With the regular season over, the Cannon Falls Bombers Varsity baseball team has high hopes for playoffs after securing the 1 seed.

With a regular season record of 16-4, the Cannon Falls Bomber Varsity team is heading to the playoffs. The Bombers had a 16-game winning streak after starting 0-3, but ended the season with a 7-4 loss to the St. Charles Saints. Being the number one seed, the team has high hopes for a state playoff run.

When asked about what the team has improved the most on, Coach Bucky Lindow said, “We have improved the most on baserunning, and more specifically, base stealing.” The Bombers have also greatly improved on offense. In the first three games, the team put up only nine runs, while in the last three games, they scored fifteen. This boost in offense can also be seen in the six games in which the Bombers have scored ten or more runs.

Coach Lindow singled out Jack Meyers as one of the best players on the team and said that he has been a “driving force” this year. He added that Meyers has been a great player on both sides of the ball. Meyers currently has the highest strike percentage, on the pitcher’s mound, sitting at an impressive 70% and the second highest quality at bat (QAB) percentage at 55%, behind Preston Schoenfelder, who has a QAB percentage of 64%. 

When asked about the playoffs, Caiden Huebsch, the senior first baseman for the Bombers, said, “I think that the playoffs are going to go great, we are only getting better, we are only getting hotter.” Coach Lindow added that this team had set lofty goals for the postseason, and that the coaching staff has said the whole season that the main goal is to be playing the best baseball that the team can be playing.

Both Huebsch and Lindow expressed that the season has gone great for the team up to this point. The team has high hopes for making a state playoff run and starting a new win streak to make it to state. The Bombers will play Zumbrota Mazeppa on Saturday, May 24, at John Burch Park for their first playoff game.