A fresh start at district title

Baseball players aim for district title.

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Patrick Madigan
March 25, 2009
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Perfection through repetition. In sports, this phrase is used constantly. For the Legacy baseball team, the wisdom of this phrase is taking shape. Their black cleats kiss the grass of the diamond.

When the team leaves the study hall in the math wing of the third floor, the players have exactly five minutes to make the trip three stories down and two hundred yards to the locker room. John Bimmerle makes it clear the focus level needed to have a better season than the last.

“When you walk through that locker room door, it’s the first sign telling you that its time for practice.”

For a few silent seconds, the frantic craziness of the trip down to ‘the room’ is muted, only to be disturbed once again when the team sprints from the lockers to the green gate opening to the field on the third base line. Perpetually, each member of the team tosses their gloves and their bats over the fence and begins their fence line, using the wall they each hope to crank a home run over as guidance. They have done this before.

The stretch begins.

In six equal lines, the players stretch in unison, and Bimmerle makes his message clear.

“We’re making changes,” he tells his players. “You’re making changes. It’s all for the better.”

Those changes hopefully will bring the Broncos to the top of district 8-4A, a district headlined by Joshua, perennial baseball power, and Granbury.

“We’re expecting success,” outfielder Jason Thompson said. “We’re all working really hard in the weight room and everyone’s seeing results so we’ve got boosted confidence.”

“Last year was a tough district,” Pitcher Carlton Brown said. “[8-4A] is a little easier.”

Last year’s district included teams such as Mansfield, Weatherford, Summit, and Paschal, who were among the tops of 4-5A.

“I think it’s a good opportunity to start over,” Bimmerle said. “We have as good of a chance as anyone. I like the chance to go out and hunt.”

Aside from Thompson and Brown, three seniors will be returning after only loosing two starters last year in Christian Kelly and Jordan Maldonato, and as many other Legacy teams have done, a tough pre-district schedule, headlined by Mansfield, Summit, Plano West, and Weatherford. The Broncos will also partake in the South Grand Praire tournament and the Frisco tournament of champions.

The Broncos open up the district schedule March 10 when they host Seguin high school, looking to capture the schools first baseball district championship.

The preparation expected from the players by coach Bimmerle was displayed while doing a swing simulation at practice January 13^th after the stretching.

Members of the coaching staff demonstrated the proper position in which to most effectively swing the bat, attempting to build strong fundamentals before the season starts.

“I want you doing this 5000 times a night in the mirror,” Bimmerle tells his players. “And if you get to 5000, do another 1000 before you go to bed.”