NATCHEZ — When the Trinity Episcopal baseball team captured its first state title in school history on May 12, seven Trinity athletes also etched their names into Trinity sports lore by capturing their second state title of the school year.

Seniors Hunter Knapp, Kent King, Jeremy Cable, Trevor Faust, Zach Rachal, Chase Patrick and Givonni Dent all were members of Trinity’s state championship football and baseball teams.

“We’ve been together since we were little, and to win it (all) in every sport is something we always wanted to do,” King said. “It was very special, not many people (get the) opportunity to win it in two sports, and it’s a great honor.”

These seven seniors lost a combined three games in both sports this school year. The Saints’ football team finished 15-0 and the baseball team finished with a 24-3 mark.

“They have a tremendous junior class below them, and (these seniors) just had a will to win and compete,” Trinity football coach and assistant baseball coach David King said. “To go 15-0 is astronomical in football and to top it off with 24-3 in baseball, just think about that. We didn’t play slouches either. To win that many baseball games tells you that they brought it every day.”

“There were only two games their whole senior year that I could sit back and say I was disappointed in, and that was two of the baseball losses. The rest of the time they competed. ‘The will to win,’ was their motto,” David said.

Faust suffered an early season ankle injury during football season that forced him to miss much of the undefeated campaign, but the camaraderie he had with his teammates helped him to enjoy the title run, he said.

“(A state title) is what (the football team) has been working up for and what we’ve always been training for. That’s what this school is about is football, and that’s what they’ve been working up to and they finally did it,” Faust said.

Faust said the baseball title is even more special because he was able to contribute more to the team’s efforts.

“This school has never won a baseball state (title) before, so it was special us winning it our senior year, because we’ve been together for so long and it’s something we’ve always wanted to do,” he said.

David said the familiarity that came with playing together for so long helped the Trinity seniors reach the top of two sports.

“You got to have cohesiveness obviously at that level,” David said. “It’s a unique bone those kids will share for many years to come, and they are a very close-knit group. Those seniors are like family.”

Faust will be off to Pearl River Community College next fall to continue his baseball career, but he said he would miss high school ball now that it is over.

“I will miss being out there with my friends and miss that last at bat of high school,” Faust said. “We knew how to back each other up in the field. We had a real special bond. I’m going to miss all of them. It’s going to be hard moving on and playing with different people in college.”

Dent and Kent King came within one basket of achieving a clean sweep in state titles this season.

Both were on Trinity’s basketball team, which fell one point shy of winning the state title itself.

“(Winning state in basketball) was Kent’s goal since eighth grade,” David said, “and they were one point away from that, and that was special.”

David said this group of seniors has definitely left their mark on Trinity athletics.

“This group here will be remembered at Trinity for a long time for their contributions to greatness,” David said.