Pitching WILL NOT be an issue for Heritage this year. They have a deep pitching staff with a total of 7 or 8 kids who all have the ability to go deep in a game.
Heritage does basically have the same talent besides losing 2-3 seniors. The thing is all of these kids have improved signigficantly this year. I believe last year it was just young talent, looking at those Seniors can be rough on some of them. With the size of this team it will be no problem this year.
I'd be looking for the whole line-up to be able smash the ball.
1.Walker - Senior, Hit 9 homeruns last year
2.Mitchell - Senior, Best all around hitter probably in the district, hit 3 homeruns in just 1 game last season.
3.Allison - Junior, who hit a few out last year, has the power to do real damage now.
4.Piercefield - Junior, who hit .500+ Batting Average last season, has power too.
5.Denton - Junior, who has the be the best 9th hitter in the Region. This kid can hit anything.
6.Turner - Sophomore, left handed hitter who will be great, has the power for long balls.
7.Swonsen- Sophomore, hit 3 homeruns in summer ball. Great hitting!!
You can prepare all you want, when you get to this team it's just not going to be good enough.
In other news, I've heard that East Robertson is suppossed to be great. I would like to kindly decline this. They have a pitching staff of 2 Seniors and 1 Freshmen, they are just not going to be deep enough.
Does Jo Byrns still have all those big boys from last year? How many seniors did they lose?