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DENVER — For the past few years, the Evergreen Cougars have been privileged to play at Coors Field against Castle View High School.

Unfortunately for the Cougars this year, this positive experience had a little bit of negative sprinkled in, as they dropped their second straight game of the young season 5-2 on March 17.

Once again the Cougar bats remained silent as they came away with only five hits and got only one hit with runners in scoring position.

The Evergreen Cougars’ fortunes shifted like a career politician March 12.

Facing an experienced and salty Boulder Panthers squad, the Cougars started out like cones that the visitors danced around before scoring. In the second quarter, the Cougars came out like wild dogs, hitting and grinding and scoring fluid goals seemingly at will.

But the back-and-forth eventually ended with the visitors getting more votes as the Cougars suffered a 7-6 defeat on their home field.

Spring is here, even if March, as usual, is producing snowstorms. However, the snow has delayed the arrival of the first bluebird.

Or perhaps they have arrived and my network of reporters hasn’t informed me about it. If no one has seen a bluebird yet, it is most unusual. They often arrive in late February and usually are here in good numbers by the first week of March. These early birds are followed by the laggards, and by the end of March the main migration is finished and our nesting birds are here.

Spring is almost here and that means it’s time for America’s pastime to re-enter the fold.

The Evergreen Cougars’ baseball team has been in hibernation and is ready to be a force in the Jeffco 4A league this upcoming season and improve upon last year’s 16-5 record and third-place league finish.

Even though the Cougars lost some strong contributors, including two starting pitchers from last year’s team, head coach Terry Hensley hopes changes in philosophy and in the offseason conditioning program can duplicate last year’s success.