Baseball team starts practice, gears up for season

by Jake Richards

With the weather warming up more and more every day its only a matter of time before the dust on the baseball diamond gets kicked up with the start of baseball season. Even though the boys basketball team is gunning for 20-0 and a long tournament run, it’s not too early to focus on baseball.

Losing four senior players from last year’s team, the team and new head coach, Coach Hodos have high hopes for this season. This year they have a more experienced team coming back with some new players added on. The senior players coming back from last year are Clark Pelham, Chase Weber, Zach Vanlerberg, and Adam Anspaugh, with some new talent coming from senior Justin Fish being added.

The guys are ecstatic about the season and can’t wait to get on the diamond and play ball. “I’m pretty excited about playing this year, it’s my senior year so I figured I should play every sport I can,” said Fish. “We are going to have a sweet team this year” said junior Wesley Smith. “I think one of our biggest strengths is our infield; we are all experienced,” said junior Seth Weber. “We have a lot of solid hitters,” said Pelham. All of them seemed very eager to play and had a positive thought of how their season would turn out.

The team also has a lot of important strengths. “We have a lot of returnees from last year, so the team isn’t lacking any experience. We also have a solid line of good pitchers to choose from too, so that’s a big strength we have, but we are going to have to work on some things. I see us having a really promising season ahead of us,” said Coach Hodos.