Mayo — Lafayette High School varsity baseball coach Jamie Fike and junior varsity baseball coach Chuck Hewett recently provided an insight into what’s ahead for baseball season.

Head football coach Joey Pearson commented, “They started out this season 2-0, so they are coming in as an undefeated team.”

JV Coach Hewett said, “Herbert Perry is my assistant. It’s always good to have somebody with 10 years major league experience as your coach. We had an agreement. You do the coaching and I’ll do all the managerial stuff.”

Hewett said everything is working out well. They currently have five 9th graders, nine 8th graders and one 7th grader on the team.

“We’re 3-0 already,” Hewett said. “We have wins over Madison, McClay and Melody.”

The team, Hewett said, is a young team, but they are a quality team and he has hopes that they will be competing in state championships just like the girls softball team has done. He also said he appreciates all the support from local businesses and the entire community.

Varsity coach Fike said his team is also a very young team with a lot of 10th graders.

“Right now we have two juniors in the whole program,” said Fike.

There are five seniors, the two juniors, and the rest of the team are 10th graders. They are currently at 2-0 for the season.

“We’re excited about where we’re at,” said Fike. “We finished the year strong last year.”

The varsity team, Fike said, has beaten Jefferson and Melody already. The match up with Melody he said was a fantastically cold game.

 “It’s the only game I think I’ve ever coached where I put my hoodie on and I don’t coach in a hoodie,” Fike said. “I lost my hat and had to run it down. If you’ve ever seen a big guy running, it wasn’t very entertaining,” he added laughing.

All kidding aside, Fike said both the varsity and junior varsity teams are moving in the right direction and he is expecting big things from them this year and the years to come.

Fike explained that all the boys who enter the baseball program are required to sign a contract, along with their teachers and their parents.

“The goal of the contract is essentially, we want to hold ourselves to a higher degree of standards than what the school says that we’re going to hold ourselves to,” said Fike. “We try to emphasize that when you’re wearing that hat, that jacket or that sweatshirt and it says Lafayette Baseball, you’re not just you. You’re representing yourselves, your families, extended families, the school and the folks who have played in the program before.”