Our First Newsletter of 2015-2016 Season!!!

Greetings esteemed alumni, colleagues, students and baseball fans! It’s

our pleasure to welcome you to another season of the official Pasco

Baseball Newsletter. Continuing on the previous year’s newsletters, we

are offering this small gesture to increase the connection between the

community and PHS to the Pasco Baseball Program. We will continue to

offer articles from the coaching staff, articles about players in the

program and all the other things that are happening in the program.

We will be offering four issues (Nov/Dec, Jan/Feb, Mar/Apr, and

May/June). There are a lot of great things this year to build the program

so hopefully you can make it out to some games as well as events during

the spring and summer season.

Nov/Dec Issue

Volume 3,

Issue 1

Coach Hockaday enters his 6th year

as varsity baseball coach at Pasco

High. As a graduate of Pasco High

School in 2001, Coach Hockaday

played four years in the baseball

program, as well as, playing

football and being a part of two

state championship teams in 1998

and 2001. When Coach Hockaday

isn’t coaching, he is always staying

active going hunting, fishing,

building stuff, collecting sports

cards and beating Coach Emerson

at everything including golf.

Hockaday is also an English

teacher at Pasco High School

where he has been teaching nine

years. He is currently a 9th

Advanced and World Literature

teacher.

As far as his goals for the 2016

season, Hockaday says, “I want my

guys to become more mentally

tough and not let so many games

get away from us. We will have a

young team with a lot of talent so

mentally we have to execute and

make the routine plays.”

Meet Varsity Head Coach Tyler Hockaday

Inside this issue:

Meet Coach Hockaday 1

Meet the Players 2

2016 Schedule 2

Summer Baseball 3

Winter Hitting 3

FungoMan 4

Coach Hockaday

Coach Hockaday Fun Facts

Favorite Food: Lasagna

Favorite Baseball Team: Chicago Cubs

Favorite Football Team: Green Bay

Packers

Favorite Hobby: Collecting sports cards

(I’m a huge Brett Favre fan and have

close to 1,000 cards of his)

Favorite Book: “Heads Up Baseball” by

Ken Ravizza and “So What, Next Pitch”

by Brian Cain

Favorite Movie: “A Christmas Story”

Favorite TV Show: “Macgyver” (I may

have all the seasons on DVD)

Favorite Musical Artist: Foo Fighters

Favorite Place to Visit: Nike Employee

Store in Beaverton, OR

Celebrity Look-a-like: Students say

Justin Timberlake; however, Mr. Emerson

says Tom Hardy.

Motto for the 2016 Season

TUES 4/12 vs. Kamiakin (DH) 4pm

FRI 4/15 @ Southridge (DH) 4pm

TUES 4/19 vs. Kennewick (DH) 4pm

FRI 4/22 @ Hanford (DH) 4pm

TUES 4/26 vs. Walla Walla (DH) 4pm

FRI 4/29 @ Chiawana (1gm) 4pm

SAT 4/30 @ Chiawana (1gm) 7pm

@ GESA Stadium

2016 Pasco High Baseball Varsity Schedule

WED 3/16 vs. University HS (DH) 2pm @GESA Stadium

FRI 3/18 vs. Post Falls (1gm) 2pm

SAT 3/19 vs. Capital (1gm) 3pm

THUR 3/22 vs. Post Falls (1gm) 6pm

SAT 3/26 @ West Valley Spokane

(1gm) 12pm

FRI 4/1 vs. Richland (DH) 4pm

Meet the Players: Dominick Monville Name: Dominick Monville

Year: Senior

Position: Outfield, Pitcher, 1st Base

Parents: Paul and Teresa Monville

Plans after High School:

“My goals after high school are

playing college baseball for a

university or junior college and

getting my degree in Sports

Journalism.”

Goals for this Season:

1. Lower error percentage as a

team.

2. Have over 35 quality at bats

3. Have a batting average over

.330

Coach’s Comment:

“The coaching staff expects great things from Dominick this year. He will

be transitioning from 3rd

baseman to 1st baseman where he originally

played as a freshman. He also had a great summer baseball season in

terms of hitting and pitching which should benefit him. He also has been

working hard in the weight room in the off-season which will certainly pay

off.”

-Coach Hockaday

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If you are planning on participating in baseball for the upcoming season

(and are not in a winter sport) you are encouraged to come into the

weight room afterschool Monday-Friday 3-5pm.

During the months between November and February, there will

be open gym. There will be hitting and fielding work going on in the

racquetball courts as well as the AC gym. Get in there and get better

before the season starts.

Winter Baseball Training Starts Nov. 16th

Winter Hitting in Inflatable Batting Cages

Winter hitting will begin in a couple of weeks for players that are interested in playing in the spring. Last year, the baseball program purchased a blow up cage which can be placed anywhere for hitting to be conducted inside during the winter months. See Coach Hockaday for a hitting calendar.

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Pasco Sun Devils Summer Baseball Team

Pasco Sun Devils summer baseball program is looking forward

to the upcoming 2016 summer season. The program is looking

to build off the success both the Single A and Double A teams

had. The Double A squad (grades 10-11) went 24-13 during the

summer just missing out on the post-season by one game.

While the single A (grades 8-9) made it to the state tournament.

We would like to keep the success going next summer to help

build both Chiawana and Pasco High School Baseball

programs. It is also an extra forty games player’s play in the

summer which is double the school ball season. Baseball

players need to consider playing since this is the way you will

get better for the next summer. If there are any questions

please, contact Coach Hockaday.

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The FungoMan Has Come to the PHS Baseball Program

“FungoMan is an automated baseball practice machine that is easy to handle, and is operated

by an inventive programmable software system. FungoMan is not just another pitching

machine It is an instant field practice on wheels! This portable and efficient practice machine

holds 300 baseballs and perfectly places those balls anywhere on a baseball field. This

machine precisely controls speed, spin, position, and elevation of baseballs from 5 to 100

MPH. FungoMan has an automatic rotating feature that produces incredibly accurate and fast

baseball placement. This translates to more quality practice for players, and more quality

instruction time for coaches” –FungoMan Website

Coach Comment:

“This is the best piece of equipment on the market for

becoming better at the sport of baseball. This machine

will no doubt will help our players on the defensive

side of baseball. It will also give our guys an

opportunity to see ground balls in the winter time

inside the gym to give us a head start on the

competition. Also, in the spring we will be able to

focus our practice more and guys can get hundreds of

reps within a half an hour period. It will be a great

asset to the program and our players.

-Head Coach Tyler Hockaday

Orange/Grapefruit Fundraiser Going On

BACK BY POPULAR DEMAND!!!! The Pasco High

Baseball team is once again selling 20lb boxes of

oranges and grapefruit. This is a healthy fundraiser

that helps support the Pasco High Baseball team.

Each of the 20lb boxes are $30 dollars. Currently,

oranges are going for $1.99 or more at local grocery

stores, while grapefruit is not far behind. Would you

like a little bit of both? Great, we can do half and half

boxes as well. Is 20lbs too much for you? Awesome,

we can do half boxes for $15. Depending on the size,

each 20lb box holds 44 to 48 oranges. While a 20lb

box of grapefruit holds 20- 28 grapefruit. You can

order yours today from any baseball player or by

emailing Coach Hockaday at thockaday@psd1.org.

Thank you for the support.

Follow Pasco Baseball on Twitter

Follow all things Pasco Baseball at:

www.pascobulldogbaseball.com

You can now follow Pasco Bulldog Baseball on twitter @Pasco_Baseball.

Here you can stay up to date with all things Pasco Bulldog Baseball.

People will be able to get up to date scores as games are going on,

mental conditioning tweets from some of the best coaches in baseball, up

to date information on things going on in the program and more.

In the Next Jan/Feb Issue:

Updates on the upcoming

season

Updates on the Pasco Sun

Devils summer team

New meet the players

sections

New Meet the Coaching Staff

And much more!!!