By Blake Chadwick
Ell-Saline’s Cruz Bradley is a senior who just wants to win.
The Cardinals, who have struggled recently, have a group of guys this year that want to turn that losing culture around.
“I try to improve losing ways by asking my coaches to push towards the spots we struggle in,” Bradley said. “After practice every day and after every home game I am out on the field working on the mound and batter’s box and trying to keep the field clean by throwing rock and other things off the field. As a team coming from a losing record the past years we have decided we want to have a .500 record at the end of the season.”
Bradley is a senior leader for the Cardinals, who is a left fielder and prides himself in his ability to track fly balls and communicate with his teammates.
“I try my best to help everyone on the team as much as I can to help improve their skill and for them to better themselves,” Bradley said.
The senior also has goals for himself.
“A personal goal of mine is to improve my at bats and just better myself as a whole,” Bradley said.
So far, that is exactly what Bradley has done at the plate. The senior has eight RBI’s and has an on base percentage of .794.
