Cubs Baseball Looking Good to Compete for Little 4 Title This Year

We’ve joined forces with Ray Hamill of HumboldtSports.com to bring you local sports. Below we share a teaser and a link to his stories for easy access. Here’s the intro to Hamill’s look at the Cubs to give you a taste of what to expect:

Judging by what they’ve shown so far this season, the South Fork Cubs appear to have the pitching and defense to compete for a Little 4 title in 2019.

This year’s team features a combination of athletic talent and baseball experience, having won the North Coast Section Division-VI crown a year ago.

Whether they can challenge St. Bernard’s and Ferndale for the conference championship, however, could very well come down to how effective they can be at the plate.

“We have a strong defense,” head coach Corky Coffelt said. “Like I told the players at the start of the year, this team is built on defense.”

The 7-2 Cubs have given up more than three runs just once in nine games, and allowed just four combined runs in their two losses, both shutouts.

In their past five games, including a matchup against Fortuna and two against St. Bernard’s, the Cubs have given up five runs total.

Senior CJ Van Meter has been leading the way as expected and is one of the top pitchers in a Little 4 loaded with them, but the emergence of junior Kaydon Pogue and senior Cooper Scott has given Coffelt added options on the mound.

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