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Entering the season, Cambridge Rindge and Latin boys\u2019 baseball coach Robert Merrill knew the team had the pieces necessary to have a successful season. With a lineup and pitching staff composed largely of seniors and talented players dedicated to working hard to improve, he had every reason to believe the team would perform well.<\/p>\n

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\u201cI knew we were going to be good, but if you told me that at the beginning of the year, we were going to have a season like that, I never would have thought in a million years it would happen,\u201d he said after the team won its tenth consecutive game with a 13-1 defeat of Somerville on Friday, ending the regular season 17-2.<\/p>\n

The victory capped a week in which CRLS captured the Dual County League championship for the first time since joining the league in 2015. They are ranked 14th in Eastern Massachusetts by the Boston Globe and ninth in the MIAA Division I power rankings.<\/p>\n

In the defeat of Somerville, senior pitcher Jasen Thomas pitched five innings of one-hit ball, allowing an unearned run, striking out seven, and walking one. The Falcons put the game away early, scoring eight runs in the bottom of the first and sending twelve batters to the plate. The game was called after five innings on account of the mercy rule.<\/p>\n

A dominating season<\/h2>\n

The Falcons will learn Wednesday who they will face in their first game of the MIAA baseball tournament. They will host their opponent at St. Peter\u2019s Field on either Sunday or Monday.<\/p>\n

From the first game of the season, the Falcons largely dominated their competition, and on the season, they scored 142 runs and allowed only 58. Fairly early on, though, they faced a challenge on the road against a tough Wellesley opponent in their seventh game of the season. Cambridge found itself down 4-2 after five innings, but scored one in the sixth inning and two in the seventh with two outs to take the lead. Although Wellesley won on a walk-off single in the bottom of the seventh, the team\u2019s doggedness in that game was a sign.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\u201cI was walking out to right field after the game to talk to the team,\u201d said Merrill. \u201cI look to my assistant Rich (Beyer) and I\u2019m like, \u2018We\u2019re gonna be just fine.\u2019\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n

At various times throughout the season, Cambridge battled back after finding itself down. \u201cAnytime we\u2019re down by a few runs, we\u2019re super confident in the dugout,\u201d said senior pitcher and center fielder Oliver Henke. \u201cNo one\u2019s down, and we\u2019re just ready to go. And I feel like everyone\u2019s just super confident.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Building on longstanding bonds<\/h2>\n

Many of the players on the team have been playing together since they were children in Little League. Knowing each other for so long has helped foster camaraderie among teammates.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\u201cThere\u2019s a positive supportive environment and a lot of chemistry on the team,\u201d said senior first baseman Stefan Alexandrov. \u201cI think that\u2019s because we\u2019ve been playing with each other our entire lives. You can see pictures of me with Oliver (Henke), Tate (Schoenau), and a bunch of other people when we were like ten years old.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n

The team\u2019s chemistry has generated an environment of selflessness among the players.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\u201cWe have seniors who haven\u2019t had a lot of innings but they\u2019re the first guys in the dugout rooting for the guys that are playing their positions, and kind of preventing them from getting innings,\u201d said Merrill. \u201cAnd they\u2019re the guys who are leaders in the dugout, and are lifting up other guys and making sure guys are staying focused. So we really had some dugout generals, I call them, that really set the tone for the team in the dugout.\u201d<\/p>\n

After such a dominating season and riding a ten-game winning streak, the team is quite confident they can go far in the state tournament.<\/p>\n

\u201cThere\u2019s really good vibes between everyone right now, and I feel like there\u2019s not a team we can\u2019t beat in the state,\u201d said Thomas.<\/p>\n

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