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The NS baseball team had a superior start this season, but has struggled to win games since they’ve been back from spring break.
“We started out really well,” said head varsity coach Daniel Christensen. “We had a really good first half to the season. After spring break, we’ve struggled; we need to get back on track.”
During spring break the team didn’t practice, which made it harder to get back into game mode.
“Before spring break it was pretty good, but after it has been rough,” junior Zane Tibbs said. “We lost our groove and we didn’t practice, so now we’re just trying to get back to where we were.”
The team has been able to practice since then, but they still haven’t brought it back to their previous level of performance yet. The team’s overall record is 11-9, and 4-6 in the league.
“We had a lack of practice during spring break and everything sort of fell apart,” senior Keegan Eliason said.
The team has trouble hitting the ball. Some players hit, but others are struggling to find their swing.
“We need to hit better,” Eliason said. “If there is one thing I could change it would be the way we’ve been hitting.”
Christensen agrees that the team has a lot to fix to get back into their winning groove.
“Right now we need to work on everything,” Christensen said. “We did a lot of things really well in the beginning of the season, but now we’ve made way too many errors and we need to fix that.”
Besides batting, the team gets into a slump when they make errors during a game, which sometimes makes them play worse.
“We tend to get down on ourselves when we either make mistakes or are losing,” Tibbs said.
Despite the turn the season has taken, this season still been exceptional compared to previous years.
“This is the best season North Sanpete has had in years,” Eliason said.
The team wishes they could have played as well as they did in the beginning for the last couple of games, but they can all agree that this season has been a good one.
“Our season has been going very well. We have had ups and downs through the season, but that’s alright, most teams do,” senior Tanner Madsen said.
Although the team hasn’t been doing the best, they are all still getting along as teammates and friends.
“All of the players are really good friends,” Eliason said. “We’re all really close. We like each other.”
Throughout the course of the season, the team has still maintained their close relationships with one another.
“The relationships I have with my teammates is very personal,” Madsen said. “I feel like I am very close with them, and I could trust them with anything I need.”
