Bishop Amat’s Torreahno Sweet shifts focus to baseball while waiting on college football offers

SWEET20By Aram Tolegian
It’s on to Plan B for some area high school football prospects whose phone never rang on signing day last week.
That means either figuring out an alternate route to the big time, or concentrating on another sport altogether. Bishop Amat’s Torreahno Sweet has chosen the latter.
Most area fans were stunned last week when the traditional recruiting process came to a close and Sweet did not receive an offer despite being one of the top running back in the Pac-5 Division this past season and setting records at Amat.
Now, Sweet has decided to put football on the back burner and focus on baseball where he’s got a chance to realize his dreams as a speedy center fielder who can switch hit.
“Baseball is kind of keeping me in the whole college/D-1 thing right now,” Sweet said. “If it happens (with football) it happens. There’s still some schools kinda looking at me.
“I would try to play both (at the next level), but if I had to play one, it would be baseball because that concussion thing, it’s scary.”
Sweet said he would consider playing football at a junior college if things don’t work out with baseball but a decision won’t be made until after baseball season.
“I was kind mad at it first, seeing my teammates sign, but at the same time if they want you, they want you and they’re going to do what they have to do to come get you,” Sweet said. “But at the end of the day, I was kind of glad that I had baseball to fall to. Because if I didn’t, that would be really bad.”

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