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Thunder have veteran core entering 2022
BY JOSH YODER Sports reporter jyoder@lewistownsentinel.com
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BELLEVILLE — Belleville Mennonite will be looking to build on from its (5-11) record from a season ago. Chase Peachey returns to the program for his third season as the head coach of the Thunder along with assistant coach Mile Ammon.
“I’m excited, we got a good group coming back,” Peachey said. “We got four returning starters.”
With it being his third season with the boys basketball program, coach Peachey’s main goal for the team this season and to put everything that they had work on and start connecting the dots and become a challenger in the Allegheny Christian Athletic Association.
“Just want to build off from what we’ve been doing the last couple years,” Peachey said. “We’ve been developing skills, skill sets, skill development. Now it’s time to start putting it together as a team and start winning some games.”
The Thunder will have plenty of experience coming back this coming season. With such players as Mitchell Kauffman, Quinn Renno and Evan Crosson who have been playing together for a number of years. Coach Peachey has high expectations for these players to help lead the team to success.
“We finally have a veteran team now,” Peachey said. “We got one senior Mitchell Kauffman, two juniors, Quinn Renno and Evan Crosson. Basically had a JV team the last two years. So it be nice to have some maturity and some leadership now.”
That core is especially going to be needed for the upcoming season as the Thunder will only be having seven players on the roster. Joining them will be Clay Ammon, Bryson Peachey, Paul Yoder and Miguel Interiano.
“We have a very good returning core,” Peachey said. “We’re not going to be a deep team. Not a lot of depth on the bench.”
So throughout the season, Belleville Mennonite will be doing whatever it can to avoid the injury bug. Because with such a small roster, one moment could really hurt the Thunder season. It was much of the same last year for Belleville Mennonite. Coach Peachey
