Coach Donnie Moore and the Kennedy Catholic baseball team were more than glad to return to action when the sun came out Friday.
"It's been two weeks since our last game," Moore said. "It's nice to smell the grass and feel some heat come off your face."
Of course enjoying the return to the Lancers' home field behind their campus was helped along by the results -- a 10-3 thrashing of Renton.
The Lancers jumped out to a 5-0 lead with the help of two home runs and never looked back.
Kennedy scored its first two runs in the bottom of the second inning. Joe Greaney led off with a single and Jon Culver followed with an infield hit. Greaney scored as the pair of runners pulled off a double steal.
Jensen Merrell walked ahead of another double steal that put runners on second and third. Culver tagged and scored on a fly ball by Anthony McCluskey to make it 2-0.
Two more runs were tacked on in the fourth, when Merrell homered to right and McCluskey walked, went to second on a wild pitch and scored on a base hit by Dominic Peretti.
Korean exchange student Dae Lee then came through in the fifth inning, crunching a solo home run onto the parking lot on the hill beyond the fence in right center.
Renton chipped away with one run in the sixth and two in the seventh, but Kennedy kept the Indians at bay with five runs in the bottom of the sixth.
Culver led off the inning with a walk and came around on an error and two more walks. Max Larson single in two more runs and Greaney hit into an error for the final two runs.
Moore was pleased with the Lancers' balanced attack with the bats.
"Everyone contributed to a team win today," Moore said.
Kennedy, which was the only Highline-area team not on spring break last week, is on spring break this week. So even though the Lancers are four games behind on the Seamount League schedule, they intend to take their off days.
Kennedy enters the break with a 4-1 Seamount League record and stood at 4-2 overall.
"We're behind four games, and it's spring break now so it will be an off week," Moore said. "We play Highline the 18th, and we'll probably play four or five games that week."
