As the season is ending, we wanted to highlight a great player in Antwan Cardona. Cardona is having a great season right now for the Bears and helping them have a 15-1 record while also being ranked number 2 in the whole state. But in this story, we wanted to highlight something else, something that doesn’t often get highlighted in baseball, and it’s the skill of stealing bases. Antwan recently broke the Norwalk Bears stolen base record and surpassed his very own coach’s record. Coach Mitchell has had the stolen base record for 20+ years, with 29 stolen bases in a single season for the Norwalk bears when he played, but… that has been broken by senior Antwan cardona with 33 stolen bases in counting this season for the Norwalk Bears doing something no one has done yet in a bears uniform.

He started stealing on varsity during freshman year. He stated that he started to think about the record during his junior year and hoped to break it. He works on stealing and his techniques every practice to try and get better at timing the pitch. He says the reason he is so good at this skill of stealing bases by watching the rhythm of the stretch and windup depending on the pitcher he is facing. One thing a lot of baseball players don’t do that Cardona does is watch film he says the reason he is so good at it is because when he watches film he learns the timing so when “he gets in the game it is just muscle memory”.

As the regular season is coming to an end and the bears are getting ready for their playoff run, Cardona believes he will end the season with 50 stolen bases, he says he’s definitely capable of doing it and he’s ready to make this record even bigger then it is. Keep watching out for Antwan Cardona.