{"id":14898,"date":"2013-04-10T13:43:15","date_gmt":"2013-04-10T19:43:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/searcylionpress.com\/?p=14898"},"modified":"2013-07-26T13:09:46","modified_gmt":"2013-07-26T19:09:46","slug":"softball-players-work-hard","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/searcylionpress.com\/?p=14898","title":{"rendered":"Softball team welcomes new coach"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Over the past four years of winning seasons, the softball team has high expectations for their new coach.<\/p>\n

“So far, I love Coach Long, he’s just a great guy; he’s young but it’s all a learning experience for everybody, but I think just coming into the program he has done really well,” said senior Diane Perish.<\/p>\n

“I think he is different, but it’s a good different; it’s good to have a change,” said senior Micah Webb.<\/p>\n

Coach Long, coming from Dezark high school, is excited about the change in schools.<\/p>\n

“Takes some getting used to: The girls getting used to me, me getting used to the girls; the girls are the same, they don’t change from school to school. I see a lot more talent here, a lot more potential, a lot more to build on,” said Coach Long.<\/p>\n

With the new coach, this team has positive expectations on how this season is going to go.<\/p>\n

“I think were going to do great, because we have all of our returning varsity members and we have some good additions in the freshman class,” said Webb.<\/p>\n

The first game of the season was pretty good, according to Perish.<\/p>\n

“We started our first game 11-1 and we run ruled them in the 6th or 5th inning, so I mean thats pretty good to start off the season, but we got Beebe on Monday, never know how its going to go,” she said.<\/p>\n

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Long is looking forward conference championship and eventually bigger goals.<\/p>\n

“Hope it goes great, but we are taking it one game at a time right now and focusing on the next game ahead,” said Long.<\/p>\n

Coach Long will go on to do many great things for this team.<\/p>\n

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