Luikart said he and his batterymate are normally on the same page. “It’s like having a coach behind the plate.” “Our pitchers are comfortable with whatever Carsten calls,” Snow said.
In an era when coaches like to control every detail between the lines, first-year skipper Jason Snow allows Betson to call pitches from behind home plate. “He’s always calm and he’s always smiling.”īetson, whose twin sister Olivia pitched the Hillsdale softball team to the state semifinals last week, is a unicorn in today’s high school game. “He’s the perfect guy for the job,” Luikart said. He’s equal parts coach and psychologist and a big reason why the Falcons (28-2) are playing for the Division IV state title against Toronto at 1 p.m. But the eye-popping statistics only tell a fraction of Betson’s story.
