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Baseball from page 9 Around the infield, J.C. Mazzurco anchors the team at third base, a returning starter who will likely hit fifth in the batting order. Tim Snyder moves to shortstop. Snyder played plenty of varsity minutes at the spot last season. Andrew Centrackio will play second base. And John Monaco and Matt Byron, both seniors, will rotate at first base. Byron is 100 percent after suffereding two fractured bones in his back last season. It was hard for him to watch
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Senior catcher Ross Clark looks over during a cage scrimmage with Holy Name. Clark, like his teammates, can’t wait for the weather to break and get outside.
Wednesday, April 2, 2014
from the bench. “Sometimes I didn’t want to go to the games because I’d just sit there the whole time,” he said. Ross Clark brings experience to the catching position, which will be important for an unproven pitching staff. Clark is very optimistic about the staff. “It’s going to be great,” Clark said. “We don’t have a tip-top guy, but we have a bunch of guys. We have some depth.” “He’s great behind the plate,” his coach said. That depth includes about seven or eight arms that will start and throw from the bullpen. “We’re deeper in pitching than we
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have been in quite some time,” coach Byron said. “We have good arms. I don’t think anyone is overly exceptional. But we have a lot of variety of arms — guys that cam mix up pitches and make pitches.” Matt Byron will likely be the team’s first league-game starter. With Snyder pitching the second CVC game. League games are played back-to-back on Mondays and Tuesdays, typically. Monaco, Mazzurco, Gino Bertolone and Nate Nozling, a sophomore, round out the varsity rotation. The coach has high expecations from the young Nozling. Relief will come from Nate Ickes, Drake Force, Engoglia and Koller. The Wolverines turned a corner last year under Byron. After nine wins his first year, the team finished 14-9 last season. Both years the team finished third in the CVC with a 5-5 record, a solid showing in a solid conference. “If our health stays intact I think we’ll be pretty good,” Byron said. “I think we can improve on last year.” Yet it’s clear West Geauga will start a step behind much of its competition, given Mother Nature’s hold on winter. “It’s hard to get reps in,” said Koller. “It’s not as easy to get the same reps indoors, especially for outfielders.”
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