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Blake Ress, Commissioner
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June
17, 2006
FORT WAYNE SNIDER WINS TITLE IN FIRST APPEARANCE
The Fort
Wayne Snider Panthers made a late run to pull ahead of the Indianapolis
Cathedral Fighting Irish 4-2 and claim the Class 4A state championship in eight
innings. Snider prevented Cathedral, led
by coach Rich Andriole, from becoming the first school
to claim a baseball state title in two different classes.
Fort Wayne
Snider (26-6) was the first team to score after junior Josh Johnson hit a
single to center field, allowing sophomore Austin Grate to cross the plate in
the second inning.
Cathedral
(31-3) had their first runs of the game in the fifth inning after a two-out
single from senior shortstop Jim Roesinger brought in two runs.
Fort Wayne
Snider, led by coach Andy Owen, answered in the
seventh inning. With a runner on third,
Johnson flied out to center field bringing in Ryan Davis for the tying
run. The Panther defense held for the remainder
of regulation, forcing the game into extra innings.
Cathedral
pitcher Cy Fraker (11-1) came in for starter Anthony
Agnew in the eighth inning. Agnew could
not hold back the Panther surge, however, giving up two runs off a double from
senior Jeff Batesole.
Senior Tony
Sedlmeyer then forced three batters to strike out swinging for the Irish.
Snider
pitcher Chris LaGrow (8-0) earned the win for the Panthers, striking out 10 in
6 1/3 innings.
CATHEDRAL SHORTSTOP JIM ROESINGER WINS L.V. PHILLIPS MENTAL ATTITUDE
AWARD
Cathedral
senior shortstop Jim Roesinger is the 2006 IHSAA Class 4A recipient of the L.V.
Phillips Mental Attitude Award as selected by members of the IHSAA Executive
Committee.
Roesinger
delivered a key two-run single in the bottom of the fifth to give Cathedral a
2-1 lead in the championship game.
Roesinger is a three-year letterman in baseball who
earned all-city recognition twice and served as team captain this season. He also lettered three seasons in football
for the Fighting Irish, earning the school’s “Male Athlete of the Year”
recognition in 2005-06 and Academic All-State honors in 2005.
Roesinger
graduated with a 3.93 cumulative grade point average. The National Honor Society student was active
as a peer mentor, in math league, and as a Habitat for Humanity volunteer all
four years. He also served as a CYO
coach in football, basketball, and baseball.
“In the
past 27 years, I have never observed a student-athlete who would meet the criteria
for an IHSAA mental attitude award more than Jim Roesinger,” said Cathedral
principal David J. Worland. “He is a
leader by example who goes out of his way to help our needy students who are not the star athletes nor high achievers.”
The award
is presented annually to an outstanding senior participant in each
classification who has demonstrated excellence in mental attitude, scholarship,
leadership and athletic ability in baseball.
The award is named in honor of the late L.V. Phillips, who served as the
second commissioner of the IHSAA from 1945-62.
Indiana
Farm Bureau Insurance, the corporate partner of the IHSAA, presented a $1,000
scholarship to Cathedral High School in the name of Jim Roesinger.
Roesinger,
the son of James and Mary Roesinger, plans to attend DePauw University and play
both football and baseball.
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CHAMPIONSHIP MERCHANDISE STILL AVAILABLE
For t-shirts
and other merchandise commemorating this year’s tournament or for any of our
events, visit our friends at Morris,
Inc.
STATE FINALS PROGRAMS AVAILABLE
Couldn’t be
there for the state finals? You can still purchase a copy of the official
souvenir program while supplies last! Programs are $3.00 if you purchase in
person at the IHSAA Office (