Media coverage of our Colt Team!

The Lafayette team appears to be much better than last years team. This is an interview with both coaches and of Nick (#16) coming in against Mexico last year in the 3rd inning and had a strong 3 1/3 innings of relief, getting a big win to advance us to the final four.

Upset by Hoosier North!

Nick came in and closed the last 2 innings. 2 errors cost us early but we stayed close at 3-1 end of 5 innings. Nick struck out the side in the 6th, leaving 2 stranded from an excellent bunt & a hit batter. We score a run in the bottom of the 6th to make it 3-2. Another bunt single in the 7th but Nick stymies any chance of HN scoring with a strike out and 2 measly ground outs. We could not score in the 7th.

Disaster in Chicago!

Still yet to get all the news about our four games in Chicago, but thus far thru the text I read yesterday it was a brutal weekend for our Lafayette All-Stars. I think we had 1 win 2 losses, 1 tie. Hopefully we can bounce back for Tuesdays games.

My son Nick with the state trophy!!

Area baseball stars!!!

Recent Frontier graduate Dylan Sterrett wasn't sure who his potential opponents were for today's Fifth Annual Mr. Baseball Classic in Noblesville.

Yet the Chicago State-bound pitcher/infielder looked forward to challenging whoever stands in against him.

"It won't be like pitching a Class 1A game, where you have 15 strikeouts," Sterrett said. "Everybody's going to be able to hit it. I probably have to throw my best game. It should be a great experience."

Sterrett is one of five area players who will compete in today's 2 p.m. game, organized by Hoosier Diamond and sponsored by Community Health Network. Admission at Don Dunker Field is $4.

Sterrett and North Montgomery pitcher/first baseman Cody Nickle will play for the Red Team. Crawfordsville's Steven Rice and A.J. Ehrlich and Central Catholic's Scott Windler are on the Blue Team.

CC's Taylor Glaze and Clinton Central's Dylan Padgett were also nominated and will appear on the ballot for Mr. Baseball, to be announced in early July.

"It will be a great experience," said Windler, who recently led Central Catholic to a repeat Class A state championship. "It's kind of special for me that I got nominated. It will give me a great opportunity to see what the next level is like."

Windler, Sterrett (Franklin), Ehrlich (Hanover) and Rice (Vanderbilt) are all preparing to join college programs. Today's game allows them a peek at a higher caliber of talent.

Sterrett and Windler will also be among the Class A players stepping up to take on players from some of the state's largest schools.

"I've never played against 4A schools," said Sterrett, who lost only two pitching decisions in his four-year varsity career. "I don't know if the challenge is any different; we're all high school kids."

WHMB-TV 40 will broadcast the game on tape delay on Friday. Hamilton County Television will broadcast the game on July 3rd (noon), 4th (2 p.m.) and 6th (9 p.m.).

Local all-stars

Ryan Black singled and doubled to lead the Class 4A West to an 8-3 victory over the East in Saturday's Postyourt.org All-Star games at Milligan Park in Crawfordsville.

Black singled to lead off the bottom of the first and opened the door for a six-run inning. He also doubled and scored in the fourth. North Montgomery's Cody Nickle hit a two-run home run for the East.

Several area players contributed to a 14-2 West victory in the Class A baseball game. Frontier grad Frank Fisk's two-out RBI single in the first started the scoring, and he and Central Catholic's Scott Windler and Taylor Glaze all singled during a three-run third inning.

CC's Reed Drysdale and Cole Hruiskovich each scored twice, and teammate Chas Bobillo had a pair of RBIs. Tri-County's Ryan Beckley also scored for the West.

In the Class 3A West's 3-2 victory, North Montgomery's Matt Cunningham had an RBI single, and Chargers teammate Joey Clifton scored a run.

The first game of the softball doubleheader ended in a 1-1 tie, with Crawfordsville's Ariel Hinton scoring the West's lone run. In Game 2, Athenian Chelsea Day scored a run, and Hinton drove in another in a 9-6 West victory.

Taylor Glaze!

Thanks Taylor for great memories and guiding my son Nick along, good luck in the future!!

In the days before the Class A state championship game, Tecumseh coach Dave Duncan asked a reporter an innocent, yet obvious, question.

"Do you think they'll throw the left-hander?" Duncan said, referring to upcoming opponent Central Catholic's choice of pitchers.

There was little chance the Knights weren't going to give the left-hander, Taylor Glaze, the ball at Victory Field in Indianapolis. Especially if Glaze had anything to say about it.

"I love those challenges," Glaze said. "I love big games. I love testing myself to the max -- just going in knowing you have what it takes to get it done, and you just have to go out there and do it."

More often than not, Glaze came through. For the second year in a row, he pitched Central Catholic to a Class A state championship.

While pitching the biggest games, Glaze solidified his status as Journal & Courier Small School Player of the Year.

"He's just a great player and a great pitcher," CC center fielder Scott Windler said. "We know when we put him on the mound, he'll do great things."

Glaze drew the starting assignment against the largest schools on Central Catholic's schedule. He also pitched the sectional final, the regional semifinal against Cowan and the semistate and state championship games.

That competition brought out the best in Glaze, who finished 10-2 with a 1.02 ERA and 83 strikeouts and 25 walks in 75 1/3 innings.

Glaze's offensive contributions were often overshadowed by his pitching exploits. Moved to No. 4 after starting the season as the No. 2 hitter, Glaze batted .395 with two home runs, 30 RBIs and a team-high 36 walks that accounted for 27 percent of the team's total.

"If the situation called for a bunt, or for a hit-and-run with the cleanup hitter, which we normally wouldn't do, we were able to do that with him," coach Tim Bordenet said. "It gave us some versatility and a lot of different options."

Glaze has not yet committed to a college program, but Bordenet said he expects that to be resolved within the next week.