By Kevin Price For GCS Athletics The Brunswick High and Glynn Academy baseball teams are set for new seasons which start this week. The Pirates will actually take the field first as they are scheduled to face Brantley County Monday at home. The Red Terrors will take the diamond for their season opener Tuesday at Ware County. Both Glynn and Brunswick are coming off playoff appearances last spring. The Terrors reached the second round before they were eliminated from the Class AAAAAA state tournament by Woodward Academy. Glynn was the No. 2 seed out of Region 2-AAAAAA after contending for the region title until the end of the league schedule. Brunswick lost in the opening round to perennial power Houston County which went on to win the state championship. The Pirates fielded a young squad last year, but this season head coach Greg Roberts, entering his fourth year with the Brunswick program, will work with an a older club that gained a year’s worth of varsity experience last spring. A strong nucleus of players return including sophomore Grant Moore who was named the Region 2-AAAAAA Rookie of the Year last season after serving as one of Brunswick’s top pitchers and hitters. Also back for the Pirates are several other starters who received all-region accolades last spring. Those include junior shortstop and pitcher Jordan Lodise, senior third baseman Roland Chance, senior outfielder Ryan Thomas and sophomore second baseman Brett Hickson. The Pirates also hope to have the services of senior pitcher Elijah Wellman who hardly took the mound last season because of a lingering injury. Wellman signed a scholarship with Samford University in the fall and could make a huge impact on the mound for the Pirates if he can log innings for the team this season. On the south end of town, the Terrors return several players who were on the all-region team a year ago. Leading that group are senior outfielder Greyson Gegg, a Mercer signee and first-team all-region pick last year, senior shortstop Gus Gandy, another first-team selection who has already signed with Samford, and senior pitcher Luke Barch who will once again be the No. 1 pitcher for Glynn going into the season. Barch was the region’s Pitcher of the Year as a junior as he posted a 1.88 earned-run average while striking out 92 batters in nearly 75 innings of work. Also back as starters for the Terrors are fellow first-team all-region players Wessley Roberson, a sophomore outfielder and leadoff hitter, and senior third baseman-pitcher Tank Tankersley. Glynn head coach John Welborn, set for his third season at the helm, also has back two honorable-mention all-region players from last year in senior first baseman-pitcher Ryan Schueneman and senior relief pitcher Eli Newbern. The Terrors will play their home opener on Thursday against Calvary Day. First pitch is set for 6 p.m. at Adam Wainwright Field. Glynn will complete its opening week with a 4 p.m. game Saturday at the Waino against Brookwood in the annual Baseball at the Beach tournament which takes place this weekend and next at both Glynn and Brunswick with games also scheduled for Edo Miller Park. The Pirates will also be in action later this week at Bud Couch Field on the BHS campus against Brookwood on Friday before facing Dacula on Saturday in the tournament. Both of those games are scheduled for 7 p.m. The annual City Championship series between the Terrors and Pirates will be played the week of April 8 on the back end of the region schedule for both teams. The three-game league set will be the final region series for the Pirates. Glynn will have one more series the next week against Evans, the defending region champion.