Vikings go undefeated during first baseball games

The Petersburg Vikings baseball team kicked off its season with two wins against the Junior Varsity Sitka Wolves last week.

Head Coach Jim Engle said the Vikings are a small but balanced team this year with several veteran players and other new but strong athletes added to the ten-player squad.

“We have some deep pitching ability,” Engle said. We have a couple guys that can chew up a lot of innings that can give us 100 plus pitches in complete games if we need to.”

The number one starter is junior Colby Bell. Engel said Bell has a solid fastball with a lot of velocity and can mix a nasty curve...