With thousands of people surrounding the dirt ring at the American Cowboy Team Roping Association’s National Finals in Reno, Hollister’s Wyatt Naccarato, 16, and Craig Slibsager, 18, knew they were a long way from home.
San Benito senior Craig Slibsager doesn’t have the most varsity experience on the Balers baseball team, but after two Central Coast Section playoff games, no Baler is playing better.
In the Central Coast Section Division I baseball playoffs seeds are merely just numbers. Against No. 14 seeded Sequoia, the Balers learned and survived that lesson Wednesday.
With six straight Tri-County Athletic League championships in a row, and a last-inning loss in the Central Coast Section championship game a year ago, the 2012 San Benito baseball team has a lot of history to live up to.
Despite winter weather full of rain and wind, the baseball team has spent much of the last month preparing to return to the diamond for the spring season.