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Hurricane Warning

Truman Hahn and Robby Schumacher

April 21, 2025

The WHB boys baseball team is looking to bounce back with a new season coming. After two rough years in a row, the team expects to make their first playoff appearance since 2020.

With the team starting up their 2025 season, Coach Grunenwald shared the goals for the season. “Our team goal is making the playoffs, but we can only get there by competing on a game to game basis. Our real goal for our team is to stay in the moment, and compete in every game, at-bat and situation we can. We feel that we have the athletes to compete on a daily basis in our league.”

With a solid group of returning players—many of them third-year varsity veteran, this season is all about turning potential into results after an intense off-season of training. The team is ready to build on last year’s progress and lean on the experienced players like Pat Fay, Cooper Daniels, Liam McGinness, Brian Danowski and Jacob Permakoff.

The experience and the athletes on the team now will let the play talk. “We all have our individual jobs and if we do them to the best of our abilities that’s how a team succeeds,” junior Jacob Permakoff, a pitcher for the Hurricanes said. He continued, “My goals are to hit above .300 and to make all league.”

As the season is about to begin, Westhampton Beach has high hopes for winning lots of games, and making the playoffs as their strong seniors and juniors look to lead them for the Hurricanes.

About the Contributors

Truman Hahn, Staff Writer

Truman, a junior at WHBHS, currently lives in Remsenburg. He was born in Brooklyn but moved to Connecticut when he was 7 years old with his parents and two siblings. At WHBHS, Truman plays basketball for Westhampton. Some of his interests include playing NBA2K with his friends and basketball training with Airnandez. A little known fact about Truman is that he used to play the violin. One of Truman’s major goals is to help lead the Westhampton basketball team to a Long Island Championship. He has hopes to join the 1,000 point club for his basketball career, and has dreams to play basketball in college. For college, he hopes to major in sports management and be a sports agent. He is most happy when watching the latest UFC fight card, and cheering on his Fantasy Football team on Sundays.

Robby Schumacher, Staff Writer

Robby is a junior at WHBHS From Remsenburg. In his free time, he likes spending time with his family, working out and playing video games. His dream is to someday watch the Knicks win an NBA championship. He plays basketball and tennis for WHB and is self-proclaimed ambidextrous. The best place Robby has traveled to is the Amalfi Coast in Italy. In the future he plans to work somewhere in the sports industry, but his goal for this year is to make the high honor roll. This is his first year writing for The Hurricane Eye.