2006 Miracle Yearbook

Baseball dr`a•o""1% The Yellow Jacket Baseball team started team. More than 500 fans turned out to see Senior Kiel played their season well before the grass was green and the flowers were sprouting. Everyday is a good day for baseball, so their season began in late February with an extra inning loss against Cumber- land. Cedarville managed an impressive 17 hits in the defeat. Matt Houchin, Alex Pummell, and Brady Workman all had two hits in the game. The first half of the Yellow Jacket season was filled with promise, going through 20 games with nearly a .500 record. The team well throughout the second half of the year, but wins stayed just out of reach. Bonyton's 9 inning complete game gem but were disap- pointed with a 4-1 loss to Wilmington. Richie Reeder had the YellowJackets' lone RBI, with a single driving in Paul Wilson. At the end of April, Paul Wilson was leading in batting with Derek Woloshyn, Matt Totten, and Richie Reeder not far behind. Seniors Matt Bonin and Kiel Boynton headed up the pitching staff while Derek Koogler, Kiel Boynton, and Matt Houchin each finished with 3 wins pitching. Pitcher Dan White said of the season,"We competed hard throughout the year, and if we could have continued our early success, we could have done some big things in the post season." The team ended the year on the bats of Andrew Noble and Matt Houchin, who produced the winning run in a 3-2 victory over Shawnee State. Noble opened the inning Highlighting the season was a game hosted by the Yellow Jackets at with his 13th double of the season, and Houchin batted Fifth Third Field, the home of the Dayton Dragons minor league him in for the game winner. Back row standing left to right: Matt Bonin, Tyler Owens, Zach Hanna, Andrew Noble, Matt Houchin, Jared Griest, Pete Kraus, Brady Workman. Third row: Phil Westenbarger, Alex Pummell, Assistant Coach Travis Allen, Assistant Coach John Meyer, Head Coach Greg Hughes, Assistant Coach David Snow, Student Assistant Anthony Weleski, Dan White, Derek Woloshyn Second row: Micah Wilson, Jordan Shumaker, Kiel Boynton, Richie Reeder, Matt Owens, Kevin Brown, Josh Chamberlin, Jordan Siefkes. Front row: Matthew Chamberlin, Derek Koogler, Phil Buben, Dave DiLernia, Ian Johnson, Tim Hubler, Paul Wilson, Bryan Lutes. 2.28 3.4 3.4 3.6 3.6 3.7 3.8 3.9 3.9 3.10 3.11 3.23 3.24 3.28 3.29 4.1 4.4 4.5 Cedarville University Yellow Jackets litk at Cumberlands KY Easter Mennonite Trinity International Trinity International Northwestern IA Northwestern IA Kenyon Northwestern IA Trinity International Kenyon at Berea at Rio Grande Rio Grande Myers Indiana Wesleyan at Ohio Dominican Tiffin Bluffton L,W W, L L, L W,W W, L W, L L, L 7-8 5-3 8-1 1-8 4-3 2-8 5-23 14-13 5-8 7-17 2-9, 11-4 2-1, 3-13 13-17, 6-9 5-2, 6-0 4-1, 0-2 7-6, 4-5 3-15, 6-8 10-12 4.8 4.13 4.14 4.17 4.18 4.19 4.21 4.22 4.26 4.28 4.29 at Taylor Mount Vernon at Mount Vernon at Capital at Tiffin Wilmington at Urbana Urbana Ohio Dominican at Shawnee State Shawnee State L, L 0-2, 0-7 L, L 2-14, 3-7 L, W 2-12, 6-2 L 6-8 L, L 8-11, 0-11 L 1-4 L 1-9, 6-12 L, L 2-11, 3-9 L, L 2-10, 5-13 L, L 1-3, 0-4 L, W 4-9, 3-2 12-33 Overall 4-20 American Mideast Conference South Div.