Coach’s comments: “We lost several seniors but return with a really good nucleus with four starters. They bring leadership, experience and obviously ability. We have some inexperience but will be a totally different team. Our strength on defense will be up the middle with our experience there. Each player in the field will have to be in the proper position to make plays. We’ll definitely have less power. Last year we had a lot of free swingers; this year we will have a lot of grind-out at-bats. I think we will have to be more disciplined at the plate. We have the pitching to make a deep run, but it will all come down to how many runs we can score.”