Ellensburg's season rides on the young arms of their two returning starting pitchers. If those two can step it up as Juniors and add to their success as sophomores, they could do well. Josh Kopczynski has got to be a force at the plate and behind it as well, becoming even more of a leader than he already is. Nick Cawley-Murphree will have to take his immense knowledge, love, and hard working attitude for the game and turn it into a breakout season, and David Huitron has got to find his sweet switch hitting stroke at the plate, improving on his already great defensive capabilities.
It's going to be tough for them losing 3 outstanding coaches from last season however, as Coach Smith, Coach Garrow, and Coach Rittereiser have all moved on. Whomever they hire as JV coach has alot of organizing and planning to do, picking up the slack from those three coaches last year who did over 90% of that stuff.
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