - likely @ Purkey at 4:00 Tomorrow’s game @ Peters Twp will go on as scheduled at 7:00pm or reasonably after Game 1 concludes #ttob

🚨SECTION GAMEDAY🚨 🆚 Peters Township 📍Purkey Field ⏰ 4:00 ☀️70+ degrees! ℹ️ Game 1 of the back to back section series #ttob

"Hitters who hit more, hit more." I strongly disagree. Some of the hardest workers I've coached under-perform (compared to the work they put in) I was one of them. It's the mental side. - Anxious. - Nervous. - You care so much it works against you. I remember shaking in the box because I wanted to be so good. It wasn't fear of the competition. I just cared too much I didn't need more reps. I needed to train winning. I needed to focus on scoring runs. I needed to stop thinking about ME and start thinking about scoring runs for MY TEAM. When you shift your focus from yourself to YOUR TEAM, your energy transfers. That's when the swing you worked your butt off, shows up.

Mason Miller pitched at PNC Park in 2015 as a high schooler. Little did he know he would be living his dream in the same place over a decade later 🥹

💯 “Boring before brilliance.” Paul Skenes details his routine Young athletes want to constantly do something new or novel Often avoiding routine, fundamentals & what works… “Sometimes it’s what it takes in sports The boring process, the boring fundamentals.” LISTEN:

Talked to #Illini head baseball coach Dan Hartleb about avoiding information overload with his guys. Interesting 2.5 minutes here, IMO. "You want to give your players information, yet, they have to react." "In baseball 70% of the hits are in front of the outfield. So if you train to hit them over the outfielders, you're training for 30%." Says he doesn't want players overly focused on metrics and analytics -- need to go compete at some point.

The Hawks are defeated by South Fayette 6-5 💪M Stewart 3.1inn 4r 3h 2k 4w 💪Rendulic 1r 1h 💪M Bruckner 2.2inn 1r 2h 3k 1w 💥M Bruckner 2hits 2B 💥B Bruckner 2hits 💥T Stewart 2hits 💥Stokes, Rillo, White, & Turoski w hits Hawks move to 7-2 overall and 4-2 in section #ttob

🚨SECTION GAMEDAY🚨 🆚 South Fayette 📍South Fayette HS ⏰ 4:00 ☀️60+ degrees! ℹ️ Game 2 of the back to back section series #ttob

Bethel Park baseball celebrates ‘Buddies at the Ballfield’ ⁦@bp_hawks⁩ ⁦@TribLiveHSSN⁩ tribhssn.triblive.com/bethel-park-ba…

"Great players come ready to play with the right approach every day. The wins are a byproduct of the foundation of what your program is about." Wins don’t come first. Discipline does. Accountability does. Consistency does. Winning is just the result of great habits.

Big Section win for @bp_hawks They defeat @SFLionsBaseball @coppin_baseball commit @M_Hughes33 goes 4.2 innings 🍩 Runs 1 Hit 7 Ks 🎟️🎟️🎟️🎟️🎟️🎟️🎟️🥊 Uncommitted 2027 @HladioMichael with a big insurance Run RBI🥩 🎥 ⬇️ Best of all Hawks wearing Purple for “Buddies” program & invited community kids to the game. They brought home a winner!!! From the lab the boys were all pulling for Hughsey & “Spike”… well Except maybe for South Fayette future Baller Cam “Autobot” Ott 😂 🎥 ⬇️

In football weather, Bethel Park freezes out South Fayette ⁦@bp_hawks⁩ ⁦@TribLiveHSSN⁩ tribhssn.triblive.com/in-football-we…

Big thank you to the Best Buddies for coming out on a cold day. It was great to watch you in action before the game and thanks for sticking around to watch! Huge shoutouts to Coach King, Mrs. Bruckner, Mrs. LeJeune & Mrs. Hernandez for all your help planning & running the day!

Hawks defeat South Fayette 4-1‼️ 💪Hughes 4.2inn 0r 1h 7k 4w 💪T Stewart (W) 1.1inn 1r 3h 1k 0w 💪Rillo (S) 1inn 0r 0h 2k 💥Turoski 2hits 2B 💥Miehl, Hladio (rbi) & Stokes 2B 💥M Bruckner and T Stewart (rbi) w hits 💥White tying rbi & B Bruckner go ahead rbi in 6th #ttob