ORRICK – With roughly half of Orrick’s softball team consisting of underclassmen, skipper Zach McGill and assistant coach Tom Pierce have spent “a lot of time teaching” as the Bearcats enter the season, McGill said. Out of necessity, they have spent considerable time teaching the young Bearcats about pitching. “Pitching is our big depth issue,” McGill, in his second season of leading the program, said March 17. Overall, teaching the girls to pitch is “going well,” McGill said. “It’s just a slow process, as is any game. … This one’s probably more of a reps game than all of them,” he said. Softball pitching is a skill that requires lots of reps, and “an art,” McGill said. In that sense, softball is different from baseball, which he played at Richmond High School, in junior college and at the NAIA level before assistant coaching at Richmond. “There’s a lot more body movement,” he said. “Although the softball pitch itself is a more natural action, there is something about pitching…