The boys’ baseball team started their season with high expectations. “Our goal was to make the playoffs and move past the first round ,since we haven’t been able to do that the past two years,” Junior Mark Zurick said.
The boys ended their season with a record of 5-9.
For the past five years, the goal of playoffs has been achieved. Unfor-tunately, this year the team was not able to do so.
“It’s definitely a let down to not make playoffs, but that will just make us work harder to make playoffs next year,” Junior Matt Feits said.
Even without making playoffs, the team still had an enjoyable year. Senior Colin Macon’s favorite mem-ory from this season was the game played against Brentwood. Freedom started out down by 10 points. Even though they were so far behind, they managed to win the game, with a fi-nal score of 20-19. “It was the most ridiculous game I’ve ever been a part of,” Macon said.
While underclassmen are look-ing forward to next year’s season, the seniors are reflecting on all of their positive baseball memories. One of the things that will be missed the most is, “playing with everyone I grew up with and played with from the start,” Macon said.
With the loss of a handful of seniors next year, the baseball team is going to need to fill in some gaps. Macon believes that if the team can bat better and has good pitching, they will be able to be even more success-ful in future seasons.
Zurick agrees with Macon for he is looking forward to, “competing and making the playoffs again next year,” Zurick said.