Week 8 Winner: Glynn Tschirhart
Get beat 16-1 and there's not much to say.
Alamo
Heights (San Antonio) baseball manager Glynn Tschirhart
simply told his team to blow it off.
Glynn Tschirhart, Alamo Heights
Photo by Lester Rosebrock
The
Mules (26-10-1) weren't stubborn, adhered to their coach's advice and
rolled to a 5-0 win over Tivy just a few hours after the beat-down to
advance to the Region IV-4A semifinal against Calallen on Friday night.
Sophomore
James
Nittoli fired a six-hitter to help Alamo Heights win the
best-of-three series, 2-1.
For keeping his kids
composed, Tschirhart was selected the San Antonio High Yield Coach of
the Week presented by Capital One Bank.
"I told them
to get something to eat and drink and kind of forget about it for a few
minutes," Tschirhart told the San Antonio Express-News. "Just kind of
take a breath. We knew we're a better baseball team than what we showed
in the first game. It was just a matter of getting our feet under us."
According to the newspaper, Jacob Malloy scored the
only run the Mules would need on a sacrifice fly from
Cameron
Mineo.
Colin
Vazquez added an RBI single in the second, making it 2-0.
Cole
Bailey drove in Vasquez with a run-scoring single and Nittoli
did the rest.
Nittoli told the Express-News that
Tivy used up all its hits in the opener when it lashed 16 of them and
took advantage of four Alamo Heights errors.
"I just
knew that we could play with them," Nittoli said. "They got all their
hits out of the way, but we didn't get ours
yet."
This is the fourth 20-plus win season in five
years for Tschirhart, who went 27-7 in his first campaign with the Mules
in 2009.
He's also guided the team to records of
25-7-1 and 23-13. He has 353 career wins.
