Marika Lysczcyk, 18, has been playing baseball with the boys since she was six. And she hopes to continue playing college ball with the men next year.
When Marika Lyszczyk played her first game this season with the Whalley Chiefs baseball team, the all-boys’ baseball team, she made history as the first female to play in the senior B.C. Premier Baseball League .
She also played softball for a girls team but chose in Grade 7 between the two similar, but different, games. She catches and pitches, but it’s her pitching skills that give her the best shot at playing with the men at a higher level, say others familiar with the game.A pitcher doesn’t need to throw 90 m.p.h., if they know how to mix-up pitches or make them move, he said.
Scott Mackenzie, director of female programming at Baseball B.C., said he isn’t familiar with Lyszczyk’s playing lately, but said, “I would hope she would be able to crack that lineup” at the college level. He agreed the most likely position for a women to compete in against men would be pitcher because a catcher needs to be able to jump up and throw 180 feet to second base to prevent a steal, and to block balls that are coming in at 90 m.p.h.
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