 Well, more on this Warriors baseball team for most of the players on this roster. It's been a long journey dating back to their freshman year, but now they get set for one last postseason ride. Ask any high school coach in any sport experience plus seniors usually equals victories. We'll help for the Deer River baseball team. They have 12 seniors and a core of five that have started since freshman year. It's been quite a trip these last four years. We started out, I had five of these guys start when they were freshmen and that's the most freshmen starters I ever had, 12 seniors this year. I've never had 12 seniors on a ball team before. And this group led by these 12 seniors have brought their A game this season, ranked number six in class single A and already surpassing the win total from a year ago. We got something special, 12 seniors for any schools. You know, something pretty special and especially for a small school, it's pretty rare. One of the biggest things is we're all friends, so we've all kind of stuck with it. That includes a trip to state as sophomores with seven cracking the everyday starting lineup, a taste that still lingers with this group. There's a lot of fire, every guy wants it. I mean, everyone wants to go out on top our senior year, so everyone knows what it takes and what we have to do. With the depth and experience on this roster, it really shows with their pitching staff. A position they feel goes pretty deep. Being a single A school, not a lot of teams around here have as many pitchers as we have. We have three to four guys who can be an ace on any given team, I feel like. And we have seven, eight, nine, ten guys that can pitch. But that's not the only strength of this ball club that averaged just under ten runs a game and hit around 330 as a team. With the seniors, they've seen so many different pitchers. You've seen so many different pitches. And a lot of the pitchers we face have also come growing up with us, and that experience beats all. The regular season and their careers nearing its end, D River hopes its final chapter is just getting started. We all want to get back there. We all are hungry. We've off season work. I mean, we have wanted and waited for this. It would be the best experience of my life. It would be awesome. I mean, everybody in the dugout wants this. Everybody. We come to play and that's what we do. The Warriors already locked up the Northern Lakes Conference crown and hope to add to that beginning next week in sections. If you've enjoyed this segment of Lakeland News, please consider making a tax-deductible contribution to Lakeland Public Television.