National Coach of the Year!!!

Congratulations to Central Catholic Baseball Coach Tim Bordenet who has been chosen by the National High School Baseball Coaches Association as the District 4 Coach of the Year. Bordenet is now in the running for national coach of the year honors, which will be announced Dec. 3 in Nashville, Tennessee.

“It is an honor to be recognized by coaching peers especially on a national level. I am pleased to be able to receive this award as the coach of Central Catholic Junior-Senior High School, but I know that our players, especially our graduating seniors, were responsible for our success and the accolades that follow,” explains Bordenet. Bordenet led the Central Catholic Knights to the Indiana Class A state championship this year - the team's third state title in four years. Bordenet has been the coach at Central Catholic for 13 years (1991-1993 and 2001-present) with a record of 304-104-1. Way to go Coach Bordenet!

Tribstar's view on Regional win CC vs Rockville!!!

LAFAYETTE — If Rockville’s high school baseball players had been able to plan their trip to the Class A Lafayette Central Catholic Regional on Saturday, none of what actually occurred would have been on their lists.

The host Knights, ranked third in the state and sectional winners over top-ranked Frontier, took advantage of some shaky play by the Rox in the first inning, did some long-ball hitting in the second frame and added insult to insult in an 11-run fifth inning for an 18-0 win in the second semifinal game on Saturday.

Scarier than that outcome? The potential of the championship game later Saturday night, when the Knights faced Seton Catholic.

“They’re a great team,” Rockville senior Tyler Bradburn said of the Knights afterward. “They have a great shot at going to state [finals]. They had great hitters, a pretty good pitcher and a good defense behind him.”

Coach Bob Kyle of the Rox — who missed all but the first inning and a half — wasn’t in the mood to be quite as kind to the Knights afterward.

“They’re good,” he admitted. “They hit the ball on the button and we didn’t.”

Having the regional at LCC — where the Knights can display four Class A state championship banners, including the last two and three of the last four — provided the host team with an advantage, Kyle felt.

“It’s a situation where you hope your kids can rise above [the intimidation factor], and we didn’t do that,” Kyle said.

And the Knights’ demonstrative celebrations didn’t sit well with the old-school Rockville coach either, which is why his time in the dugout was shortened.

Visiting team on the scoreboard because of the tournament draw, the Knights got on the board quickly in the top of the first inning.

Leadoff batter Nick Stone — at about 6-foot-3 and maybe 215 pounds the biggest player to bat in the regional so far, although not the biggest of the Knights — singled up the middle and scored when Jake Churchill’s line drive got past a diving Rox outfielder for an RBI double. The Rox lost an infield popup in the high sky and wind, Ryan DeBoy singled for a second run, and two more came in when a line drive was dropped in the outfield.

“Everything fell apart early,” Kyle said later.

“I missed my spots, and [the Knights] took advantage,” added starting pitcher Zac Kempf.

With one out in the second inning, Stone reached on a bad-hop single and Churchill and Austin Munn followed with back-to-back homers.

Kyle visited Kempf on the mound and pointed out loudly that one of the Knights had taunted his pitcher during his home run trot. The next pitch hit DeBoy in the back, Kyle was ejected and both benches were warned about future retaliation.

With LCC’s Brett Haan — about 6-5, with a 90-mile-per-hour fastball — dealing on the mound, that was probably all the runs the host team needed. An infield single by Nate Fisher was all the Rox could muster, although when Derek Gregg was hit by a pitch in the bottom of the fourth inning the many Rockville fans wondered — loudly — why Haan got to stay in the game.

And in the top of the fifth, the Knights added their extra runs, including three more home run celebrations.

Disappointing as the day turned out to be, though, the three Rockville seniors — two of whom also had their basketball seasons end at the semistate in Lafayette back in March — were emphatic that it didn’t mar their season.

“My senior year has been awesome,” Kempf said. “This was my second regional appearance [of the year]. We had an up and down [baseball] season, but in the end we came through. We knocked out our No. 1 rival, [Class A’s] No. 4 Riverton Parke, in the sectional, and we got where we wanted to be.”

“It’s been awesome,” agreed first baseman Tyler Cooper. “We started off rough [this spring], but in the end we came through. It was fun; we had a great senior year and we’ve got a great team behind us.”

“It’s been amazing,” said Bradburn. “Basketball, baseball … it’s been one of the most memorable years of my life, and I’m grateful for every moment.”

Seton Catholic, a school with fewer than 75 students, got the benefit of eight errors by Wes-Del to win Saturday’s regional opener 11-1 and took a 14-12 record into the championship contest.

Junk to be posted later

The Knights will wait for title shot: wlfi.com

The Knights roll to a Regional title: wlfi.com

Knights & Bronchos ready for regionals: wlfi.com

May 30, Sectional baseball action: wlfi.com

Two area teams win at semi-state: wlfi.com

Central Catholic wins state baseball: wlfi.com

http://tribstar.com/sports/x1315239853/Rockville-baseball-overwhelmed-by-Central-Catholic

Haan pitches for North all-star team: wlfi.com

http://www.wlfi.com/dpp/sports/windler-honored-at-franklin-college

http://www.jconline.com/article/20110704/SPORTS01/107040314/J-C-Small-School-All-Area-baseball-team

http://www.jconline.com/article/20110628/SPORTS01/106280334/Area-trio-among-baseball-all-stars

http://www.jconline.com/article/20110611/SPORTS0101/106110323/Freshman-delivers-CC

Regional Champs 2011

Semi-State Champs

CC prepares for state w/ Nick interview

High School year in review!!!

Tribstars version of state finals!!!

Tribstars version of regionals!!!

SemiState win!!!

CC state title run!!!

Central Catholic Baseball celebrates: wlfi.com

Central Catholic trio blanks Rossville

Another Big Day for Nick & his Central Catholic Knights!!!

Three Central Catholic pitchers combined on a three-hitter Tuesday, and Nick Stone went 2-for-3 with two RBIs to lead the Class A No. 1 Knights to a 9-0 baseball victory over Rossville.

Winning pitcher Austin Munn struck out five and allowed two hits over four innings. Brett Haan allowed one hit in the fifth, and Trae Bobillo pitched shutout ball for the final two innings.

Jake Churchill also had two hits and Haan drove in two runs for CC.

Actually, the newspaper report is a bit incorrect. Nick was 2-2 at the plate, his 3rd at bat he reached on an error & it was scored as such. His 2 RBI's came off a triple on his 1st at bat that went deep into the right field corner & into foul territory by the time it hit and rolled.

Nick will start on the mound Friday against Delphi at Central Catholic. Delphi was runner up in the state finals last year at Victory Field in Indy.

Big Day for CC & Nick!@

Nick comes up big for Central Catholic on Saturday in a doubleheader against conference foe Carroll. A something like 72 game conference winning streak was on the line & in jeopardy in both games Saturday. The 1st game final was 1-0 in favor of CC & Nick. While getting in trouble several times he & his team bailed each other out on several occasions, especially a diving catch by Brett Haan on a deep fly to RC. Two great line drive catches by 1st baseman Ryan Deboy saved other possible damages. Nick left runners stranded at 2nd & 3rd by k'ing the last batter in the 7th.

The 2nd game saw an offensive onslaught by both teams that went back in forth. In desperation & in the 5th, Nick was brought in in the 5th, our 4th pitcher this game & with the game tied 10-10. He gave up a run (not his scored tho) & are now down 11-10 end of 5. We tie it in the 6th & in the 7th Nick puts us up 13-11 on a line drive down the 1st baseline, scoring 2 runs, he makes it to 2nd.

With 130+ pitches in the book thus far for the day & in the bottom of the 7th he allows a run and a runner & has 1 out. Austin Munn comes in and earns an "atta boy" from Nick, saving a 2nd win of the day.

By JCOnline:

Baseball

Central Catholic 1-13

Carroll 0-12

Nick Stone pitched a four-hitter in the opener and then came back to earn the Game 2 victory in relief for the Class A No. 2 Knights.

Stone struck out 10 in Game 1 and CC got the only run it needed on Devin Morgan's RBI single in the bottom of the sixth.

Brett Haan went 4-for-5 with two RBIs and Jake Churchill homered and drove in three runs in a Game 2 that saw the teams combine for 23 hits and 11 errors.

Austin Munn, CC's fifth pitcher, got the final two outs to earn the save after Stone allowed a run and struck out two in two innings of relief.

Stored links for later use

http://www.jconline.com/article/20110430/SPORTS01/104300352/1038/sports01/McCutcheon-rallies-six-run-inning-top-CC

http://www.jconline.com/article/20110419/SPORTS0101/104190346/1038/SPORTS01/Central-Catholic-wins-Class-duel-Frontier

http://www.jconline.com/article/20110425/SPORTS01/104250323/1038/SPORTS01/CC-s-Haan-leads-all-star-team-victory

http://www.wlfi.com/dpp/sports/high_school/knights-baseball-hoping-for-state-title