By Maya Markowitz – Staff Reporter

Jonathan Law’s baseball team recently finished the regular season with a 10-10 record.

The Lawmen are now advancing to states. After beating Weston, they met the qualifications for the Class M playoffs.

The team is extremely happy with this achievement, and excited to move forward. 

“We had a slow start to the season with a record of 2-5, but now we are 10-10, which is enough to qualify for states,” junior Hunter Hoxie said. 

Senior captain Aidan Ryan was impressed with the team after their huge turnaround mid-season. He is hopeful for what the rest of the season will bring. 

“We qualified for the state tournament with a very tough schedule,” Ryan said. “We also won games against teams that we haven’t beaten in a while so I feel we can make a very far run come playoffs” 

This year, Law defeated Foran, their cross-town rival, twice. The team has not swept Foran prior to the current season since 2014. 

The strength of the team all year has been the pitching staff led by Hoxie, juniors Brian Goglia, Jaxson Smith, and Declan Wywoda, and sophomore Michael Merchant.

With the season coming to a successful end, the team was able to reflect on the challenges that they faced. 

“I would say that one of our biggest challenges was the difficulty of our schedule this year,” junior Jaxson Smith said. “We played teams like St. Joseph’s and Notre Dame because of how far we made it last year.” 

One of goals the Lawmen set for themselves at the end of last year was to make it states again. With practice, the team focused on their weaknesses, which allowed them to improve over the duration of the season.

“One of our mantras is ‘get a little better every day,'” assistant coach Mr. McPartland said. “Every day, we make a conscious effort as a team to focus on what we can control and on getting a little better that day.”

The team will have a week of practice before competing in their first round of the State Tournament on May 27.