Can this team turn Catholic Memorial into a baseball school?

Brotherhood, a core element at Catholic Memorial, comes effortlessly for the baseball team. Experience often rolls in waves for high school athletics programs, but the Knights have a surplus this spring. The varsity roster lists only juniors and seniors — a perfect 10-10 split — and every player has some form of responsibility, according to 21-year coach Hal Carey (’95), a former team captain at his alma mater and a four-year standout at Harvard. “It might not be the exact role that they want, but I believe they can all help us win games, and that’s why they’re on the team,” Carey said. Whether it’s not-so-friendly ping-pong tournaments at senior captain Carson McCarthy’s house in West Roxbury, or feasting at Chipotle and Chick-fil-A, the bond is one that fellow captain Rocky Vankoski has not quite experienced since he joined varsity as a sophomore. “It just really makes you excited to go out there every day,” Vankoski said. “You see these ideals from the school, from CM, like the brotherhood really incorporated into the baseball team this year. It’s just so natural.” That nexus of shared experiences is propelling Catholic Memorial (4-1), ranked sixth in this weeks’s Globe Top 20, to early-season success.

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