Hendersonville High School Baseball: Welcome

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WELCOME TO HENDERSONVILLE HIGH SCHOOL BASEBALL.....

Welcome to the official home of Hendersonville High School Baseball. Here you can: find game schedules, view rosters, see pictures of game action and activities, get directions to games(available by clicking on the blue star next beside the location of the game), keep up with information about upcoming booster club events, keep track of former Commandos now playing college baseball, and much more. Click on a game at the bottom of the page for more information about a past or upcoming game. We'll see ya at the park! NOW FOR THE NEWS..

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7/24/08 BOOSTER CLUB MEETING JULY 31 @ HHS

 We will have our first Booster Club Meeting to kick off the 2008-2009 season on Thursday July 31 in the lecture room of the gym lobby at HHS.

Incoming 9th Graders and their parents should be there at 6:30 so that we can go over some important information with you and give you a chance to get to ask questions you may have before all the returning players and parents are there.

 We will then meet at 7:30 with all players and parents.  This meeting will be very important as we will go over important information about our first fundraiser of the year our Titans Season Tickets Drawing.  

All players and parents are expected to be at this meeting next Thursday July 31.  If you have any questions you may contact Coach Gilley at 477-8123 or Kent Snyder at 456-6358.

We look forward to seeing everyone next Thursday! 

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7/16/08  2008-2009 TRY-OUTS RESULTS

Thanks to everyone who came out for our 2008-2009 try-outs.  The following people have made the team.  Check here and in your mailbox for a date for our first booster club meeting in August...

 Cayman Russell

Adam Dorris

Caleb Bowerman 

JT Venable

Jason Hasty

Hunter Brown

Clay Iaquinta

Michael Caldwell

Austin Bivens

Nick Newton

Seth Nolan

Jordan Holland

Chauncey Thomas

Jeff Long

Ryan Brown

Alex Aubrey

Tommy Hertz

Mason Kalada

Micky Aubrey

Andrew Bennett

Ryan Dillehay 

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6/29/08 SNYDER AND HENDRIX NAMED TO ALL-REGION TEAM

Congratulations to Juniors Ben Hendrix and Kendall Snyder for being named to the Tennessee Baseball Coaches Association Region 5 All-Region team for 2008.  They join a solid list of players from all classifications and all levels.   Here is the list...

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6/29/08 NINE COMMANDOS NAMED TO ALL-COUNTY SQUAD

HHS tied with Beech High School for the most players named to the 2008 All-County Baseball Team.  Kendall Snyder, Ben Hendrix and AJ Dulay were named to the first team.  Brandon Hall, Chad McDaniel and Dennis Jones were named to the second team.  Daniel Tucker, Colton Mansfield and Lundy Slaton were named to the honorable mention team.  Congratulations to all these young men for outstanding effort! Here is the All-County list...

Player of the Year: Robert Hansen, So., P, Beech 

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5/30/08 DENTON AND EBINGER RECEIVE NATIONAL NAIA HONORS

Congratulations to Drew Denton who earned his fifth post-season award following a strong season at the University of the Cumberlands.  The Junior second baseman received the Rawlings Gold Glove for second basemen for all of NAIA.  Only 63 gold gloves are given out at the college level each year.  One to each position in NAIA, NCAA Division I, II, III and JUCO Division I and II.  Denton made only four errors for the whole season for the Cumberlands.

Also Congratulations to Sophomore lefty Brent Ebinger who was named Honorable Mention All-American by the NAIA national committee.  Ebinger was 10-2 on the year for Lambuth who made an appearance in the NAIA Regional tournament for the first time in many years.

These awards can all be see on NAIA.org.  Congratulations to these two young men for two gerat honors! 

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5/30/08 2005 GRAD MCCLURG PITCHES WELL AGAINST GA TECH

2005 Graduate Brandon McClurg gave Lipscomb a chance to defeat national power Georgia Tech in the winner's bracket final of the NCAA Regional Tournament in Athens on Saturday, but ultimately the Bison fell to the Yellow Jackets 6-3.  McClurg struck out six and walked only one hitter before being relieved with two outs in the eighth inning only to watch GA Tech take the lead on a double, 5-3.  The junior was impressive all night long for Lipscomb and we are very proud to have an alumni represent our baseball program on a national stage.  Congratulations to Brandon for a great season for Lipscomb.

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5/30/08 NICHOLSON AND HALL MAKE TBCA SHOWCASE TEAM

Congratulations to rising seniors Brandon Hall and Ryne Nicholson for being selected to participate in the Tennessee Baseball Coaches Association Showcase on June 20 and 21 at Lipscomb University in Nashville.  They will join other players from all over middle-Tennessee to play against teams from East and West Tennessee as selected by high school and junior college coaches from throughout the state.  They join the following Commandos who have made this team over the past few years:  2007-AJ Dulay 2006-Roo Collins 2005-Alex White and Stick Sinyard 2004-David Richardson 2002-Wilson Tucker and Jeff Whitaker 2001-Cory White and Tommy Decker.  

 Congratulations to Brandon and Ryne as we know they will represent Hendersonville Baseball well! 

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5/16/08 SEVERAL COMMANDOS RECEIVE POST-SEASON AWARDS AT BANQUET

Our annual baseball banquet was held on Thursday May 16 with several Commandos receiving post-season honors as well as the Innagural Commando Baseball Hall of Fame Class being inducted.

HHS place four players on the 2008 All-District team, second only to district champion Mt. Juliet who had five players on the squad.  Sophmore Left-Handed Pitcher Dennis Jones was named Left-Handed Pitcher of the Year in District 9AAA.  Senior A.J. Dulay and Juniors Kendall Snyder and Ben Hendrix were named to the All-District Team.  Brandon Hall, Hendrix and Snyder were also named to the District 9AAA All-Tournament Team!  In addition, Kendall Synder was named to the USA Classic All-Tournament Team for 2008.  Lundy Slaton was the winner of the Worth Scott award for 2008, our only team award which is given for pride and dedication to HHS Commando Baseball.

 Also last night we inducted four former players and two former coaches into the Commando Baseball Hall of Fame.  Chris Carroll, DeWayne White, Tommy Stamps, Gary Williams, Charlie Lewis and Bob White were our first group of people inducted into the hall of fame.  All of them were present with their familes and each one had great words about their experiences as Commando Baseball Players and great words of advice for our current players.  We were honored to have them present last night and excited to be able to create a Hall of Fame, making us the only sport in our school which has such.  These players were given a plaque and their names will be on a bigger plaque in our trophy case in the gym lobby at school and their names will be displayed at each home game from now on!  Also we have created a special section on our website for our Hall of Fame where you will be able to find pictures from last night's induction ceremony and a list of the each player inducted.

Thanks again to everyone for a great 2008 season and stayed tuned here as more Commandos will be up for more awards within the next couple of weeks!

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 COMMANDO BASEBALL THROUGH THE YEARS.....

DISTRICT 9AAA CHAMPIONS 1977, 1978, 1980, 1993, 1994, 1996, 2000, 2003
DISTRICT 9AAA RUNNER-UP   1974, 1995, 1999, 2005, 2006
REGIONAL TOURNAMENT       1980, 1993, 1994, 1995, 1996, 1999, 2000, 2003, 2005
STATE TOURNAMENT             1994, 1999, 2000, 2003
WORTH SCOTT AWARD WINNERS -- 2008 Lundy Slaton

                         2007 - Roo Collins
                         2006 - Janet and DeWayne White
                         2005 - Paul Decker
                         2004 - Wayne Denton
                         2003 - Brad Allen