Diamond Bar High School - Taurus Yearbook (Diamond Bar, CA)

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GETTING READY TO PLAY - Brian Hendrick, junior, runs on the field. Hendrick played in outfield or first base. TEAM WORK -- Iunior Bascom Mellon and senior Mike Kramer warm up for a game. There were seven seniors on the team. ag: : ,gfajqg ,bt . W 2 T -f A A wg if A A TKTM5- I feel being on the baseball team for the past three years has helped me to discipline myself in school. When the football season is over, I need something to hit, to take my anger out on, said senior Tom Wilson. 'T .rahmas start off ith style l With the team's new motto: tradi- tional goals, new challenges, Paul wants to keep the spirit and recognize that we're playing a new caliber, so there are new challenges. According to Wilson, Tradi- tionally we do good, we always make CIF, but we have the new challenge, the Sierra League, to beat. This was how the team was affected by the new motto. The team's motivation was really high. According to Galindo, Coach Paul is a really good motivator the way he coaches. And the other players help each other in every other aspect of the game. The team spirit is high because everybody gets along really well. The team practiced three to four hours everyday during the season. This helped the team's determina- 122 SportsfVarsity Baseball tion to win and play well. The long practices help because at every practice we try to work hard, and the games in the Sierra League are hard, said Galindo. Galindo summed it up by saying, Perfect practice makes a perfect game. The varsity baseball team won six of their first seven games. Coach Dennis Paul said he was very pleased. Paul added, It is a tough road to the playoffs, but we know our players are up to this. Paul felt teamwork was part of the team's strength because they all worked together. The only weakness, according to Paul was, There was no one superstar. The team was experiencedg all team members except for three were returning varsity players. The team also had two experienced cap- tains, seniors Craig Turley and Frank Calindo, who led by exam- ple according to Paul. The team also had six starting pit- chers, returning from last year's team. They were Tony Darden, lim Edmonds, Bryan Marino, Damien McBratney, Paul Spere, and Tom Wilson. According to Wilson, All the pitchers are more experienced,

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