Demopolis High hosting baseball camp Saturday

The Demopolis High School Tigers start their season in earnest Saturday when they conduct their annual youth baseball camp. The event is $25 per child and takes place at the Demopolis High baseball field where campers will have the opportunity to work on the skills of the game under the tutelage of DHS baseball players.

“I don’t think we’re really in it to make a lot of money. It’s amazing the number of kids that are on our team right now that attended that camp when they were young. I was always told when I was younger and started getting into college and all that you give back. That’s part of it,” Demopolis High School baseball coach James Moody said. “It is a small fundraiser, but it’s a good thing for our kids because they have to make themselves accountable to teach the little ones what they want them to do. So they get to kind of put the coaching shoe on and deal with that.”

The event is for children ages 5-12 and begins at 9:30 a.m. Campers ages 5-8 will be part of the first session and will work from 10 a.m. until noon before partaking in a pizza lunch until 12:30 p.m. Children ages 9-12 will start with lunch before taking the second session from 1-3 p.m.

“He’ll get it all. We break them up into two sessions. We do a defensive session and an offensive session. Within each of those sessions, there’s probably five or six rotations of different things they’ll get to do,” Moody said of the experience for campers. “They’ll go through all the hitting drills. They’ll go through the pitching. They’ll go through fly balls, groundballs, base running and all of that. We try to hit it all and our goal is that when they leave, they’re tired.”

Demopolis High baseball boosters will also be cooking Boston butts Saturday to cap off another annual fundraiser. Individuals who purchased a Boston butt to be picked up Thursday or Friday can do so in the baseball parking lot beginning at 5 p.m. Those picking up Saturday can claim their Boston butt across the street.