This is how my team left the dugout after a tough loss to end our season. It was a tough day where a number of things didn’t go our way and they still left the field like this—without me telling them to do so. Proud of my guys for fighting until the last out.
@Leg_baseball
Umpire called a strike. You sure the field umpire didn’t call a balk here? Player was going back to base and looked out in the field then celebrated as he came home. Looks like a balk may have been called.
Please welcome Coach Guy Howard and his family to
@NHSJagBaseball
. Coach Howard's stops have included Orange Beach High School and Hewitt-Trussville. He brings tremendous vision for building championship programs and high performing student-athletes.
@tuscaloosanews
@h_tusc
Beyond grateful for my time at Hewitt. The amount of success we’ve enjoyed doesn’t compare to the relationships made with colleagues, players, students, and parents. This was a tough decision, but Holly and I are excited for what the future holds.
Congrats
@glhoward12
for being named Head Baseball Coach at Orange Beach High School. Guy was a big reason for our success the last 7 years developing our players. While at Hewitt we won the 2016 state championship, appeared in 3 state finals & final 4 four years.
#theHTprocess
Area champs. Really proud of this group. They’ve played a tough schedule and have done well so far. Playoff baseball in our state is really hard to beat. Best time of the year. Despite the fact that these knuckleheads drive me crazy at times, I’m thankful to be around them.
Wow! Back to back weeks with must win games on the road to keep our season alive. A word we like to use in our program is grit and we showed a lot of it this weekend. First road playoff series win in school history. Very proud of this group! On to the Sweet 16!
Jags are moving on to round 2 with a 4-1 win. Gutsy pitching from Paul Reid and Bodie Vail ,Jones Colgrove and Davis Randolph led at the plate with 2 hits each. Survive and advance
Basketball plays half the players baseball does but gets more scholarships? If the argument is bc NCAA bball brings in more money, then how do you explain hockey getting 6.3 more scholarships?
The first time I heard the Gospel I was 12 yrs old at one of Coach Shoop’s camps. I was invited by his son and my little league teammate. When I look back on my life, that camp really changed me. Thank you Coach Shoop for the Man of God you are. God bless you in your retirement.
Another rained out practice means finding creative ways to get work in. Tonight we got the chance to use Alabama’s indoor football facility. We got some quality work in and even had time to play some 7 on 7. I don’t think Coach Saban will be recruiting our guys anytime soon 😂
Got tired of practicing on a wet field so we made a trip up the highway to the
@hoovermetplex
to get our scrimmage in. Thank you to the parents who drove us and made the trip possible. Just over 2 weeks away from opening day!
What a great night! Two great pitching performances, timely hitting, sound defense, and a great atmosphere to play in. I’m so very proud and happy for this team! Especially our seniors!!
Thank you to my seniors. Can’t say how much I love you guys! What y’all have done over the last two years for Northridge baseball has been outstanding. Thank you for giving me your best, leading and playing with class, leaving a legacy, and helping put the ‘Ridge on the map!
Our end of the year banquet is typically a fun night. This year, however, was the night I told my juniors I wasn’t coming back. Hardest thing I’ve done in my entire life. I’m forever grateful for my time at Northridge and for the people that help make it a special place. Go Jags!
We played our worst baseball in over a month, had a few breaks not go our way and still managed to have the tying run at the plate late in both games. We fought until the very end. Congrats to Faith Academy. Good team. The best is yet to come for our program. Go Jags!
Northridge’s historic season ends in the Final 4 of the state tournament. Great run for a great team. Thank you all for following along on this ride. The best is yet to come.
#GoJags
Lots of really good things in this clip—ball hit up the middle with R on 3rd, 3B runner reads down angle & goes home immediately, R on 2B is aggressive & scores on an infield single, and on deck hitter tells runner to slide. Jag baseball. Proud of how my guys opened the season
What a great night and fun ride we’re having. Great pitching again, timely hitting, 2-strike hitting, not one error in either game, good baserunning, and a lot of energy!! On to the semi’s to face our toughest challenge yet!
Jags are final 4 bound with a 6-1 win. Complete game from Bodie Vail and a tape measure home run from Davis Randolph and Garland Brazil pick up 2 key hits also. Thanks to all who came out as it was an awesome crowd !
Proud of my guys. Rode on a bus for an hour and a half to play in sloppy conditions only to open the season up with a win. Lot of work to do, but saw some good signs.
Congrats to Saraland on a well played series.
@Brett_Boutwell
you have a good squad, great facilities, and passionate fans. Y’all will be tough to beat moving forward. Good luck the rest of the way!
Another WWBA in the books. Close to 500 teams and we finished in the top 16. Proud of our guys for how we played. Fun group to be around, too. Going to enjoy some time with my own children for a while then off to Hoover next week!
My mentor and friend! Jeff has meant more to me, my family, and my career than he’ll ever know. I don’t know how many of the 700 I was apart of, but I’m thankful for each one! Congrats
@mauldin_jeff
-this is well earned!
Good thing
@coachswife020
kept count all these years😀
Really proud of my guys for bouncing back after a tough extra inning loss Tuesday night. To do it on the road and against one of the top programs in our state makes it even more impressive. Still have two weeks of the regular season left, but we’ll take a minute to enjoy this one
Northridge goes on the road to rival Hillcrest and sweeps them🧹🧹
The Jags won the first game 17-3 and the second one 9-4
In game one: Barret Rodgers was 4-5 with 6 RBI’s and a homerun. Brady McAbee had 2 hits, Anthony Messina and Thomas Woolf both had 2 RBI’s.
#GoJags
Great performance by our senior. We needed to win and he threw his best game of the year. Paul worked out of jams, made big pitches, and was gritty all night. Proud of our guys for responding after a tough loss in the first game.
I know I’m biased, but how is Tate Robertson not anywhere on this list? His ERA was closer to 1 than it was to 2, had over 100 more K’s than walks, was dominant in the playoffs, and led his team to the semifinals for the first time in school history. Really think we missed here.
Really thankful for all of the Northridge baseball parents that came out to today’s work day. We have 1 of the best facilities in the state thanks to y’all! Hate our team didn’t play better during our intersquad, but a bad day at the park with my guys is better than any other day
Proud of my guys for bouncing back after a tough loss last night. The beauty of baseball is after a tough game you get a chance to get back out there pretty quickly. Best part of the night may have been all the alumni who came back to see us play. I really appreciated that.
We celebrated one senior’s birthday a little late and another one’s a little early. Happy Birthday Whit and Bodie! We are so thankful to what y’all have meant to our program the last few years!
A new year means a new senior class and for us means senior birthdays! This dude right here is tough and is one of our best leaders. He ran extra sprints this week with a freshman who didn’t make his times so he didn’t have to run by himself. HBD Tone! Thankful for you.
I’m really excited about this news. It’s been a tough few months for Whitt, and what most ppl don’t know is how hard recruiting is for this senior class. Despite this, he refused to give up & found a good fit in a really good program. The best is yet to come for this kid!
Tonight after workouts we celebrated Paul Reid’s birthday. Not only is he one of our senior leaders, but he’s the only baseball player I’ve ever coached to take my AP calculus class 🤓. Happy Birthday Paul!
I can’t believe they got me to slide…😂😝😏…we had such a great time with a great group of ball players. The future is bright at the ‘Ridge! Thank you to all the coaches who helped run a first class camp and to all the campers who showed up!
Love this kid. Hard working, great attitude, great teammate, is always smiling and always in a good mood. And he’s in my AP calculus class!Thankful I get to coach kids like him and his teammates. Happy Birthday
@SamScharfenberg
!!
Good thread here on the situation Hoover Baseball and Coach Moseley are in. In a time when we are begging people to go into education and coaching, the results of this situation (which now has national attention) doesn’t make the profession very appealing.
I just have such a difficult time wrapping my head around this kind of nonsense.
Adam Moseley should've been at the Central Board meeting today, being commended for bringing positive attention to Alabama through his work with USA Baseball & American Baseball Coaches Assocation.
This kid is one of the best pure athletes I’ve ever been around. He came out yesterday in his first live scrimmage and had three hits and made every play that came his way. Congrats
@BodieV
on a great Northridge basketball career
A1: Keep ball in front of you, get the ball back in to INF as quick as possible, keep the double play in order, long hop or no hop to the infielders, no short hops!!
#ABCAchat
Glad to be a part of a church that does free COVID-19 testing and now letting other pastors in the area come use our resources to record messages for their own congregation.
Blessed to get to show up to work everyday at one of the nicer baseball facilities in the state. And we are getting close to finishing up the remodel of our indoor cages and weight room. Great things happening at the Ridge!
Happy Birthday Wes! He is the fastest kid in the program, is a selfless teammate, and a tough competitor! He’s a huge asset to our program and I’m thankful to be around him daily. Hope you have a great day!
When you have God-given talent, show up everyday and work hard (and get a lot of extra work in), and are a great teammate good things tend to happy to you. Congrats
@JackSanderson00
Auburn is getting not only a solid LHP but an even better kid that comes from a great family.
Camp week can be exhausting, but also a lot of fun as I get to spend time around our future kids AND we get to slide to end the week 😜. Special thanks to the players and parents for helping make the week a success. Huge thanks to my wife who helped with the admin side of camp
Shout out to our seniors who had to deal with a new coach who demanded a lot, they worked hard all year, and were rewarded with making it to the semifinals for the first time in program history. I’m very fortunate to have gotten to coach each of you.
I’ve coached very few guys, if any, that work harder, have such a passion for winning, and truly knows the game beyond his age. Congrats
@TylerMauldin6
!
@NWFSCbaseball
is getting a great player.
Bears check in at
#4
. We haven’t played perfectly, but I’m proud of this group for how they’ve handled a very difficult schedule up to this point. Looking forward to starting region play in one of the toughest 3A regions in the state 💪🏼
We had a great time at camp this past week with
@ThePelhamWayBSB
! We worked on all the fundamentals, played games, and of course finished with slip-n-slide. Thank you to all the future Panthers who showed up. And thank you to the coaches and players who made it a great week!
Really excited
@WinfieldWhitt
was awarded this opportunity. He’s a leader for us on and off the field, works hard, studies film, always one of the first guys that shows up to practice, lives at the field taking extra swings, and is a good teammate. Well deserved!
Really proud of this kid and the type of year he’s having. Much more important is the type of person he’s developing into.
@RodgersBarret
has grown into a leader and has been one of our glue guys (he keeps our team together when things aren’t going well). Happy Birthday Barret!
So excited for one of our leaders. Hard worker, plays with passion, hates to lose, and is a great teammate. All the qualities you want in a player. When he told the team today they were genuinely happy for him. This shows what kind of person he is. Congrats Davis!!
Varsity Bears win 10-0 on opening day behind a solid pitching performance from
@mcgaha_lane
who tossed 5 shutout innings. Lane also added 2 RBI at the plate,
@LukeBabb3
had 2 hits, 2 RBI, scored 2 runs, and Landon Davis had a 2 RBI triple.
Back at it on Monday night at TL Hanna
I had a great weekend coaching
@eastcoastbball
‘22 National team at the WWBA East 16U Championship in Hoover. We made it to the championship bracket but fell a couple games short. Congrats to
@Steven11_jr
and
@JD_Nichols3
for throwing a combined no-hitter!
This kid can really play. He’s been at football since August and came out tonight in our first scrimmage and had 2 hits. Whitt is a great teammate, vocal leader, and plays with tons of energy! He’s definitely a guy you want in the clubhouse.
I’m proud of how we played tonight against a really good team. Home crowd was really good, pitchers threw exceptionally well, offense was good enough, we ran the bases well, and defense was solid. All in all we looked like a ball club tonight. One week until opening day!
Excited to be in this event against some really good teams. Tournaments like this really show the makeup of your team. Looking forward to watching my guys compete over the next couple of days.
Jags pick up a win over Providence (FL) 3-1. Strong pitching from Matthew Sheffield 5 shutout innings allowing 1 hit. Will Ingram, Bodie Vail and Davis Randolph collected 2 hits each.
#junglejags
I’m so grateful I get to work with an incredible organization like
@eastcoastbball
where I get to coach some of the best players in the southeast and get to play in great venues like these.
Senior birthday! We are a few days late celebrating but we are happy to celebrate Jack! He is a great teammate, does anything you ask, and is one of the funnier guys on the team. Very thankful to coach him. Happy Birthday Jack!
After Brady got finished with his physical therapy today, he comes back into the weight room and starts showing some freshmen how to properly do some of our lifts. He did this without being prompted to. This is the kind of human Snead is getting.
Tough one last night. Proud of our guys for playing a difficult schedule all year and finishing runner up in one of the better regions in the state. Not the result we wanted but still a lot to be proud of. Looking forward to watching this team compete in the playoffs! 💪🏼
I’m fortunate to have coached
@KerriganEdmons1
for 3 years. He’s a good left handed hitter who plays the game the right way—tons of energy and passion.
@BamaStateBB
is getting a good one. Proud of you!!
A2: Starting my first HC job this upcoming year so I'm thankful to have been around Jeff Mauldin at Hewitt-Trussville (AL) the past 7 years. None better in this state. Thankful for
@CoachSheets3
for all he does with ABCA chats, podcasts, and the youtube channel.
#ABCAchat
A ball player is someone who does all the things necessary to help you win. Mayson is a ball player. Kid got quality playing time as an 8th grader and now an everyday player as a FR. He plays good defense, steals bases, gets HBP, gets big hits for us, and scores runs every game.
‘26 2B/SS Mayson Elam (
@ElamMayson
;
@NHSJagBaseball
) gets a pitch on the outer half and shoots it the other way for a single as the Jaguars are threatening in the 5th.
Top 20 player in the ‘26 AL class, hitting out of the 2-hole for a solid 6A squad.
Congrats to our 3 guys who signed their commitments to play college baseball tonight. And thank you to the baseball alumni who showed back up to support these guys! Go Bears!
One tradition we have in our program is we celebrate our seniors’ birthday with a cookie cake. Today we celebrated
@BrazilGarland
. He’s one of our hardest workers and a great leader. Not to mention an outstanding student. Happy Birthday Garland!!
MS/JV/V all rained out today so we had one big practice with the whole program. Thankful to the older guys who get it and took time to coach the younger guys. We ended practice with a groundball competition. Pictured are the winning MS/JV/V players and winning outfielder
This kid can really play! Good swing from the left side, plays good defense in the OF and can play 1B, good base runner, and can pitch. 2022 unsigned senior.
As we’re preparing for round 1 of the playoffs, we took a minute to celebrate a senior birthday.
@MatthewSheffi17
is a great teammate, always good for a joke, and is a joy to coach! Happy Birthday Matthew!
Really proud of these 2 guys and the seasons they had, but I’m also disappointed that
@LukeBabb3
and
@blainejennings6
didn’t get the recognition they deserved for the seasons they had too. All four guys had great years and were good leaders for us.
Really appreciate Leo Mazzone stopping by today and sharing some thoughts, stories, and wisdom with our guys. We enjoyed it! 2 days until opening day! Go Bears!
I had a great time with my guys this weekend. This was a fun event and we got better this week by playing really good teams. Hopefully it’ll help us down the road. One game this upcoming week then we head to spring break
Japan left their dressing room spotless and with a 'Thank You' note in Russian after their heartbreaking loss to Belgium. The Blue Samurai are the best.
via
@ground_guru
I always get excited for middle school evals. We had a good looking group of kids show up. Looking forward to seeing how this group develops over the next few years.
So thankful to get back on the field with this group. We have a lot to work on before February, but we have some good things to build off of too. Thanks to everyone who came out to watch 3 nights of baseball.
Unfortunately had to cancel my trip to Dallas for
@ABCA1945
convention. I have a room at the Gaylord Hotel for tomorrow night for anyone who’s going and wants it. No charge! Just DM me.
Really proud of my Calc BC group! A lot of our kids earned college math credit and won’t have to take as much math in college. Our pass rate was higher than the state and global avg. Even more impressive is there were a lot of student athletes in my group 🤓
@NHSJagAthletics
Congrats Bodie!
@UAB_Baseball
has a strong reputation for developing high character young men—on and off the field. I truly believe the best is yet to come for you.
#WinAsOne
Bump had a good week against some pretty tough pitchers. I’ve really enjoyed coaching him this summer. He’s a great teammate and a high energy player—the type of kid you want on your ball club for sure.
I’m late on my tweet but two days ago we celebrated our last senior’s birthday. We are celebrating it early, but I wanted to make sure we were able to do it. So thankful for this kid. Zeb is a great teammate and will be missed next year. Happy (early) Birthday Zeb!
After a rough first day, Team White led by Paul Reid and Jon Woodard bounced back winning basketball and tug of war. All four teams are in contention to win it all. Can’t wait for day 3.
Brady has a really solid left handed swing with pull side power but can still spray to left field. He’s got good plate discipline for a high school kid leading us in fewest strike outs the last two years. Surprisingly ok speed for his size and can play multiple positions.
Brady McAbee (‘23, AL) ropes a 2B to the track to tie the game in the 5th. Serious LH pull-side juice, easily scores 2. Clutch situational hitting.
#WWBA
@PG_Uncommitted
@PG_DeepSouth
This isn’t just a HS issue. One of my guys went JUCO out of high school, was a JUCO all-American, 2-year starter & was going to fulfill his dream of playing D-1. Now he’s scrambling to find a place to play. Lots of great things about the game now, but this kind of stuff isn’t it
The purge of incoming high school players to big D1s is starting. 6-7 weeks out from school starting and kids are being told they no longer have a spot. Something was going to have to give and here is our answer.
I actually learned a lot about coaching, how to run a successful program, and how to work with kids from Coach Dobbs. Anyone who thinks you can only learn from a coach within your sport is missing out on great perspectives from other coaches.
I talked about this type of thing today with my guys. The only question that is going to matter at the end of the day is “how do you help the team win?”