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CROTON-ON-HUDSON, N.Y. - The Croton Little League has only one girl playing among the boys, so 12-year-old Meghan Giordano has made sure there are no questions about whether she belongs by launching home runs and making her presence felt on the mound.
"I hit my first home run when I was eight years old at the Duck Pond Field in Croton, and I still have the ball," Giordano said. "I'm not really surprised that I am hitting home runs now."
The prodigious pitcher/slugger has already slammed four home runs and averages 10 strikeouts per game on the mound for her WECO team. She has a total of 16 home runs in her two-year-plus Little League career.
"I like pitches middle-high," Giordano said. "Eventually, I hope to play travel softball and also as a Croton (High School) Tiger."
Giordano's father and No. 1 fan, Scott Giordano, has watched his daughter compete with the boys at a high level for several years. Dad has had Meghan and her older brother Scott, an eighth-grader who is on the Croton High junior varsity team, in the batting cage for years.
"I have a five-gallon pail of balls, and we have spent many afternoons and weekends hitting," Scott Giordano said. "Meghan is the talk of the town in youth sports; everyone knows her. She plays summer travel baseball for Croton and usually bats fourth, and she also plays CYO basketball. When I run into an umpire away from baseball, the reaction is, 'Aren't you Meghan's father?'"
Scott Giordano's daughter will be hitting and throwing baseballs through the spring and expecting her home run and strikeout totals to climb.
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