Newton’s Colby Gomez

By Matt Browning

Newton’s Colby Gomez knows how important strength in baseball is. It allows a player to become more of a threat at the plate and in the field.

So Gomez devoted so much of his offseason to the weight room, to get stronger and become an overall better player.

“I really want to improve on driving the ball deep more like I want to see more doubles, triples, and possibly a few that I can get out of the park,” Gomez said. “This winter I’ve been in the gym lifting a lot more than I ever have and I’ve also been tweaking some parts of my swing that could be simple fixes to help me with my goal.”

The Railers went just 10-10 last year, but have a promising group of players returning, which has Gomez optimistic.

“As a team, I understand what we have and what we can do so I expect nothing less than a state championship and my teammates could say the same thing,” Gomez said. “A successful season for our

team would be finishing 1st in our league and a state championship.”

Being only a junior, Gomez has some time to decide what he wants to do with his future, but he is hopeful that sports are in it.

“As of right now my plan is to play college Baseball or college Football at the D1 level,” Gomez said. “As a junior right now, I’m not entirely sure what I’m set on but I think a good opportunity might be a place like WSU where I could possibly play baseball and major in electrical engineering.”