By Ella Franzman – Editor-in-Chief 

The Jonathan Law baseball team is anxious and ready for the season to start. 

The Lawmen open on March 30 at home against New Milford with the first varsity pitch at 11 a.m. The team has been preparing very hard for this game since spring tryouts started on March 16. 

“Our team has been preparing by playing in 4 scrimmages over the course of about a week and a half,” senior captain Hunter Hoxie said. “This will help us get everyone used to pitching to batters and hitting against live pitching.” 

Along with Hoxie, the captains for this season are Alex Bludevich and Declan Wywoda. 

“Our main goal is to be playing for a state championship in June,” Assistant Coach Mr. McPartland said. “However, we are fully aware that in order to accomplish that long-term goal, we must have several micro-goals. Everyday at practice we strive to get a little bit better. ”

The Lawmen lost a handful of seniors last year, but know they have kids who will fill those roles. 

“My two goals this season are to make the state tournament and make the SCC tournament as well,” Wywoda said. “I think our team is very talented and we have the potential to have a special year.”

The team has lots of talent including five seniors who are committed to play baseball in college. Wywoda is committed to George Washington University and Hoxie and junior Michael Merchant are committed to Rutgers University.

“I am really excited to see what the team will bring when the season starts, we have been playing great in our scrimmages,” Merchant said. “I am also very excited to see how our team works together and continues to grow and get better everyday.”

Senior pitcher Brian Goglia, who is committed to Virginia Commonwealth University, agreed with Merchant, and said how eager he was for the season to start. 

“Goals for this season team wise, is to work hard on our offense and apply it to games,” senior Jaxson Smith said. “We have a great pitching staff, we just need to put runs up on the board.” 

After a strong run in the Class M state tournament, going to the second round and falling short to St. Joseph High School last year, the team believes this year will be better.  

“As a team, I think this is the year to make a run at the championship. If we can stay healthy and have all of our players on the field at all times, we are a very dangerous team,” Wywoda said. “Every player on our roster is very valuable and anyone can play at any time and make a huge impact.”