Wednesday, January 30, 2013

Paine baseball team expects to contend for conference title

AUGUSTA, Georgia  --  After losing the conference championship to a perennial power a year ago, Paine’s baseball team has unfinished business.

With coach Kerby Marshall entering his second year with the program, the team returns most of its bats from a solid offense a year ago, and additional pitching depth, Paine is coming together.

The Lions won 30 games and reached the Southern Intercollegiate Athletic Conference championship in 2012 before bowing out to Stillman, which won the championship for the fifth time in six years.

“It was a major process to go through without having a team of kids that I recruited,” Marshall said. “We had to learn how to work together to become a good team. I think it was a pretty good season, but it could have been a lot better. This year, we’re definitely going to make another run for it.”

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