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<strong>May</strong> <strong>2018</strong> <strong>Medway</strong> & Millis Local Town Pages www.localtownpages.com Page 25<br />
Sports<br />
Tim Smith Hones His Focus on Baseball<br />
By Christopher Tremblay<br />
As a three-sport athlete at Millis<br />
High School, Tim Smith found<br />
himself suiting up for basketball,<br />
baseball and football for the Mohawks.<br />
He began shooting baskets<br />
at a very young age and began<br />
playing the sport year-round,<br />
however, as he got older, he let go<br />
of basketball to concentrate on his<br />
back for the baseball season, but<br />
he worked extremely hard and<br />
was able to make it back to play<br />
the entire season,” Millis Coach<br />
Mike Carter said.<br />
With his injury slowing down<br />
his junior campaign on the diamond,<br />
Smith decided to take precautions<br />
in the sport he loves the<br />
most.<br />
season finale, he had two big hits<br />
against Pope John Paul and his<br />
confidence was soaring.<br />
“His sophomore campaign,<br />
we were struggling as a team, and<br />
his presence in the lineup rejuvenated<br />
us and gave us life again<br />
in the lineup. He’s a professional<br />
player and he helped up with that<br />
big win over DS,” Carter said.<br />
“He has an impressive mentality<br />
with a great mindset of the game.<br />
He’ll take any advice that is given<br />
to him and work on improving it.”<br />
The senior first baseman will<br />
find himself batting in the heart of<br />
Coach Carter’s lineup either at the<br />
third hole or the cleanup position.<br />
“I’m a contact hitter with some<br />
power, but I’m not going to be hitting<br />
any 400 foot homers anytime<br />
soon,” he said. “I would like to<br />
work on my swing and improve<br />
my power hitting.”<br />
Coach Carter believes that<br />
Smith has come a long way at the<br />
plate since his freshman year at<br />
Millis.<br />
“He really has come a long<br />
way in terms of power and<br />
has worked hard to develop his<br />
swing,” the Coach said. “We are<br />
going to lean on him heavily this<br />
year.”<br />
As Millis battles for the right<br />
to get back to the State Tournament,<br />
Smith is hoping that when<br />
once his high school career comes<br />
to an end that he can still continue<br />
to play baseball on the next level.<br />
Smith will be attending Westfield<br />
State College next fall majoring in<br />
Criminal Justice, but he is hoping<br />
that he’ll be playing baseball for<br />
the Division 3 Owls as a walk on.<br />
Great physical therapy and a<br />
lot of work has put Tim Smith<br />
back in the swing again in Millis<br />
baseball.<br />
first love – baseball. Then during<br />
his junior campaign on the gridiron,<br />
he tore his labrum, and his<br />
football season was done.<br />
Original diagnostics showed<br />
that he most likely wasn’t going to<br />
see any action that spring on the<br />
baseball diamond, but Smith had<br />
different ideas.<br />
“They told me that I would<br />
probably be out about six months,<br />
but I had a really good physical<br />
therapist and four or five months<br />
later, I was good to go,” the Millis<br />
senior said. “The football injury<br />
slowed my baseball season down,<br />
and at first, I wasn’t fully confident<br />
in my arm, so I started playing fall<br />
ball for the first time to build up<br />
my stamina.”<br />
Returning ahead of schedule<br />
allowed Smith to take part in the<br />
Mohawks season.<br />
“Tim wasn’t even expected<br />
“When I got hurt in football,<br />
it put me behind the eight ball<br />
for the baseball season,” the first<br />
baseman said. “I didn’t want that<br />
to happen again, so I didn’t play<br />
football this past season, but instead<br />
concentrated on baseball.”<br />
Smith began playing first base<br />
early in his career. He also dabbled<br />
at the hot corner as well, but felt<br />
that first was a better fit for him,<br />
especially by the time he got to<br />
high school, where the Mohawks<br />
already had themselves a capable<br />
third baseman on the team.<br />
“I think it was around third or<br />
fourth grade when I first started<br />
playing first base and just stuck<br />
with it,” Smith said. “I played<br />
the position well before I actually<br />
had a first baseman mitt. In fact,<br />
I originally found my first mitt at<br />
the ball park.”<br />
Upon entering Millis High<br />
School, Smith found himself<br />
fielding ground balls for the Junior<br />
Varsity team his first two seasons,<br />
but with only two games remaining<br />
in the regular season during<br />
his sophomore year he got the call<br />
up to the Varsity team. In his very<br />
first Varsity game, he went 3-3 at<br />
the plate with a RBI in a 2-1 win<br />
over Dover Sherborn, and in the<br />
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