A team is taught to never give up, no matter the circumstances.
In the case of the Jamaica High School baseball team, they never did.
In the '08 season the Jamaica Beavers started off the season at a staggering 0-5. By the sixth game of the season, things looked up for the Beavers, as the Beavers defeated the August Martin Falcons 9-4. Things got a little worse when the team, at 2-7, beat August Martin one more time but lost to Van Buren two more times. As PSAL rules state, a team must be at .500 or third in their division to make the playoffs, so things didn't look good for the Beavers.
After winning three straight, Jamaica lost the most crushing loss: 8-4 to Campus Magnet. At 4-8, the whole team was just feeling down, but with the leadership of their seniors (Barat Ramlall, Jonathan Lazzaro, Umar Kahn, and Nohar Ramlall) they continued to play.
Jamaica then went on to win the remaining four games to make their record 8-8.
With the days passing by slowly, the Beavers waited to see if they made it to the playoffs. A couple days later, they found out that they made it and an even tougher foe awaited them in Benjamin Benneker Academy . With the whole season in this one game, the Beavers tried their hardest but fell to Benneker 10-1.
But the story is not that the Beavers lost in the playoffs; it is that even in the tough times and at 0-5, the Beavers pulled together as a team and made it to the playoffs. They showed the heart, the courage, the drive, and the will to never back down.
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