PENFIELD, N.Y. (WHEC) – On July 14, baseballs will be back, back, back, and GONE in the MLB Home Run Derby! On Thursday in Penfield, Little Leaguer players got to swing for the fences in their own version of the fun competition.
“Gotta be strong and have good timing,” said Bennett Sierens, who won the boy’s division.
Bennett blasted 10 home runs for the win while Emily Orlando won the girl’s side. And both of these young scholar athletes have players they look up to.
“I look up to my dad because he’s a softball player,” said Orlando. “My sister’s really good and I look up to them because they both help me be good.”
“My favorite player is Freddie Freeman,” said Sierens. “(He) has a lot of extra base hits and doubles so just hitting for power and contract.”
Right now these kids are competing on a Little League field but in a few years they have dreams of making it to the big leagues.
“Played baseball since Kindergarten and started really liking it last year, because it was the first year I was pretty good. I was hitting over .500 batting average, so that was the first time I really started liking baseball a lot,” said Sierens.
And the secret to getting there? Apparently, not really a secret at all.
“More training, training, lot’s of training,” said Sierens.
“Practicing a lot and putting in time for it,” said Orlando.
Far away from competing in Section Five, but still worthy of being our Scholar Athletes of the Week.
Scholar Athletes of the Week: Little League HR Derby champs WHEC.com.
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