Front row, from left: Cadence Lewis, Katelyn Thompson, Emily Jesmer, Hanna Whitney, MacKenzie Kondrat. Back row, from left: Makeda Thompson, Faith Fell, Paige Megliore, Caitlyn Lopez and Shelby Jewtraw. Elaina Smith is not pictured. (Enterprise photo — Lou Reuter)

Front row, from left: Cadence Lewis, Katelyn Thompson, Emily Jesmer, Hanna Whitney, MacKenzie Kondrat. Back row, from left: Makeda Thompson, Faith Fell, Paige Megliore, Caitlyn Lopez and Shelby Jewtraw. Elaina Smith is not pictured.
(Enterprise photo — Lou Reuter)

LAKE PLACID — With the customary late arrival of spring, coupled with the timing of vacation this year, the Lake Placid Blue Bombers are going to play a great deal of softball in a short amount of time once their packed schedule really gets rolling.

And with not a lot of depth, it will be an all hands on deck scenario for the Blue Bombers, who feature a mix of veterans and new players with junior varsity experience on an 11-player roster.

“For us to have success, everybody is going to have to play well, play their role,” long-time coach Donna Moody said. “After we get back from vacation, we’ll only have three practices the rest of the way. It’s going to be a lot of games in a short period of time. We’re going to learn as we go.”

Four players, including three seniors, return to varsity, and the rest of the roster all moved up from the Blue Bombers’ junior varsity.

This marks the second year Keene student-athletes are on the team, and two talented seniors from that school, Elaina Smith and Hanna Whitney, are among Lake Placid’s impact players. Whitney is back as a second-year starter at catcher, and is one of the Blue Bombers’ top threats at the plate.

Meanwhile, Smith returns as Lake Placid’s top pitcher, and will be joined at the position by Faith Fell and Shelby Jewtraw, who both worked the circle a season ago on junior varsity.

Paige Megliore rounds out Lake Placid’s trio of returning senior starters, and Emily Jesmer, is back as a junior after starting at third base in 2016.

Lake Placid is a Class C team competing in the Champlain Valley Athletic Conference. The Blue Bombers are joined by Ticonderoga and AuSable Valley as Class C squads in the CVAC, and the trio will battle it out for the Section VII title in the postseason.

“They always have strong programs,” Moody said of her Class C foes. “I think we are capable of having a .500 record for sure, but we’ll have to be ready every day. There is no team in this league you can look past.”

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Roster

Seniors

Paige Megliore

Hanna Whitney

Elaina Smith

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Juniors

Emily Jesmer

Cadence Lewis

Katelyn Thompson

Faith Fell

Shelby Jewtraw

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Sophomores

Caitlyn Lopez

Makeda Thompson

MacKenzie Kondrat