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.

April 20th

The Carthage Redmen will be playing Concordia of Wisconsin in a single game today. The game is a non-conference game but is very important to win. Since Concordia is within our regional it would help the Redmen if they win to get an at large bid into the regionals and keep their chances alive to make it to the world series. So LETS GO REDMEN!

April 17th and 18th

On the 17th Carthage college traveled to Naperville, Il. to play North Central College in a double header. Carthage lost a heart breaker in the last inning due to some misfortunate calls by the umpires. The final score of the game was 14-13. The second game was called due to not enough light in the 7th inning Carthage was winning 10-7 before the game was cancelled. The game was to be finished Sunday April 18th at Carthage College. When the games starts Sunday Carthage was able to win the delayed game by the final score of 11-7. However, were unable to win the second game falling to North Central but the score of 7-4 making Carthages conference record fall to 7-5 overall.

April 14

Today the Carthage Redmen finished their three game series against Wheaton College. The Redmen were able to win the first game by the score of 11-1. However, they were unable to win the second game by the score of 14-5. Meaning the Carthage Redmen are now 6-3 overall in the conference standings.

The start of Carthage baseball to present day.

History

Carthage College baseball was only the second team in organized baseball, and also the only collegiate team ever to play and win four games in one day. The Redmen were able to accomplish this feet on May 18 1970 when they were able to take two games Illinois Wesleyan University by the scores of 12-3 and 6-5, and by taking two more games from North Park College by the scores of 5-0 and 2-0. Since this sweep Carthage had played more quadruple headers but were never able to sweep all four games from their opponents again. All in all its a great part of Carthage baseball history and there will be plenty of more history being made in the future.

Carthage Colleges school baseball records

If you click the link below you can see the school records that are set and held by players that have played at Carthage College.

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Crazy Bat Skills

Example of what kind of skills major league baseball players have, and how dedicated they are to their sport.

Carthage Baseball Taking Infield

This video is showing a Carthage Redmen baseball game from the 2008 regional. The pitcher on the mound is one of my good friends Jacob Husing. Jacob Husing set many records for Carthage College in his four year career here. Carthage ended up winning this game because of excellent pitching from Husing.

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April 11th

Today Carthage finish their three game series against Illinois Wesleyan winning the game by the ten run rule. The final score of the game was 16-6. The game ended with Will Hodges hitting a two run game winning home run in the 7th inning to solidify the win for Carthage. The next game Carthage will play will be a double header Wednesday April 14 against Wheaton to finish the three game set between the two.

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April 10th

Today the Redmen played Illinois Wesleyan in a double header at home. The Redmen split the double header losing the first game and winning the second game with the final score of 12-4. The Carthage Redmen baseball team will finish their three game series against Illinois Wesleyan tomorrow starting at 12 p.m.

April 7th

Yesturday afternoon the Carthage Redmen played Wheaton College in Schaumburg, Ill. @ Alexian Field. The Redmen fell to Wheaton College causing them to lose their first conference game this season. The Redmen will finish their three game series against Wheaton at home with a double header on April 14th. Carthages record drops to 11-7 overall and 3-1 in conference.

April 3rd

Today the Carthage Redmen played Elmhurst in the final game of the three game series. The Redmen came out on top with a victory over the blue jays with the final score of 8-7. The Redmens record has now improved to 11-6 overall and a conference record of 3-0.

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April 2nd

Today carthage baseball went to Elmhurst Illinois to play two games against Elmhurst College. The Carthage Redmen took both games from Elmhurst scoring a combined total of 42 runs. The first game was 17-6 and the second game was 25-16. The record for the Redmen as of now is 10-6 and 2-0 in conference. Tomorrow the Redmen play Elmhurst in the third and final game of the series at home.

Map of Carthage

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My map shows where the baseball field is on Carthage's campus. It also shows where the hitting cages are where the baseball team practices a lot indoors. I also have shown the softball field that is located on campus. The house i lived in last year is shown and the route in which i took to get to the field. Nonetheless, i have shown the Pike River that destroys or baseball teams budget.

March 23rd

Today March 23 the Carthage baseball team will be traveling to Lisle Illinois for a single game against Benedictine University at 4:00 pm. The game is a non conference game but is an in regional game. The Carthage baseball team is ranked 9th in the nation thus far.

March 20th-21st

This weekend the Carthage Baseball team took a trip to Minnesotan to play three games in the Metradome. The first game was against the #1 team in the nation st. Thomas which they lost 2-1 in extra innings. The following two games Carthage swept a double header against st. johns. the first game was a 15-1 win and the second game was a 9-7 win. All in all the team played good baseball against two solid teams.

First Week of Baseball

Our trip to Florida was a some what successful trip. We ended up going 5-3 with one of our games being rained out. However, at the beginning of the trip we ran into some very competitive teams that had already played multiple games when it was just the beginning of our season. Therefore, we were a little rusty playing outside in the sun after being kept indoors in the tarc for five months. Although the beginning was a little rusty, we ended out trip by taking two games from the number three ranked team in the nation by the scores of 16-3 and 10-4. all in all the trip was a great learning experience four our team and we were able to come together as a team at the end allowing us to go into our next three games in Minnesota on a role and feeling good about ourselves. Our next three games are against all Minnesota teams one of which is rated #1 in the national for D3 baseball. So we are pretty excited about this weekends challenge and are hoping to come out with three victory's.

Starting The 2010 Season

The Carthage College Baseball team is taking their spring baseball trip to Port Charlotte, Florida beginning March 5th and will be returning March 14. During our nine day stay in Port Charlotte we will be playing nine games. Our first two games will be March 6th one vs Heidelberg University and the second being against Ohio Wesleyan University. The rest of the games consist of playing another game against Ohio Wesleyan University, two against The College of Wooster, two against Muskingum University, one against Kean University, and one against Medaille College.