Vikings armed with moundful of pitchers

Baseball is back! Even though the season was shut down in 2020 due to state COVID restrictions, several of the players participated in a summer league that kept them in shape for this season.
"It was tough for them to sit out, especially since the date just kept getting moved back every couple of weeks," Larson said. "We thought we would have a little bit of a season. However, we were able to play some last summer. The kids are excited to play, and hope that the weather will cooperate for this year."
The Vikings have a veteran group with nine seniors, three juniors and three sophomores; many of them who can pitch, which is always important in a short season in which games are bunched together. It all starts with pithing.
"We have quite a few guys that can pitch," Larson said, "but not a lot with a great amount of varsity innings because of last year. They will have to work into it."
It also helps to have a pair of experienced catchers which the Vikings have in seniors Carter Schuelke and AJ Myhre.
Because of having a year off and losing some players last year to graduation makes it difficult to gauge what type of a team a coach will have until playing several games.
"Offensively, we have quite a few guys that have experience in certain spots in the line up that played last summer; a few in 2019," Larson noted. "As far as infield, we have a few guys that will be able to play multiple positions depending on who is pitching. And our outfield will be pretty quick, but they haven't played together much, so it will take a few games to work into that."