Slow-Pitch Softball Emerging at Baldwin High School

's first ever slow-pitch softball team completed its inaugural season in the fall of 2011 with a 6-6 record in the Western Pennsylvania Interscholastic Softball League (WPISL).

The Highlanders, who were sponsored by the Greater Baldwin Whitehall Athletic Association, competed in the WPISL's junior varsity division. There is no varsity slow-pitch softball team at Baldwin High.

Baldwin's 6-6 record placed it sixth out of 12 teams, according to the WPISL's website. Other high schools with jayvee teams included Bethel Park, , and North Allegheny, among others.

Baldwin played doubleheaders on Saturdays throughout the fall. Three of the team's losses were by one run.

The WPISL, which finished its second season in the fall, does not hold playoffs at the jayvee level.

Baldwin's manager, Rip Odato, called the team's first year "a great challenge" and said that "the players were very proud to represent Baldwin High School."

Odato said that he and the team's players, all non-seniors, are excited about the future of slow-pitch softball at Baldwin, with 2012 perhaps being the first year for a varsity slow-pitch team at the high school.

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