This year’s Newman baseball team doesn’t have a single player on the roster who has finished the season outside the Elite Eight.
But even after back-to-back trips to the state tournament – and eight key players returning from last year’s fourth-place team in Class 2A – it still feels like the Comets are trying to prove themselves.
“You’ve just got to keep looking forward,” junior Evan Bushman said. “The last two years were great, but you know you can still do better. You’ve got to keep working hard in the offseason.”