Sequoia
Coach: Mike Doyle
2024 record: 15-14
In the rugged PAL Bay Division, there are no easy outs. Mike Doyle’s Sequoia Ravens might epitomize that line of thinking.
The Ravens might be considered a middle-of-the-pack team but do enough things well that they are the team no one – especially those with a league title on the line – wants to play.
Sequoia graduated nine seniors from a 2024 team that went 15-14, but returns five starters, including first baseman and pitcher Morgan Winfield, who is coming off a solid summer of tournament baseball.
Winfield hit .333 last year and has developed a power stroke that makes him one of the PAL Bay’s most lethal hitters.
Catcher Logan Mathias hit .292 last year, but may have made a bigger impact on defense, where he threw out 13 would-be base stealers. Shortstop Vincent Olinger Giani struggled at the plate but had a .929 fielding percentage.
“I feel like our program can really do well this year,” said Mathias, who steps behind the plate for his third season as a starter (it would have been a fourth were it not for Tommy John surgery as a sophomore. “We’ve put in the work this offseason.”
Derek Hymer leads the pitching staff. He spun a 2.6 earned-run average with a 1.10 WHIP a year ago. Also expected to get some innings are Winfield and outfielders Dylan Karmin and Cameron Abrams.
Garrett Johnson, Mario Fausto, Mays Pagnotta and Nolan Fausto are expected to make contributions after playing at the junior varsity level last year.
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