The unique sounds of Michael Jackson, My Chemical Romance and Southern rapper T.I. filter through the chain link fence surrounding the Mt. Hood softball field as each player enters the batter’s box.

As each Saint approaches home plate in a different manner, whether swinging their bat to-and-fro’ or knocking the dirt from each cleat, they are greeted by their own trademark batting song.

And MHCC student Skyler Ashbaugh is the man who makes sure of it.

Ashbaugh, a sports marketing major, was asked by head softball coach Meadow McWhorter last season to take charge of the music controls and since then, he has never looked back.

“I’m friends with a lot of the girls on the team,” he said. “So I get paid for going to something that I would probably be at anyway.”

The former Mt. Hood basketball player, who works at the Red Robin restaurant in Gresham Station when he is not controlling the music at home softball games, said that his least favorite thing about working the games is when the weather is not enough to cancel a game, but is still less than perfect. “I don’t like it when the weather is bad,” he said. “The games don’t get cancelled unless it is really pouring, though, or when there is lightning, because of the metal bats.”

Ashbaugh will transfer to Oregon State in the fall to pursue his marketing degree and will leave the softball team behind, but he said he will miss the games, McWhorter, and the player.