MILL CREEK — The Jackson High School baseball team’s first practice of the 2025 season didn’t involve bats, balls or gloves.

No dirt in sight — just books, desks and chairs in the classroom of Kyle Peacocke, who stepped away from coaching after the 2024 season, having won four of the past five Class 4A state softball titles at Jackson.

Joe Fleury had taken over a baseball program that was solid year after year, but — save for a spectacular undefeated season during Alan Briggs’ one year as head coach in 2006 — the Timberwolves seemed to fall a little short of their own lofty expectations.

Fleury put the seniors up front and asked a simple question: “What do you want from this season?”

“Every single one of those seniors said they wanted to feel like a family, they wanted to feel like bro

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