Notre Dame Preparatory

2007 Boys Varsity Baseball

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Pontiac Notre Dame Prep dropped a 1-0 decision to Bloomfield Hills Andover in District Semifinal action at Notre Dame Prep. (June 2, 2007)

Pontiac Notre Dame Prep 10, Waterford Our Lady of the Lakes 2: Matt Simegel went 2-for-4 with a home run and four RBIs, and Chris Maltese went 2-for-4 with a double, triple and three RBIs for Notre Dame (7-25). (Freep, May 30, 2007)

Pontiac Notre Dame Prep 7, Utica Ford II 3 — At Pontiac, Chris Maltese doubled and had two RBI and Matt Pierce was the winning pitcher for Notre Dame Prep (6-25). (Oakland Press, May 25, 2007)

Pontiac Notre Dame Prep 4-6, Bay City Central 3-8 — At Pontiac, Matt Peirce’s single in the bottom of the eighth inning won the first game for Notre Dame Prep (5-25). Joe Petrella pitched a complete game to earn the victory in the opener, and Matt Smigiel and Kevin Michelcavage each drove in runs for the Irish in the nightcap. (Oakland Press, May 24, 2007)

Birmingham Brother Rice 11, 11, Pontiac Notre Dame Prep 0, 0 - (CHSL, May 16, 2007)

Novi Detroit Catholic Central 7-7; Pontiac Notre Dame Prep 1-3 — At Pontiac, Billy Hardin notched a win in the first game while striking out five Irish batters and hit a double in the second game, both wins for Catholic Central (9-17 CIL). (Oakland Press, May 15, 2007)

Pontiac Notre Dame Prep. 3-0, Detroit U of D Jesuit 2-2 — At Pontiac, Tom Vacketta had a double and an RBI, and Joe Veltri added an RBI helping Notre Dame Prep. win in nine innings in the first game. In the second game, Matt Pierce took the loss throwing seven innings while not allowing an earned run for Notre Dame Prep. (Oakland Press, May 13, 2007) Box Scores

More NDP vs St. Mary's from the Observer-Eccentric (May 14, 2007)

Orchard Lake St. Mary’s 6-13, Pontiac Notre Dame Prep 1-4 — At Orchard Lake, Brandon Kozlowski had a double and an RBI, Brooks Tuyn and Korey Hall each had a pair of RBI, and Evan Morris got the win for St. Mary’s in the first game. In the second game, Brandon Kozlowski had a home run and three RBI, Evan Morris and Korey Hall each had a triple and a pair of RBI, Kris Morris had a double and two RBI and Andy Harris got the win for St. Mary’s (17-8, 14-6), striking out seven over six innings. (Oakland Press, May 11, 2007)

Divine Child 15-15, Notre Dame Prep 0-0 (4 inn.): DC, Stephen Claypool 5-7 (6 RBIs, 3-run home run), Aaron Cieslak 3-5 (4 RBIs), Patrick Biondi 3-5 (4 runs) (Detroit News, May 8, 2007)

Notre Dame Prep 2-6, De LaSalle 6-5 (May 7, 2007)

De LaSalle 9-7, Pontiac Notre Dame Prep 3-5 - (Macomb Daily, May 6, 2007)

NDP went 1-2 in the Grosse Pointe South tournament on April 28, 2007. The Irish fell to Portage Northern (8-0), and Grosse Pointe South (6-4) before defeating Romeo (9-8).

The Fighting Irish on April 21, 2007 dropped both ends of a doubleheader at Birmingham Brother Rice, 11-1 and 5-2.

Young Irish face tough challenge in the Central (C & G Newspapers, April 19, 2007)

U-D Jesuit 5-3, Pontiac Notre Dame Prep 3-2: UD , Jack Monarch 9 strikeouts, Jordan Morgan 3 RBIs, Daniel Fields 2-for-2 (RBI) (Detroit News, April 18, 2007)

Orchard Lake St. Mary's swept Pontiac Notre Dame, 16-9 and 4-3, Sunday. In Game 1, Ryan Decker batted 3-for-4 with a double and a homer for seven RBIs for St. Mary's. In Game 2, Decker's RBI double in the top of the seventh was the winner for St. Mary's (8-2). (Freep, April 16, 2007)

The Irish closed out the Macomb County Spring Break Classic with a 7-5 loss to Madison Heights Lamphere. (April 13, 2007)

Romeo 4, Notre Dame Prep 3:       In game one on Thursday, April 12, starting pitcher Brett Shankin tossed a complete game two-hitter and Ploetz drove in the game winner with a single in the seventh.
       Adam Rashid started the seventh with a bunt single. Garrett Henige was trying to move the runner over with a sacrifice bunt but wound up with an infield single when no one from Prep could field the ball. Jeremy Ravezzani singled home a run to tie the game at 3-3 and Ploetz singled up the middle for the winning run.
       Shankin allowed three earned runs on two hits, walked four and struck out 10.
       "Brett had some control issues early on, but was very dominating after he settled in," Romeo Coach T.J. DeLamielleure said.
       Delmotte led the Romeo offense with three hits in three at bats including a double and scored a run. Ravezzani went 2-for-4 with a run scored; Austin Langley was 1-for-2 including a squeeze bunt RBI in the fifth and Armstrong and Tines had one hit each.
       "We had a rough start to this one, but we did a very nice job of chipping away and staying in the ball game," said DeLamielleure. (Romeo Observer, April 18, 2007)

NDP shutout Grand Rapids Creston 1-0 to earn their first victory of the season at the Macomb County Spring Break Classic. (April 11, 2007)

Warren Mott defeated NDP 9-4 at the Macomb County Spring Break Classic in St. Clair Shores. (Macomb Daily, April 11, 2007)

Irish compete in Spring Break Classic (Macomb Daily, April 10, 2007)

NDP dropped two games to Dearborn Divine Child (10-0, 5-0) on March 31, 2007 to fall to 0-3 on the season.

Irish fall in season opener (Oakland Press, March 31, 2007)

Where are they now?

Jeff Bultinck (06) - Macomb Community College

Tony Fazi (06) - Oakland University

Keith Kampe (05) - University of Cincinnati

Scott Lockhart (1998) - Hillsdale College