En route to a top 20 ranking in Class A along with a 13-4 overall, Frontier’s varsity baseball team has shown no signs of letting up after their historical sectional-winning season a year ago. Frontier head coach Ron Benakovich touched on their recent success while admitting that his team isn’t satisfied with the victories sustained both in the past and present.

“I think we’re getting better and we beat who we’re supposed to beat,” Benakovich said. “But we’ve just got to keep getting better. It always comes back to being never satisfied. These guys probably get tired of hearing it but you’ve got to continue to play like you’re never satisfied.”

After recent decisions against Delphi, a 4-3 loss, and wins over Clinton Central and Knox, Frontier continues to find ways to sharpen what looks to be another roster that can go deep into the postseason.

For senior Jason Newton and Co., their success has been piggybacked off following the lead of their head coach.

“It’s a lot of carryover from last year. RB is here with us again from last year and he’s been preaching the little things. One of the biggest is it’s a game of inches and we have to play like we’re never satisfied. You’ll see it in the gameplay, and I think we’ve all just picked up on it this year. We focus on the fundamentals of baseball and throwing a lot, and we just stay focused on what he’s teaching us,” he said.

While Benakovich notes that their stable of arms in the pitching rotation has grown to be one of their biggest areas of improvement thus far.

“Our pitching is better and we’ve addressed that hard through the offseason and preseason. Repetition is the mother of education so we’re working on the same things over and over,” he said.

Going into last weekend’s string of play, senior Reid Duncan had given up just five earned runs in over 25 innings pitched while Joseph Schroeder and Brody Layton have provided reliable outings throughout the season.

Issac Mansfield, another of Frontier’s reliable arms, touched on how their offseason work has paid off thus far.

“We worked on pitching a lot over the offseason and focused on fielding every single day. We just continued to stay focused on those things, put it together, and then when games come along we’re able to take anything that’s brought our way,” Mansfield said.

Their ability on the mound hasn’t been the only area of strength during their 2025 campaign either as they hit over .360 as a team while registering 124 in 17.

Throughout the year, Duncan has led the team with a hitting percentage of .517 followed by .486 from Beau Dazey along with .417 from Blake Sorensen.

Outside of their top three hitters, they register five other batters who hit .323 or better.

But despite all of their successes, the ones that they sustained last season have proved to be the most pivotal as Newton regards their victories in 2024 as the springboard for the belief of now.

“I think it taught us that we’re able to compete with other schools. … These schools that were bigger and we thought were a lot better than us last year, we’ve just continued to build off that belief from what we achieved last year,” he said.

Frontier hosts Rensselaer Central on May 17.