Baseball season has begun at Lewis-Palmer High School and the baseball players are breaking out their gloves and bats. The students have competed for two days for their spots on the three Lewis-Palmer High School teams, c-team, junior varsity and varsity.

“My goal was to impress the coaches and keep a good name, but I also knew not to freak myself out while trying out and just to do my best and try my hardest,” Andrew Bentley, 11, said.

Lewis-Palmer Baseball Coach, Brett Lester, is the new coach for this years season, and the players hope to have a successful baseball season. The 2015 baseball team did very well with 8-0 wins at home, and 10-2 wins at away games. The baseball players hope to continue last year’s great season and reputation.

“Lewis-Palmer baseball is a great program, we have a new coach this year and this brings on new changes and challenges, but I look forward to the new changes for the team,” Travis McDonald , 9, said.

Baseball had many players trying out for many different positions, and each felt they could contribute something to the baseball program. Each player plans on working towards another successful winning season.

“I hope I can contribute to another winning baseball season, I just love being with the team. Tryouts were important especially hitting and throwing because those two main aspects win games,” Bentley said.

Tryouts pose many challenges, they can include personal challenges and competition that is hard to beat. For these players doing their best can be the difference between making the team or being cut.

“Mostly everything is a competition because you’re always doing the best you can to try to make the team. I play because I have to show myself that I can do it, plus I mean it’s something to do other than school and other things,” McDonald said.

Players who are new to school baseball may not know what to expect while trying out. Other students who may have been on a school team previously, may have known more of what is expected in these tryouts.

“I went to all the morning practices so I feel I knew what to expect in the tryouts. Baseball means the world to me, it is my everything, my good days and my bad,” Bentley, said. “I tried out just because I wanted to play the sport I love and with a great team like ours.”