CHAMPIONSHIP HISTORY

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Hilliard Davidson Baseball Championship History

(Prior to the 1997/1998 School year we were known as Hil-

liard High School)

BASEBALL FRANKLIN COUNTY: ’37 ’45 ’48 MID – 6: ’54 MID – 8: ’57 ’65 ’71 ’72 O.C.C.: ’76 ’78 ’79 ’81 ’92 ’95 ’98 ’04 ’07 ’08

DISTRICT: ’62 ’85 ’89 ’95 ’96 ’97 ’04

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BASEBALL 2014

HILLIARD

Every day is a new opportunity. You can build on yesterday’s success or put its failures behind and

start over again. That’s the way life is, with a new

game every day, and that’s the way baseball is.

Bob Feller

COACHING STAFF

Coach Backstrom is a graduate of Hilliard Davidson

High School, where he played football, basketball,

and baseball and is a member of Davidson's Athletic

Hall of Fame. In baseball, he was a member of teams

that won 2 league titles outright, a district runner-up,

district championship, and Regional Runner-up. He continued his

baseball career at Ohio University where he pitched and played

first base earning 3 Varsity letters. He is currently finishing up his

degree in Middle Childhood Education at The Ohio State Univer-

sity. He has coached Varsity Football for the past 4 years and a 15

year old summer baseball team. He will continue in that role this

summer.

Justin Swallie is currently in his 9th year teaching

Social Studies at Hilliard Weaver Middle School, and

is in his 9th season coaching high school baseball in

Hilliard. He spent his first 4 years with the freshman

program at Hilliard Davidson High School. He

moved over to coach at Hilliard Bradley High School for two years

and worked with the Varsity program. He is currently in his 3rd

year at Davidson working with the Varsity baseball team. He has

spent the last 2 seasons assisting legendary coach Jim Dougherty,

and begins his 1st season as head coach. He also coaches 7th

grade football at Weaver Middle School. He is a graduate of Hil-

liard Darby High School and Otterbein University. He currently

lives in Powell and has a 5 year old son named Max.

Justin Swallie - Varsity Head Coach

Tyler Backstrom–Varsity Asst. Coach

Dave Swallie is a 7th

grade social studies

teacher at Weaver Middle School. This is his 26th year

of teaching and coaching in Hilliard. He has spent

the last 16 years as a varsity assistant at Hilliard Darby

High School. He also coaches 7th grade football at

Weaver Middle School. Dave is a graduate of The

Ohio State University and Marygrove College. He

lives in Hilliard with his wife Julie and has two sons,

Justin and Eric. He also has a grandson Max. Dave is excited to

be part of the Davidson Wildcat Baseball program.

Dave Swallie -Varsity Asst. Coach

SENIORS 2014

LUKE SMITH

Jersey Number: 9

Position: Pitcher, First Base

School Activities/Awards: National Honor

Society, Renaissance

College: Ashland University, (Major: Crimi-

nal Justice) Career: FBI Agent

Favorite Baseball Memory: Throwing No

Hitter Freshman year.

Quote: “ It’s not about the size of the dog

in the fight, but about the size of fight in the

dog.”

Jersey Number: 7 Position: Short Stop

Athletic Awards: Baseball-Varsity Letter;

Football-All Conference First Team, First

Team All District, Honorable Mention All-

Ohio, Member of All-Metro Team, Member

of This Week News Super 25

School Activities/Awards: Honor Roll

(grades 9-12)

College: John Carroll University (Major: Busi-

ness)

Favorite Baseball Memory: Going to Ripken

Experience

Quote: “Hard work beats talent when tal-

ent doesn’t work hard.”

NICK STULL

SENIORS 2014

Jersey Number: 6

Position: Catcher

Athletic Awards: Baseball-Varsity Letter,

Special Mention OCC, Captain; Football-2

Year Varsity Letter, Sportsmanship Award

School Activities/Awards: Academic Letter

College: Capital University (Major: Ac-

counting) Career: Accounting/Finance

Favorite Baseball Memory” Beating Central

Crossing in 2013 Playoffs.

Quote: “Hard work beats talent when tal-

ent doesn’t work hard.”

Jersey Number: 5

Position: Third Base

Varsity Sports: Football

Athletic Awards: Football-Two Time First

Team All OCC, Two Time First Team All-

District, All-Metro Honorable Mention, First

(Junior) and Second (Senior)Team All-Metro,

All-State Honorable Mention (Junior), Sec-

ond Team All-State (Senior)

College: Capital University

Favorite Baseball Memory: No hitter

NICK ISKE

JARED JOHNS

JB MILES

Jersey Number: 3

Position: Infield

Athletic Awards: Baseball-Varsity Letter

College: Capital University (Major-Business)

Favorite Baseball Memory– Beating Nick Iske

as 9 year olds.

Quote: "Curls for the girls."

COACHING STAFF

Coach Bauer enters his 9th

year in the Davidson base-

ball program, and fourth as the Asst. Freshman Coach. He has

been a teacher in the business department at Davidson for 13

years and has also served as an asst. in the basketball program.

Coach Bauer earned his degree from Bowling Green

State University in 2001 and Master’s degree from

Marygrove College in 2006. He is a 1996 graduate of

Hilliard High School, where he played baseball under

Coach Dougherty and also played basketball. Brett

resides in Plain City with his wife Sarah, and two sons

Garrett (6) and Jake (4).

This is Coach

Doug Biddinger’s

22nd season as an assistant coach for the Hilliard

Davidson baseball team. He teaches AP US History,

American History Through Film, and Government in

the Social Studies Department at Davidson, and

with baseball has served as a JV assistant, freshman

assistant, freshman head coach, and for the past

13 seasons as JV head coach. He is an alumnus of Ohio State

University, with a Bachelor’s Degree in Secondary Social Studies

Education and a Masters in Sports and Exercise Manage-

ment. He resides in Hilliard with wife Judy, and sons Ben and

Coach Jeremey Scally

enters his 7th year in

the Davidson baseball program, and 5th as the

Head Freshman Coach. Jeremey is a 2000 gradu-

ate of (Sandusky) Perkins High School where he

played football, wrestling and baseball. He is a 2005

graduate of The Ohio State University where he

earned his B.A. in English. In 2007 he received his

postgraduate degree from Ashland University, He has been a

teacher in the English Department for 6 years and also coaches

Varsity football at Davidson. Coach Scally and his wife Kasie, also

a teacher in Hilliard, currently reside in Dublin.

Brett Bauer -Freshman Coach

Doug Biddinger –JV Coach

Jeremey Scally –Freshman Coach

VARSITY

Row One: JB Miles, Luke Smith, Nick Stull, Jared Johns, Nick Iske, Robbie

Gilliland, Row Two: Travis Brown, Blake Eckert, Clayton Steele, Patrick Lav-

elle, Bobby Lively, Charlie Tighe, Reed Harster, Row Three: Coach Bid-

dinger, Coach Backstrom, Brent Thomas, Nathan Ellis, Tristan Free-

man, Coach D. Swallie, Coach J. Swallie.

SENIORS 2014

Jersey Number: 28

Position: Pitcher, 1B, Outfield

Other Varsity Sports: Bowling

College: Ohio University (Major: Undecided)

Favorite Baseball Memory: Meeting Cal Rip-

ken Jr.

Quote: “If you’re not first, you’re last”

TRAVIS BROWN

ROBBIE GILLILAND

REED HARSTER

Jersey Number: 1

Position: Center Field, Outfield

Baseball Awards: Varsity Letter Winner

School Activities: Academic Scholar, Hilliard Youth

Council (7 years), Ski Club,

College: Kent State University( Major: Business Manage-

ment) Career: Run a marketing firm/business

Favorite Baseball Memory: Chip Hollingsworth

#Incrediball

Quote: “The apple doesn’t fall far from the tree.”

Jersey Number: 16

Position: Pitcher, Outfield

Other Varsity Sports: Football

College: Undecided

Favorite Baseball Memory: Playing with Ja-

red Johns sophomore year and losing only

one game.

MIDDLE SCHOOL ROSTER

Coach Klie currently teaches

math at Weaver Middle

School. This is his fourth year at Weaver Middle School. Before that he was a tutor

at Davidson for one year. This is his 6th year as the 8th grade baseball coach. He

attended both Ohio University and Capital University before getting his degree.

Coach Klie is also a Hilliard Davidson graduate in the class of 2002.

Coach Miller is in his 8th year

coaching baseball in Hil-

liard. He was a Davidson graduate in 2002 and played both basketball and

baseball in high school. He graduated from Ohio University in 2006 earning a

bachelor’s degree in education and his masters in 2011 from MaryGrove College.

This is his seventh year teaching ; currently teaching World Studies and Sociology

at Davidson. He lives in Hilliard and has a wife, Erika, and 1 year old son, Gavin.

Brett Miller –Middle School Coach

John Klie –Middle School Coach

Coach Stephens

is a full-time substi-

tute teacher for Hilliard City Schools. He graduated with a B.A. in Business from

Cedarville University and a Masters in Ministry from Grace Seminary. Coach

Stephens has coached baseball at Bradley HS, Memorial MS, and now at Weaver.

He lives in the Hilliard City Schools district with his wife Sandy, who teaches at

Washington Elementary.

Coach Stephens —Middle School Coach

JUNIOR VARSITY

Row 1: Ryan Tuchow, Ben Biddinger, Justin Woodford, Colton Miles, Jacob

Lacher, Alex Vela, Ricky Hildebrand, , Row 2: Patrick Keck, Andy Munson,

Zachary Weethee, Andrew Kozman, Ryan Yoder, Aaron Kinnear, Row 3: Dre

Rodriguez, , Drew Kaufmann, Brant Curnutte, Zachary Uphouse, Jacob Brown,

FRESHMAN

Row One: Nick Commings, Landon Price, Seth Parker, Alex Peterson, Tim

Domer, Jeremy Good, Shawn Parker Row Two: Nick Summers, Sam Mon-

nin, Jeremy Kenny, Kyle Porter , Mitch Knoth Row Three: Coach Bauer, Kyle

Neimeister, Grant Frisky, Daniel Downs, Pete Jarrett, Jake Shier, Coach

Scally

8TH GRADE

Row One: Keegan Wolfinger, Ryan Stockamp, Nathan Mix, Jackon Jacobs,

Luke Peterson Row Two: Johnathan Robinson, Brett Kodger, Nathan Ex-

terovich, Brendon Yoder, Chano Rodriguez, Bryce Stein Row Three: Jordan

Galindo, Matthew Kinnear, Jordan Hall, Andrew Tighe, Carson Curnette,

Jon Stull, Coach Klie

Row One: Grant Cowen, Nicholas Sauvey, Drew Yoder, Nate Porter, Ja-

son Harris, Emmitt Hoying Row Two: Christian Sweet, Nathaniel DeWeese,

Carson Felicetty, David May, Brady Ingland Row Three: Coach Miller,

Chase Miles, Joel Goodrich, Christian Gillilan, Ethan Royer, Austin Conrad

Coach Stevens

7TH GRADE