Weather permitting, BHS baseball opens March 27 at Hardin Northern
By Cort Reynolds
After a decade under the tutelage of Jason Campbell, the Ada High School varsity baseball team has a new head coach in 2023.
Successful and experienced mentor Toby Smith takes over as Bulldog mentor after fashioning a career record of 353-124 at West-Liberty Salem, Urbana and Bellefontaine.
The fiery Smith also serves as the head Ada varsity football coach, and was the Bulldog baseball assistant last spring.
The Bulldog baseball squad returns seven starters and 11 lettermen from last year's team that finished 6-14 overall and 1-7 in the Northwest Conference.
The 13-player roster features six seniors, no juniors, five sophomores and two freshmen.
Graduated are honorable mention All-NWC pitcher Kadin Phipps and first baseman Tyler Jameson.
"We are learning how not to lose games," said veteran coach Smith. "We want to play the game fundamentally well and give ourselves a chance to win. We have a lot of learning curves.”
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