but it looks pretty nice,” Sitka coach Ken Carley said. “I’m just excited to not be standing in the mud and

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“But the season is long and you have got to have a balance between practice time and recover days,” Adams said. “We are already seeing the kids spend a lot more time away from the field together so we are happy with the results so far. It’s now a six-week, nonstop push with games each weekend. It’s going to be a grind, but it always is and I think this group of young men are up to the challenge ahead.”

So far, JDHS has only played preseason non-conference games at the Sitka Invitational, defeating Soldotna 4-2, 7-3 and 9-1 and falling to Sitka 6-2, 10-1 and 7-6. This home stand and the rest of the season will be Southeast Conference standing play.

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Sitka has defeated Ketchikan (10-0, 3-2, 17-0) and holds a 3-0 SEC record. Kayhi is 0-3.

“JD looks pretty decent this year,” Carley said. “We’re going to have to play our best games. We’re not taking anyone lightly this year. The only difference this year, with there only being one Juneau team, we actually have home games against everyone and also have away games against everyone. So we play everyone two series of three games for varsity…We are just lucky enough that we have seven seniors this year.”

Friday game times are 7 p.m. for varsity (1:30 and 4 p.m. JV) and 2 p.m. and 5 p.m. Saturday for varsity (noon JV). The team will also be on the field for the Gastineau Channel Little League Opening Day ceremonies at 10 a.m. Saturday.

The SEC best regular season record earns the SEC second spot into the state tournament. The Region V Tournament winner earns the number-one seed SEC spot into the state tournament. Ideally a team wants to have the best conference record and Region V championship as the Region V tournament runner-up would be a two-seed at state and open in a harder first-round state bracket.