After 5 winless years, Schaeffer Academy in midst of home-run season
May 18—ROCHESTER — The start of the spring season marked nearly five years since the Schaeffer Academy baseball team last won a game. The losing streak finally broke when the Lions defeated Houston 8-5 in their season opener on April 9. Schaeffer Academy did not field a baseball team in 2023 and the program has been rebuilding ever since.
An argument could be made that the rebuild dates back further than that. During the 2021 season, the Lions recorded two wins. The following year, they finished 0-21.
2024 and 2025 saw winless seasons as well. All of that is in the past now. This spring, the Lions are 5-8 heading into the Section 1, Class 1A tournament, which begins Wednesday.
It's the most wins a Schaeffer baseball team has tallied since the 2018-19 season, when the Lions went 6-14. Also, for the first time in years, Schaeffer sits in the middle of the Southeast Conference standings as opposed to last place. "When you're in a really small school, you can have these ebbs and flows of big classes or class interests, and it was just a low time for baseball," third-year head coach Justin Osborne said.
"When I took it over three years ago, I had two seniors. I had one junior who was (in) his first year of organized baseball and I had seventh and eighth graders. And then last year, I had two seniors who didn't really play baseball.
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