The baseball season closes its doors and for Piacenza it is time to take stock after a year characterized by salvation in Serie B and intense youth activity. The objectives set eight months ago were brilliantly achieved, but in a way that was only apparently simple: the B group proved to be tough and balanced and having obtained an early place in the category is certainly an important result. What further embellishes this result is the fact that the squad available to Andrea D’Auria was very young, a consequence of the drastic review of the staff for the benefit of various prospects from the youth sector.
The first team and the Under 18 team traveled hand in hand, closely linked by the sharing of several athletes who were not yet of age and who, with the necessary support of some more experienced teammates, were the protagonists of a performance that was not at all predictable on the eve of the championship. Even the first round ended in third place, beyond all expectations; and it’s a shame that a more subdued return reduced the ranking to a still significant final sixth place. But what counted most was the approach taken towards the probative examination of Serie B: an experience which also proved to be important in the youth field, if it is true that the U18, for the second consecutive year (the year spent in the franchise with Brescia), reached the national semi-finals, entering the Italian top 16.
In 2025 a large part of the squad will remain in the category and there are already those who are thinking big in light of the results achieved in the last two years. An intriguing future, with a B destined to grow also in its ambitions and a U18 which could represent the flagship of the entire movement and with the rest of the youth sector will renew its vitality almost certainly presenting an additional formation, namely the ‘U12, in addition to U14 and U8 minibaseball already on the field in the season just ended. In the coming months the activity will see its continuity, albeit partial, with the indoor outings of the little ones and the preparation of the seniors in view of the spring competitive resumption. The major work will fall to the technical area, aimed at applying the right corrective measures which in the aim would lead to an even more competitive B.
