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The student news site of Hopkins High School

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Luke Polyak, sophomore, pitches in a Wayzata game located at the US Bank Stadium. The Royals lost 4-0.

HHS baseball seizes training opportunities

Evie Barczak, Sports Reporter
HHS baseball plays 19 games in their regular season, which consists of almost six weeks. Needless to say, their season is short and busy, so what do they do the rest of the year? As a high school varsity team, it’s important for players to be involved in some type of program in the off-season.

Player Profile: Tommy Auth

Evie Barczak, Sports Reporter
Tommy Auth, junior, has been playing baseball since he was four years old. He initially started because of his interest in the sport and his dad’s baseball background.
Matt Shaw, senior, prepares for a pitch at the plate.

Baseball preview: Season opener

AJ Condon, Sports Reporter
The HHS baseball team will play in their first game of the season tomorrow Sat. April 8, against White Bear Lake. The Royals are looking to improve their record from last season after going 7-12 and having a record of 1-7 in conference play.
Matt Shaw, senior, winds up to deliver a pitch

Player Profile: Matt Shaw

Evie Barczak, Sports Reporter
Shaw started playing baseball at age five, and has loved it ever since. As he entered high school he started playing for Hopkins Legion, in addition to the high school team.
Morgan Holmes, senior, steps up to the plate preparing to take an at-bat.

Season preview: Baseball

AJ Condon, Sports Reporter
With the temperatures altering a lot lately, it has given signs of spring to be on its way, with that, the baseball season.
Derrick Johnson, Morningside College, Iowa, Baseball- 
First year on Varsity: Senior year, 2016.
Favorite memory: Winning State in 9th grade with his travel team.

On to the next level: Class of 2016

Over 30 HHS senior student athletes will be continuing their athletic careers next year at college.

Baseball preview: facing the Cardinals

Alex Kim, Staff Reporter
The Royals face the Cardinals at home today at 4:30 on the varsity baseball field.
Ben Whalen, junior, waits for a pitch last season

Savitz leads Royals past Millers

Kyle Miller, Staff Reporter
The Royals came into Tuesday’s matchup with the Minneapolis Washburn Millers coming off of a 1-9 loss to Lake Conference rival Edina (4-0).

Baseball preview: facing the Hornets

Kyle Miller, Staff Reporter
Tonight, Friday, April 15, the Royals will host the Hornets from Edina in a Lake Conference showdown. The Royals will look to keep up their good start to the season with another win.
Eric Davis, University of St. Thomas, Basketball- 
First year on Varsity: Junior year, 2015.
Favorite memory: Helping his team to the State championship and going 31-1 in his senior season, 2016.

Royals baseball season preview

Kyle Miller, Staff Reporter
The Hopkins Royals baseball team has high expectations coming into the 2016 season. The Royals were .500 last year in the regular season with a 10-10 record.
Coby Hair, senior, in between pitches.

Baseball has lots to cheer about beyond record

With a .500 regular season record in 2015, the Royals had their best regular season since 2012, in which they went 14-6 and took the section championship, but lost both state games.Though this season's game record may not be quite on that level, what the record doesn’t show is a couple of walk offs, and even a no hitter.
After losing to Robbinsdale Armstrong 5-1 in the section quarterfinals, the Royals faced elimination as they hosted the Robbinsdale Cooper Hawks.

Baseball season ends in section defeat

After losing to Robbinsdale Armstrong 5-1 in the section quarterfinals, the Royals faced elimination as they hosted the Robbinsdale Cooper Hawks.
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