BUILDING A SOUTH RANGE STANDARD

CANFIELD OH- As South Range softball makes their program’s third trip to state, we wanted to reflect a little bit on the team that rose the bar for the program. The current success of the program turned in 2010. That season South Range won their first district championship since 2001.  That team got to the regional finals before losing, the next year’s team won another district before falling to eventual state champion, Champion. The bar was set though. Between 2010-2016 the Raiders won 4 district championships. They kept knocking at the door to state, and in 2016 the Raiders finally kicked the door down.  After their programs first regional championship, the Raiders won their state semifinal in dominating fashion. They may have dropped the final game of the season, but the standard for the program had already been set. The community got a taste for that kind of success and they hit the ground running.

Caragyn Yanek, now Caragyn Young dazzled in the circle for South Range through that run in 2016.  Caragyn followed two older sisters in the South Range program that showed her exactly how it was done.  That Raider team gathered up 30 wins on the season and Caragyn was a big reason why.  Now she still has her handprints in the program. She coaches players around the area, including Raiders current ace Juli Stachowicz as well as Samantha Susany.  She sees a lot of similarities between her team and this one. Caragyn and her team set the tone, and now the Raiders are answering the call.

Caragyn took time out of her day to talk with YSN’s Anthony Hartwig about her team in 2016, and what she’s seeing out of this team now. They discuss what makes the Raiders team so consistently good, how proud the current success makes her to be a Raider, and so much more. Check out this exclusive interview with one of South Range softball’s legends of the past only on YSN!

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