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The baseball season is underway! The Newark Norsemen Baseball team has a new coach. This year, Gabriel Veliz, Jr. coaches the Norsemen. The new coach and the Norsemen are expecting a promising season.

Two seniors, Brandon Mattison and Ryan Mulligan are leading the way this year. Brandon Mattison said, “It’s going to be a fun season, no doubt. We won’t do too bad this year.” We also talked to senior Ryan Mulligan. He says, “It will be interesting this season; we have a young team. We’ll probably win around 12 games this season, I think. I like the new coach; he’s cool. He has experience, and he knows what he’s doing. The season has been rough so far; we need to work a little more. The season has been interesting but hard.”

Coach Veliz Jr. played two years at Waubonsee Community College (1999 – 2001) and two years of baseball at Aurora University (2002 – 2004). He was the starting shortstop and 2nd baseman. He also played semi – professional baseball for Oswego Cats until 2007. He has also coached a travel baseball team for the last seven years.

Good luck Newark Norsemen!

By Chris Murawski & Cori Elizalde