 The president's budget proposal eliminates public media funding. Learn how you can help at lptv.org slash action. Last year was a step in the right direction for the Bemidji softball team despite finishing the season with just an 8 and 13 record the lumberjack saw improvements in a lot of areas. Now they are looking to take that next step this year. Last year for a lumberjack team with only three seniors and little varsity experience their motto was embrace the process. Now the team is ready to take that motto one step further. A lot of positivity this year and really working together as a team because we're old or pretty old this year we have a lot of experience so the process has been worked through so we should put it into the games this year. Bemidji is eyeing a 500 season their first in four years but they know to get there it'll come down to taking what they learned last year and executing it on the field this year. This team has a lot of capability if we can get those things going and we're seeing some real good strides it's just you know the coach's situation to get everyone in the right positions and make sure that we have the best team out there and and if we can do that and they've come through we should be in good shape. They do have some areas to fill especially at pitcher but with nine seniors on the roster they have the utmost confidence in this group. Most of us are coming back around we know it's our last senior season so we really want to do our best and leave a memory on the field. I'm expecting very good things from a lot of the seniors as far as who's going to step up you know maybe it's not one person in one particular night you just got to put pressure on them and make the plays. And they say even though they haven't proven much to this point they're ready to take that next step and surprise some people. I'm hoping that you know we can be very competitive with them and show them that yeah you know you better look out for us. We're going to be upset this year I hope show everybody what we're made of. If you've enjoyed this segment of Lakeland News please consider making a tax deductible contribution to Lakeland Public Television.