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Northview
Saturday — Western Boone, 11 a.m.
Saturday — North Vermillion, 4 p.m.
April 5 — At Clay City, 5 p.m.
April 7 — vs. Homestead at Rose-Hulman, 6 p.m.
April 8 — Martinsville, 5 p.m.
April 9 — Mount Vernon, noon
April 12 — At Bloomington North, 5:30 p.m.
April 14 — Shakamak, 7 p.m.
April 16 — At Plainfield, 11 a.m.
April 19 — At Sullivan (WIC), 5 p.m.
April 23 — Northview Invitational (with Bellmont and Gibson Southern), 10 a.m.
April 26 — Brown County (WIC), 6:30 p.m.
April 27 — At Mooresville, 5 p.m.
May 3 — At West Vigo (WIC), 6 p.m.
May 6 — Edgewood (WIC), 5 p.m.
May 7 — Terre Haute South in Big Four Tournament at West Vigo, 12:30 p.m.
May 7 — Terre Haute North in Big Four Tournament at West Vigo, 3 p.m.
May 10 — South Vermillion (WIC), 6 p.m.
May 13 — At Owen Valley (WIC), 5 p.m.
May 14 — Danville, 11 a.m.
May 17 — At Vincennes Lincoln, 6 p.m.
May 20 — At Carmel (Greyhound Invitational), 8:30 p.m.
May 21 — At Greyhound Invitational, 10 a.m.
May 23 — Greencastle, 7 p.m.
WIC — denotes Western Indiana Conference game

Terre Haute North
Saturday — Ben Davis (MIC), 2, 11 a.m.
April 4 — At Shakamak, 6 p.m.
April 5 — At Sullivan, 6 p.m.
April 8 — At Lafayette Tournament, TBA
April 9 — At Lafayette Tournament, TBA
April 11 — Riverton Parke, 4:30 p.m.
April 16 — Warren Central (MIC), 2, 10 a.m.
April 23 — At Lawrence North (MIC), 2, 10 a.m.
April 25 — At Rockville, 7 p.m.
April 29 — At Center Grove (MIC), 6:30 p.m.
April 30 — Center Grove (MIC) at Bob Warn Field, 10 a.m.
April 30 — Griffith at Bob Warn Field, 3 p.m.
May 5 — Terre Haute South (MIC), 6 p.m.
May 6 — At Terre Haute South (MIC), 6 p.m.
May 7 — Northview in Big Four Tournament at West Vigo, 3 p.m.
May 7 — At West Vigo in Big Four Tournament, 5:30 p.m.
May 13 — Mooresville, 5:30 p.m.
May 14 — Carmel (MIC), 2, 10 a.m.
May 16 — Bloomington South, 6 p.m.
May 18 — Vincennes Lincoln, 6 p.m.
May 21 — At Indianapolis North Central (MIC), 2, 10 a.m.
MIC — denotes Metropolitan Interscholastic Conference game


Terre Haute South
Friday — New Haven in Braves Bash, 5 p.m.
Saturday — Munster in Braves Bash, 10 a.m.
Saturday — Mount Vernon in Braves Bash, 5:30 p.m.
April 5 — Covington, 6 p.m.
April 6 — Vincennes Lincoln, 6 p.m.
April 9 — Indianapolis North Central (MIC), 2, 10 a.m.
April 12 — At South Vermillion, 5 p.m.
April 13 — At Danville, Ill., 5 p.m.
April 16 — At Ben Davis (MIC), 2, 10 a.m.
April 19 — Shakamak, 6 p.m.
April 23 — At Warren Central (MIC), 2, 10 a.m.
April 28 — Riverton Parke, 6 p.m.
April 30 — At Carmel (MIC), 2, 10 a.m.
May 5 — At Terre Haute North (MIC), 6 p.m.
May 6 — Terre Haute North (MIC), 6 p.m.
May 7 — At West Vigo in Big Four Tournament, 10 a.m.
May 7 — Northview in Big Four Tournament at West Vigo, 12:30 p.m.
May 10 — At Paris, 5:30 p.m.
May 12 — At Sullivan, 5:30 p.m.
May 14 — Center Grove (MIC), 2, 10 a.m.
May 16 — At Mooresville, 6 p.m.
May 18 — At Rockville, 7 p.m.
May 21 — Lawrence North (MIC), 2, 10 a.m.
May 23 — At Bloomington South, 6 p.m.
MIC — denotes Metropolitan Interscholastic Conference game

West Vigo
Tuesday — At Greencastle, 5 p.m.
Today — North Central, 5:30 p.m.
April 9 — At Center Grove Tournament, 10 a.m.
April 14 — At North Vermillion, 5 p.m.
April 15 — Turkey Run, 7 p.m.
April 16 — Washington, noon
April 19 — South Vermillion (WIC), 6 p.m.
April 20 — At Paris, 5:30 p.m.
April 23 — At Franklin Central Tournament, 11 a.m.
April 26 — Sullivan (WIC), 5:30 p.m.
April 28 — Vincennes Lincoln, 6:30 p.m.
April 30 — At Brown County (WIC), 2, 11 a.m.
May 3 — Northview (WIC), 6 p.m.
May 6 — At Owen Valley (WIC), 5 p.m.
May 7 — Terre Haute South in Big Four Tournament, 10 a.m.
May 7 — Terre Haute North in Big Four Tournament, 5 p.m.
May 11 — At Edgewood (WIC), 5 p.m.
May 12 — Clay City, 5 p.m.
May 14 — Indy Kings, 2, 11 a.m.
May 16 — At South Putnam, 5:30 p.m.
May 18 — At Sullivan, 5 p.m.
May 21 — At Rockville, 11 a.m.
May 23 — At Shakamak, 7 p.m.
May 24 — Riverton Parke, 7 p.m.
WIC — denotes Western Indiana Conference game

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March 30, 2011

Stats show Big Four baseball teams primed for another successful season

Andy Amey The Tribune-Star

TERRE HAUTE — They won 70 percent of their high school baseball games last spring.

Two won sectionals, one for the fourth straight time. Three won at least 21 games, and the one that didn’t crack the 20-win barrier shared a conference championship.

Need any more reasons for calling that baseball tournament on the first Saturday in May the Big Four?

Northview has the bragging rights over its Vigo County neighbors in terms of winning percentage going into the 2011 season, the Knights finishing 23-6 a year ago. The Knights also shared the Western Indiana Conference championship.

Terre Haute North didn’t win 20 games, but included in the Patriots’ 17-13 mark was a 9-5 record in the Metropolitan Interscholastic Conference, good enough for a first-place tie.

West Vigo shared the WIC title with Northview and finished with a 21-6 record, winning its sectional and reaching the regional championship game before losing 6-4 to eventual state runner-up Jasper.

And Terre Haute South’s 22-10 campaign included its fourth straight sectional crown — which means that the Braves won one of those before current senior A.J. Reed even arrived.

Reed, whose 90-mile-per-hour, late-moving fastball makes South the favorite in any tournament the Braves are in according to at least one opposing coach, also hit 18 home runs last spring, sixth-best total in Indiana high school history. He enters this season as the area’s most famous player, but certainly not its only good one.



• Northview — Zac Niehaus returns as an all-state honorable-mention selection and four-year starter for coach Scott McDonald, leading a list of returnees who should make the Knights potent again.

Niehaus, who will play the outfield most of the time this year, will be joined by a number of other familiar faces — seniors Andrew Butts (utility), Joey Thomas (second base) and Seth Lunsford (catcher) and juniors Cody Girton (outfield), Zach Hull (first base) and T.J. Decker (shortstop).

Two other experienced seniors are pitcher-outfielder Carson Kleiber and pitcher-infielder Caleb Mershon, although Girton figures to be the ace of the staff. Also vying for regular playing time are sophomore pitcher-shortstop Craig Peters and freshman Conner Pierce, whose bat may force McDonald to find a place for him.

Other seniors are Curtis Grove, Devin Harvey, Jordan King and Tyler Trout, while junior candidates are Coleman Craig, Tanner Glenn, Bryant Pestoff and Brock Wheeler; Wheeler is currently on the injured list.

“We’re pretty excited where we’re at,” McDonald said, although lamenting the loss of graduated all-state third baseman Caleb Mason.

Once again the Knights figure to be fun to watch too, with most of them threats to use outstanding speed on the bases. “We’ll score a lot of runs,” McDonald predicted. “It will be a matter of keeping the other people from scoring.” The Knights host Western Boone and North Vermillion in a season-opening round-robin event on Saturday.

• Terre Haute North — Coach Shawn Turner counts on five returning regulars and the experience of having 13 seniors to improve the Patriot fortunes this spring.

Two of the returnees will be starting for the third season at North and still aren’t members of that senior class — juniors Cody Gardner, who moves from second base to shortstop this season, and Tony Rosselli, who moves from right field to center field. Left fielder Michael Mace will be a regular for the fourth straight year, and two more seniors back in their usual spots are first baseman David Knight and third baseman Garrett Peabody.

Senior Dalton Sexton and junior Scottie Finzel could share the catcher position, while seniors Michael Davenport and Cam Grim are working in right field and senior Dalton Hathaway and junior Nickohli Kimmel are possibilities at second.

Four senior left-handers — Sebastian Mundy, Bryan Nacke, John Robert Patterson and Jordan Watson — head a pitching staff that also includes Sexton, Kimmel, Davenport, senior Justin Norton and junior Adler Ingalsbe. Senior Marlin Hill has a bat that could win a position — or a designated hitter role.

“Seniority and pitching look to be our strengths,” Turner said, “and the kids are buying in, listening, learning and hustling.”

“We lost three three-year starters [catcher Dougie Collett, center fielder Andrew Gauer and shortstop Parker Fulkerson], but we’re pretty excited about what the season has to offer,” the coach concluded. North opens with a MIC doubleheader at home Saturday against Ben Davis.

• Terre Haute South — The good news for coach Kyle Kraemer and the Braves is that Reed — who had some arm soreness last spring and minor knee surgery in the fall — is completely healthy for his senior season.

“Anytime he pitches we’re going to be in the game,” Kraemer agreed recently. “Offensively, we’ve got to find somebody to protect him [in the batting order].”

Ricky Wheatfill, beginning his third season as a starting infielder, will probably be the first choice to bat behind Reed and will move to shortstop to replace Jacob Hayes, now at Ohio State. Other regulars back are senior left fielder Brent Mulvihill, sophomore catcher Preston Tofaute and senior Jimmy Maxwell, whose duties this season could include being a starting pitcher, a closer, a first baseman and occasionally a backup catcher.

Junior Brandon Joyner and freshman Jacob Johnson are vying for the second base position, while the candidates at third include juniors Matt Townsend and Daniel Marlow and senior Luke Vaccaro. Vaccaro is also in the mix with junior Colton Rupska in right field, with senior Marcus Hill and junior Warren Rollings competing in center and junior Spencer Whitlock backing up Mulvihill in left.

Reed, who plays first base when he’s not pitching, anchors the pitching staff led by returnees Maxwell and Mulvihill. Marlow, Townsend, Tofaute, Joyner and Whitlock are other mound candidates.

“We’ve got a lot of guys back, a lot with experience,” Kraemer said. “We have a lot of competition [for positions] that we haven’t had for a long time.”

South opens this weekend with its Braves Bash, playing New Haven — top-ranked team in Class 3A — on Friday and Munster and Mount Vernon (Posey) on Saturday.

• West Vigo — Although the Vikings were state runners-up in 2009, coach Steve DeGroote was just as happy with last year’s team that threatened to go to the finals again despite losing three college-bound players (Indiana State’s Jeremy Lucas and Jordan Pearson and Wright State’s Cameron Fagg).

Tyler Wampler joined Lucas and Pearson at ISU after graduating from last year’s team, but DeGroote — to the surprise of no one — is still excited about the 2011 potential.

Scott West, beginning his fourth year as a regular — and another future Sycamore — and fellow senior Zack Kent will man two of the most important spots in the lineup, alternating between pitcher and shortstop.

West was recruited by Indiana State as a catcher, however, and he’ll also fill that role, probably when senior lefty Ryan Crowther is on the mound. Other pitchers who could see action are junior Tyler Fields and sophomore Kevin Stewart.

Cogan Stewart, Kevin’s cousin, will usually be the regular catcher, although he could also see action at second base. Austin Wallace is a potential catcher for the future.

Crowther is a defensive stalwart at first base, backed up by junior Kaleb Blair, and sophomore Lucas Fagg will get the first crack at the second base job. Senior Nolan Flinn returns at third.

“Seven straight years I’ve had an Aff in center field,” DeGroote said, although senior Dylan will be the end of the line that started with his older brother Drew in 2005. Junior Cody Thornton returns for his third season as the starting right fielder, while Kyle Stewart — Kevin’s twin — will be in left. Three more sophomores — Kevin Stewart, Cade Lindsey and Brandon Calleja — are the outfield reserves.

Pitching is what makes DeGroote most excited this spring, he hinted.

“I’m so pumped for this year,” he said. “More than one of [West, Kent and Crowther] could have a banner year on the mound.” Weather permitting, the Vikings opened Tuesday at Greencastle and have their home opener today against North Central.

• Speaking of North Central … Linton and South Putnam are defending Class 2A sectional champions, and Shakamak, Rockville and Riverton Parke should have some good moments this season. Paris could be on its way to a good season in Illinois.

But North Central was a Class A regional champion a year ago, losing 4-3 in the semistate to eventual runner-up Tecumseh. Although the Thunderbirds had just a 15-12 record then, they had it with a young nucleus — a nucleus bolstered by pitcher Craig Bell, a transfer who was in Northview’s regular rotation last year.

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