17-year-old will be youngest in squad for softball worlds in Canada.
Cole Evans didn’t have Mark Sorenson’s number in his phone when the Black Sox coach called with the news he will be the youngest in the New Zealand softball squad for next month’s world championships in Canada. But he does now.
Despite trialing earlier in the year, the 17-year-old Mt Albert Grammar School Year 13 student and centre infielder says he had no inkling he was on the Black Sox radar.
“I didn’t think I would get a look-in, with the amount of talent in New Zealand, and especially in the position I play.”
Sorenson spoke of Evans having the x-factor, a big call on one so young, but then he was just 16 when he got the call-up to the 1984 world champs. His philosophy is clearly if you are good enough, you are old enough.
Evans seems like a grounded young man – his grandfather and MAGS premier coach Stu Kinghorn helps ensure that – but he is confident he will have what it takes should he receive game-time at the champs.
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