Head-Royce Baseball Makes Astounding Comeback, Fans in Disbelief

This just in: after a multiple-year-long losing streak, the School’s baseball team finally won their first game. It’s the underdog story we have all been waiting for! Baseball is back!

The School’s notorious losers have been victorious for the first time since Chicago Cubs shortstop and HRS alumni Nico Hoerner’s last game in 2015. 

The team had yet to see a victory until last night. On Wednesday, March 31st, the School played San Francisco High School of the Arts in a true nail-biter. It was touch and go for a while, but when their baseball team refused to take the field for the fourth inning, preferring instead to work on their landscape paintings of deepest right field, the umpires were forced to call the game, and award victory to the Jayhawks.  (Coach Jason Concannon did collect “a really great sketch of [Assistant Coach] Ben Burg — it’s an amazing likeness of him nose deep in the scorebook. That one’s going up on my wall.”)

The School couldn’t be happier for the team. “We were pretty excited last year, when they were able to convince Blakeley that Mr. Walters could pass for a student so they had enough players to field a team,” said die-hard Jayhawk baseball fan Eesha Mehta.  “But then, you know, pandemic, and all that.  So this is, like, the happiest I’ve been in — I don’t even know how long.  Maybe I’ve never even been this happy.” 

While we cannot get our hopes up too much, there is talk that maybe a winning streak is in the future for the team – not anytime soon though, but maybe when the team finds its new Nico Hoerner.  Word is there’s a kid in 3rd grade who’s got a cannon; Coach Blakeley is on it, Jayhawks, so 2027 may yet see a repeat of this week’s winning feeling.  (Plus Blakeley’s trying to schedule SF School for the Arts again, and looking into games with OSA, and the SF Ballet School.)