Pueblo West is trying to break through in 4A tournament

In Pueblo, baseball is family, “We’re almost all related somehow,” says senior pitcher Ty Garcia.

The Cyclones take that saying literally, many of the guys on this years team have older brothers that played on the 2016 team that lost in the state championship game. Senior Ty Garcia is the middle man, “Those guys were my older brothers, growing up those were the juniors when I was a freshman they showed me the ropes. To be able to be the middle man in between those brother systems, that’s huge,” says Garcia. Garcia hopes to make those older brothers proud, “I love those kids that were on my team in 2016 and to get a win and show them that their younger brothers can get it done, that’s huge,” says Garcia. If P-Pub is going to win their first ever state title in baseball, they’ll need to continue being good in clutch spots, “High pressure is just more of staying confident and staying ready for anything, working to be the best,” says catcher, Zach Thomas.

They beat the one,two and three seeds in the tournament, including back to back one run wins this week. According to junior Kyle Jameson, these Cardiac Cyclones are battle-tested, “Just buying in and staying together because we never really gave up when we came to adversity and that’s helped us out this year,” says Jameson. With one final hurdle to leap, “Think about it every day, how hard we need to work to make sure we make them happy and we bring this home,” says Garcia.