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Shane Roebuck, baseball

By Mike Ciarochi mciarochi@heraldstandard.Com 4 min read
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Shane Roebuck is a living, breathing reminder of the phrase that says the acorn doesn’t fall far from the tree.

He is the son of Brownsville athletic director and baseball coach Skooter Roebuck (his mom is Andrea Roebuck), but Shane, a senior who carries a 3.2 GPA at Brownsville, doesn’t want to be an athletic director or, at least not yet, a baseball coach.

He plans to study criminal justice in college, but he’ll mostly play the sport he loves, baseball, just like his dad did.

His unique combination of academics and athleticism got Roebuck Brownsville’s spring sports male selection in the Centennial Chevrolet Scholar/Athlete Spotlight program. 

“I will study criminal justice to become either a police officer or something in government,” Shane Roebuck said. “I do plan on playing baseball in college and I have visited a few schools, but I would like to go south. I’m still looking.”

Roebuck, like his dad, plays catcher on the high school team. He is hitting over .600 this season for the 15-2 Falcons, who enter the WPIAL Class AA playoffs as the No. 2 seed.

“I plan on playing catcher in college and there are a few schools who have shown an interest in me,” Roebuck said. “There’s an NAIA called Asbury in Kentucky and a junior college in Tennessee, plus I’ve been in contact with coach Chase Rowe at LaRoche College in Pittsburgh.”

“If it was up to me, which it isn’t, he’ll go local so I could go watch him play. He wants to go where it’s a little bit warmer,” Skooter Roebuck said. “I’d like to see him stay close and go to LaRoche or even Cal U. I think they have an interest in him.”

“My dad played at Charleston Southern, then transferred to Cal U,” Shane Roebuck said. “Charleston Southern is not bad. I just want to get out of this weather and be able to play every day.”

Shane Roebuck also played football at Brownsville. This past fall, he took advantage of an opportunity to play fall baseball for the Allegheny Pirates, which kept him out of all but the last few football games for the Falcons.

“My dad got a call from the coach of the Allegheny Pirates,” Shane Roebuck said. “I guess he saw me play or heard about me from someone and wanted me to play, so that’s how I got on. After that season was done, I was able to come back and play football. The fall baseball team was a very good experience, very good competition. I played catcher for them, too.”

It hasn’t been all fun and games for the Roebucks, dad coaching son.

“Four four years, I’ve been scared to death,” Skooter Roebuck said. “I’m still at the point that I don’t know if I pushed him too much or not enough. He probably deserved a lot more credit than he got. I hope it’s not hurting him in recruitment. The All-Conference stuff I don’t get to vote for my own guys. Now I’m thinking that I should have mentioned him more, but I’m obviously quite proud of him and the fact that he made a lot of these all-conference teams on his own.” 

“My dad, obviously, has had the greatest influence on me as an athlete,” Shane Roebuck said. “He has always helped me out and taught me how to play. He was a football coach here, as well.”

“I hate to say it because he’s my kid, but he is one of the hardest working kids I ever coached,” Skooter Roebuck said. “He may take 200 swings at practice them go home and take 200 more off the tee. Him and Ralph Rice’s son Chad, they have got to be 1 and 1a in terms of working hard.”

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