By Gene Robbins, Managing Editor
Serving a plateful of pancakes may not require the same skill as turning the double play, but Hillsborough High School baseball players proved they can be capable at the culinary skill Sunday at their annual fund-raising pancake breakfast.
About 70 student-athletes showed up in their uniform for the day — a white shirt, tie, dark pants and hard shoes — to take meal orders for more than 600 people who kept the multi-purpose room of the municipal building full for several hours.
The money will help the team with uniform items, hats, field maintenance, sandwiches at away post-games, and special projects, like artificial turf in the battng cages or new backstops.
As importantly, said Howard Kanter, an organizer with the booster club, the breakfast gives the boys a pre-season reminder on discipline and the responsibilities of work. He said Coach Eric Eden sent the boys an email detailing how they were expected to dress and act; players in the past have been sent home if they didn’t conform to the dress code.
Coach Eden said he expects to have 7 or 8 letterwinners back this year. Last year the Raiders went 14-13, but got hot at the end of the year and won the Somerset County tournament.
Practice begins March 4.
