Congrats to meads and PitchingFan! Sounds like your boys are off to great starts to the spring.
Chico Jr's HS team is playing to expectations--weren't supposed to contend for a title, but should be pretty good. They have won the games they were expected to; lost some close ones to teams that were supposed to beat them; only been blown out once.
My son's team has a strong pitching staff, which is all seniors plus him (a junior). He (and the coaches) expected he would be a starter and he was on track for that very early on, but has not looked good in his last couple of appearances and, for now at least, is a middle reliever. Unfortunately, he has never pitched well in relief going all the way back to Little League (but he hasn't earned another start). Jr isn't giving up many hits except a few seeing-eye grounders, but when you load the bases with walks and HBP, a single means a couple of runs... He seems ticked off rather than discouraged, which I suppose it good. His dad is a little concerned, but is a worrier by nature.