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Indiana High School Baseball Coaches Association INDIANA h.s. Baseball news Volume XXXXI—Issue 3 March 2014 2014 IHSBCA State Clinic The 2014 IHSBCA State Clinic saw an Plans are already being made for next years attendance of over 450 coaches on hand to clinic and we are always looking for listen to presenters, discuss baseball ideas, suggestions for speakers. If you would like to and visit the displays presented by exhibitors suggest a speaker please contact Ryan and college programs from throughout the Bunnell - Head Coach at Westfield H.S. Inside this issue: state. Listed in this edition you will find information The annual Hall of Fame banquet on Friday for the poll panel members and dates for the State Clinic Recap 1 evening was well attended as the Hall of polls, as well as other information from this & Coaches Corner Fame welcomed five new inductees. years clinic, including an update and remarks C.C.— Tim Nonte 2 from Executive Director Brian Abbott & Rule Change This years inductees included four coaches regarding actions taken on suggestions from Poll Panel 3 who have combined for over 2,000 wins, 35 the Fall meetings. You will also find contact sectional titles and 14 regional crowns and information for Professional Scouts in the area one player who spent parts of 8 MLB seasons (please contact us if you know of address Executive Director 4 with 4 teams. changes or new faces), as well as the College Update Coaches of Indiana. Professional 6 2014 INDUCTEES - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - Scouts/Addresses Dave Bischoff - Coach - New Haven H.S. Lou Giovanini - Coach - Columbus East H.S. SOUTH QUAD ELECTS VP Indiana College 7 & BOARD MEMBER Coaches Gary DeHaven - Coach - Benton Central H.S. Henry Ayres - Coach - Heritage Hills H.S. IHSBCA members in the South Quad elected Ricky Romans of Charlestown Strike out Kancer 8 Rodney “Cool Breeze” Scott - Pro Player - Indianapolis Arlington H.S. H.S. as their new Vice-President and Al Rabe as their Board of Directors member. 2014 I.H.S.B.C.A. DATES First Official Practice— coaches corner—TIM NONTE March 17th Coach Tim Nonte is our author for this the state finals in 1990. history of boys’ basketball. Those First Official Game - March 31st edition of the IHSBCA newsletter. Coach books include the following high Nonte spent 34 years in education at Tim also coached basketball at various schools: Loogootee St. John's, Sectional Play Starts - Loogootee H.S. and Princeton Community levels for thirty years – a passion that Loogootee, Princeton Lincoln, May 28th H.S. led him, following his retirement in Hazleton, Patoka, Mt. Olympus, and 1998, to an interest in putting together State Finals June 20th Princeton/Princeton Community. & 21st Coach Nonte coached varsity baseball for seven separate books dealing with the 28 years, amassing an overall record of Coach Nonte was inducted into the N/S All-Star Selection 452-289 and had a winning percentage Indiana Baseball Hall of Fame in 1994 June 21st of .610. During his career, Coach Nonte’s and has stayed active in the IHSBCA 2013 North/South All- high school teams won 11 Sectional Titles, where he most recently served on the Series at Richmond 3 Regional Championships, and 7 Board of Directors. July 11th-13th Conference Crowns. He also coached Thanks to Coach Nonte for his article Junior Showcase - July Princeton Post 25 Legion team for 13 years 11th at Richmond - winning 8 sectionals and making a trip to and his many contributions to baseball Page 2 INDIANA H.S.BASEBALL NEWS Volume XXXXI ISSUE 3 COACHES CORNER - TIM NONTE - h.o.f. 1994 “MTT”, a.k.a., “Mule Turd Theater” Tim Nonte I have undoubtedly read about the vast array of serious drills and pored through plenty of helpful information from all us old coaches and I certainly know these sources are valuable to all the new “young buck” coaches - after all, I was a very intense coach for many, many years, but as time went on, I found a person also needs a sense of humor - sometimes during the heat of the battle. Suffice it to say: throwing the ball away used to drive me nuts; I’m unsure what year in my coaching tenure it was, but I do recall that during a team butt-chewing after a particularly sloppy game, I expressed in sarcasm just what they looked like on the field and related the story of slinging mule turds in my youth. I told them that, while watching their game, my mind flashed back to a simpler time of my life – back when I was six or seven years old on my grandpa’s farm. See, my brother, Tony, and I used to slide down haystacks, climb apple trees, skinny-dip in the watering trough, throw corncobs at a mean-ass rooster and pull some outhouse pranks – well, on second thought, I won’t go there. One afternoon, when my brother and I had exhausted our supply of mischievous behavior, we ended up in the barn lot. There, Grandpa had a couple of mules and a barnyard - filled with lots of dried mule turds just a wee bit smaller than the size of baseballs. Needless to say, I hit Tony with a dried mule turd, and so, then, all hell broke loose. Let’s put it this way – you have not lived until you have been involved in a game of throwing mule turds at one another. Sometimes, they are a little fresh on the bottom and that makes it even better. Well, slinging mule turds and dodging those suckers makes for more erratic throws than normal, and that is exactly what my team looked like at a couple of points in the game. To be honest, no one dared to laugh, but a few games later, the team committed another poor overthrow and out of our dugout, I heard someone exclaim: “Mule Turd Theater.” The phrase quickly stuck with our program and me. The act of a team’s play corresponds with the innings - for example, inning two is Act 2. Scene 1 is the team’s first overthrow, Scene 2 the second, etc. Real “MTT” typically has to feature two consecutive bad throws on the same play - most scenarios involve the overthrow at first and a follow-up bad throw to second in attempting to get the runner. Another possibility occurs when there is an errant throw to second on a steal followed by another wild throw to third - three in a row on the same play is Academy Award “Oscar” worthy and can be seen occasionally on the bunt-home run at the Little League levels. The moral of my story: Cleaning up for me and my brother only meant heading back to the watering trough—with you coaches, just stop raising hell and start using the expression: “Just make the next play.” As coaches, we make out the line-up and ultimately what we put out there on the field must be the best we have - so raisingCoach hell Tim is futile; Nonte cleaning up your “MTT” game should take place in practice. In the mid 70’s at the old Jasper clinic I listened to a great presentation by coaching legend Jim Reinebold of South Bend Clay on “How to Play Catch and Throw”. PrincetonIt did not totallyH.S. cure MTT, but it sure helped. 452—289 Class of 1994 Three Veteran Coaches NEW RULE CHANGE Indiana Baseball Hall of Fame Update Pass Away Coaches - the IHSAA has The Hall of Fame had another successful year During the past couples months, three adopted the use of the courtesy and is currently looking into expanding its venue veteran coaches have passed away runner that was proposed by the in the near future. They are still making and the IHSBCA would like to extend IHSBCA. Please check with your adjustments to their website and if you have any its condolences to the families of Don AD or the IHSAA for clarification suggestions please contact Ray Howard. We Duncan of Monroe Central, Chad on the specific language and would encourage you to view their website and Hudnall of South Bend Clay and Dan implementation of the courtesy to visit the hall when you get to Jasper. Sparrow of Evansville North. runner this spring. indbaseballhalloffame.org March 2014 INDIANA H.S. BASEBALL NEWS Page 3 2014 POLL DATES 2014 Poll Panel members Pre-Season: March 10th Class 1A Jerry Schoen Dan Hanson Blake Mollenkopf Week #1 April 7th 5480 Cattle Dr. 8102 N. CR 800-W 9630 E. 375 N. Columbus, IN 47203 Middletown, IN 47356 Logansport, IN 46947 812-390-0151 765-620-9479 574-721-7634 Week #2 April 14th [email protected] [email protected] [email protected] Hauser H.S. Daleville H.S. Caston H.S. Week #3 April 21st Dave Duncan Ryan Kruszka Joe Rademacher 232 Church St. 1804 Daineway 228 South Hillside Dr. Week #4 April 28th Lynnville, IN 47619 Valparaiso, IN 46383 Montgomery, IN 47558 812-403-0074 815-955-4983 812-486-3450 [email protected] [email protected] [email protected] Week #5 May 5th Tecumseh H.S. S. Central H.S. Retired Week #6 May 12th Class 2A John Steinhilber Justin Bock Chad Combs 3208 Parker Drive 803 Spring Hill Ct. 11444 Fairview Rd. Week #7 May 19th Valparaiso, IN 46383 Fremont, IN 46737 Bennington, IN 47011 219-608-0334 260-243-1114 317-919-6996 [email protected] [email protected] [email protected] Week #8 May 26th Hebron H.S.