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66 THE QUEENS COURIER • SEPTEMBER 28, 2017 FOR BREAKING NEWS VISIT WWW.QNS.COM
Photos by Suzanne Monteverdi/QNS
Top New York Mets prospects visit
Queens school and exercise with students
BY SUZANNE MONTEVERDI
smonteverdi@qns.com / @smont76
Th e future of the New York Mets greeted
Corona‘s future leaders for a morning
of exercise and fun.
On Sept. 26, top players in the franchise’s
the minor league system headed to
P.S. 92 to participate in physical education
class alongside the school’s third-graders.
Sterling Awards winners Luis Guillorme,
Jhoan Urena, Jordan Humphreys, Nicolas
Debora, Rigoberto Terrazas, Jaison
Vilera, Miguel Ramirez, Yoel Romero,
Luis Santana and Corey Oswalt — who
won Organizational Pitcher of the Year
— played dodgeball and soccer with the
enthusiastic group of young learners.
Mr. Met also arrived to join in on the
fun.
Aft er physical activities, the students
joined together for a question and answer
session with the baseball players. Queries
ranged from players’ workout habits,
favorite foods and opinions on homework.
Students then lined up for autographs
and high-fi ves from the players.
Th ird-grader Wilmer Vega, a Mets fan,
said he liked playing dodgeball against the
players the best. He hopes to go to a Mets
game next season.
Mets Sterling Awards winners play soccer with third-graders in Corona.
