 Well, a section championship and trip to state last year netted a sixth season of success for the Midget Boys soccer team. Fast forward to 2017 and even with a few new faces, expectations still remain high. 18 wins in the first section title and program history last year gives a Midget Boys soccer team something pretty good to build off of. We've been a program now for 25 years and and we've been obviously building to get to that that next step and we've been in that championship game for years several times. And even though the core might be young the experience is very veteran-like including eight starters returning on the pitch. We have a lot of young guys but I think we have a lot of young guys with experience. We played three freshmen last year when we went to state three started and a lot came off the bench and we have some sophomores that will be juniors. Now replacing players like Leo Spry and Brandon Wright will be tough but the Jacks feel very confident in their balance. One thing we don't need to worry about it's their scoring this year and yeah we have multiple guys that can put the ball in the net. We're real comfortable with with the talent that we have you know I've got a pool of 15 16 guys that I'm real comfortable putting anyone of them on the field. Back on the field this season and reunited with his twin sophomore brothers, senior defensive midfielder Luke Hess who missed all of last season with an ACL injury. It's great this this team is like my family so it's nice to be back out here with the guys so just sit on the sideline watching them do them. It's really nice especially as a brother you know it's really nice to be out there with all three of us now and uh should be a lot of fun to see what we can do out there all together. So with a mixture of upper and lower classmen in the core with experience having success the squad is at site set for another section title run and return trip to state. Obviously we've got a target on our back when in the section last year so we just got to make sure we maintain the consistency. We have a lot of young guys and they're hungry to win games and I think just staying competitive in practice and preparing for that section final game again to get back to state that's going to keep us motivated every day. You can catch the Jack's first game Thursday August 24th at the middle school 3 p.m against Walker Hackensack Akely. If you've enjoyed this segment of Lakeland News please consider making a tax deductible contribution to Lakeland Public Television.