May 1st and 2nd

The Carthage Redmen traveled to Decator Illinois to play the University of Millikin. The red men were able to take two of the three games from the big blue. The first game the Redmen won 9-8. However, in the second game Millikin hit a walk off grand slam to win the game. The third game the Redmen were able to win by the score of twelve to two. The Redmen were able to solitify their spot in the conference tournament this past weekend. However, they are still competing for the the conference championship this weekend hoping to take three games from North Park while North Central loses three to Illinois Weslyan.

Cory Everts begins his sixth year as assistant coach in 2010. A native of Hortonville, Wis., Everts had a four-year baseball career at Carthage. He was named an American Baseball Coaches Association third-team All-American and first-team All-College Conference of Illinois and Wisconsin in 1992, first-team all-conference in 1991 and second-team All-CCIW in 1993. Everts is ranked second on the Carthage career wins list (26), third in earned run average (2.16), second in strikeouts (185), second in innings pitched (229.3) and second in shutouts (8). He set a Carthage season record in 1992 with five shutouts, and his 1.02 earned run average that year is the Redmen’s third-best. Everts was inducted into the Carthage Athletic Hall of Fame in 2001.

April 27th

The Carthage Redmen traveled to Fond Du Lac Wisconsin to play Marian University for a double header. The games started at 3 pm and 5:30 pm. The Redmen were able to take the first game by the score of 9-8 in the eighth inning which was an extra inning. The second game consisted of a dominating pitching performance by two Carthage Redmen pitchers. The starting pitcher was Bret McQuade who pitched a no hit shut out through five innings. The Brian Keiffer came into the game during the sixth inning and finished the seven inning game with the final score being 9-0 with both pitchers allowing no hits through all seven innings.

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Jarvis Brown

Coach Brown played five years of Major League Baseball first playing with the 1991 Major League Baseball Champions the Minnesota Twins. During the World Series Jarvis played in three of the games. After playing with the Minnesota Twins in 1991 Jarvis would go on to play with seven other professional teams before calling it quites in 1997 ending his career with the Milwaukee Brewers organization. Jarvis is a native of Kenosha Wisconsin where he graduate from St. Joseph High School and then attended Triton College before being drafted in the 1986 Major League Draft. Jarvis started coaching at Carthage in 2003 to 2006 and then from 2007 to 2009 he was the head coach at Wisconsin Parkside which then after leaving their he came back to Carthage as an assistant coach for the Carthage Redmens 2010 season.

April 24th - April 26

Carthage College overall record has improved to an overall 19-11 with a college conference overall record of 10-5. This past weekend the Carthage Redmen were able to take three games from Augustana college by the scores of 6-4, 9-8, and 6-0. The last game in which Eric Rohe pitched was able to shut down Augustana through all nine innings allowing just three hits and no runs. These last three games were very important to the Redmens chances to bring back the college conference title to Carthage. Therefore, after winning these last three games it still gives the redmen the chance to enter into the conference tournament which will keep the Redmen alive in chances to become the national champions. The Carthage Redmen have a double header on April 27th in Fond du Lac Wisconsin.

Augie Schmidt

During this years 2010 season Augie Schmidt was given the honor of winning his seventh hundred game of his coaching career. Augie was able to accomplish this when the Carthage Redmen won their first game of the season. At the beginning of the season Coach Schmidt's overall record was 699 and 274 with 5 ties. Overall coach Schmidt's overall average winning percentage was .715%. This makes Coach Schmidt the winningest coach in Carthage history and also the coach with the highest winning percentage. However, since he has coached the longest out of all the other Carthage Redmen baseball coaches he also holds the record of the coach with the most loses as head coach. Nonetheless, Augie while he was in college was able to win the golden spikes award as a junior and also be drafter number two overall in the MLB draft.