Members of the Lake Oswego baseball team celebrate a play in a game against West Linn on Tuesday, May 30, 2023 at West Linn High School. Naji Saker for The Oregonian/OregonLive
Disrespect was the word Lake Oswego baseball coach Jake Anders chose when looking back 12 months to describe a time when his Lakers were picked outside Class 6A’s top 10 in last year’s preseason coaches poll.
Sure, they’d graduated a few starters. And perhaps it wasn’t his deepest group in terms of collegiate talent, but this was a program, after all, which had reached seven state quarterfinals since 2006.
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