Liberty's season came to an end last week in the District 11 4A baseball quarterfinals, but it didn't stop head coach Andy Pitsilos looking ahead to the future.

Northampton got the better of the Hurricanes during a 3-1 win to end Liberty's season at 15-8 overall.

Kids' pitcher Nick DeMieri threw a complete game, four-hitter to help his team move to last Saturday's district semifinals, where Parkland defeated Northampton 4-2 to advance to Tuesday's district championship.

Easton upset Stroudsburg 3-1 over the weekend in the other semifinal to set up the Rovers and Trojans for the right to the district championship.

The path for Liberty, however, stalled with the Hurricanes inability to get quality hits off of DeMieri.

"We just hit a lot of balls in the air," Pitsilos said. "What are you going to do when everything you hit is right at them? It just didn't work out for us."

The Hurricanes graduate four seniors overall and return the bulk of their lineup, including all six pitchers from this season. Starting up to four sophomores throughout the year, Pitsilos knows the experience gathered from this year's team should pay dividends moving forward.

"Experience is always key when you get to this point of the year," he said. "I think our guys learned from this and it'll make them a better team next year. They certainly like winning more than losing, so this should be something that they remember.

"I think when you see what we have coming back, you tend to be hopeful about the expectations you have. You want to win it all every year, but you always know that's no realistic. I think our guys will take this experience and come back next year even better."