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Eagles Baseball to open season at home Saturday
The 2012 spring baseball season gets underway this weekend as the Eagles host Cedar Valley at 1 p.m. Saturday.
The Eagles baseball team is looking to earn a trip to the regional tournament and beyond this season as the squad has high hopes in 2012.
“Our goal is to win a national championship. That is always what we want to do,” head coach Josh Stewart said. “There are certain thing that we have to do first to reach that goal, like winning a conference championship, making the regional tournament and winning the regional tournament. We like to set our goals as high as we can and then try to reach them.”
Fans should have a lot to look forward to from the Eagles this season as the team boasts one of the strongest hitting squads the school has ever seen.
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NTCC Eagles baseball, softball to offer live scoring online
Northeast Texas Community College Eagles softball and baseball fans will have a new way to keep up with their favorite team in 2012, as NTCC will be using the stat keeping software Gamechanger
to provide live scoring during all games.
This program will allow NTCC fans to keep up with all of the action, even if they can’t make it out to the ballpark. Gamechanger’s live play-by-play will allow parents to keep up with
their player’s performance even as they are at the plate, on the mound or in
the field.
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Former Eagle Cates Profiled in Baseball America
 Padres' Cates Ready To Embrace Challenge
By Brian Lester
FORT WAYNE, IND.—On the eve of his professional debut with the Fort Wayne TinCaps, Zach Cates wasn't nervous. He wasn't overwhelmed by the big moment on the horizon, the moment he has been waiting for since he first picked up a baseball as a child and threw it toward the plate.
No, this rainy Thursday evening in early April, Cates was relaxed inside the team clubhouse as he talked about his looming first game at Parkview Field.
"This is my chance. This is what I have worked for my entire career," Cates said. "God wouldn't put me in a position that I wasn't ready for. I have to trust in everything and go out and do what I have been taught. If I do that, I'll be all right."
Cates was just fine against South Bend on April 9. The 6-foot-3, 200-pound righthander didn't get credit for the 5-1 win over the Silver Hawks, but his performance was impressive. He worked 5 2⁄3 innings, giving up one run on two hits. He struck out nine, including the first five batters he faced, and walked three.
Not bad for a pitcher who wasn't drafted out of Conway (Ark.) High in 2008, and played two years at North East Texas CC before the Padres drafted him in the third round (91st overall) of the 2010 draft.
Cates could have collapsed with the weight of the expectations on his shoulders. He could have looked as if he didn't deserve the generous bonus the Padres dished out to seal the deal. The $765,000 he received is more than double Major League Baseball's slot recommendation of $380,700 for the No. 91 spot in the draft.
Instead, Cates embraced the pressure, welcomed it with open arms as if it was a friend he had not seen in years.
"I want to give them more than their money's worth," Cates said. "There are a lot of expectations when you go high in the draft, but no one expects more out of me than me. I like the pressure. It pushes me to work hard."
First-year Fort Wayne manager Shawn Wooten noticed the potential in Cates from the moment he saw him pitch at instructional league.
"I saw his competitiveness and he has great stuff. When you have that combination, you have something special," Wooten said. "He is going to go through with his lumps like every young guy and is still learning to pitch. He was lights out in his last two starts in spring training. I expect good things from him."
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Northeast Texas Community College offers intercollegiate athletic competition for both men and women in a variety of sports. Northeast is a member of the National Junior College Athletic Association (NJCAA) and the National Intercollegiate Rodeo Association (NIRA). NJCAA sports include men's baseball and women's fast pitch softball at the Division I level. Men's rodeo and women's rodeo participate in NIRA sanctioned events.
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