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Senior LHP Ryan Ashooh

Clifton, VA - The Centreville High School baseball program is finishing its offseason preparations with the 2010 season just around the corner this month.

The Wildcats, who finished 10-13 last year, falling to Lake Braddock in the Northern Region quarterfinals after qualifying for regionals for the first time since 2003, enter the campaign seeking their first winning season in seven years and to compete for their first-ever Concorde District championship.

Centreville begins practice on Monday, February 22 and will hold a preseason banquet at the Hyatt Fair Lakes on Monday, March 8. The Wildcats will open their season by hosting Leesburg Christian Academy at 6:30 p.m. on Tuesday, March 16, then head south to Chesapeake, Virginia, to play Greenbriar Christian Academy on Friday, March 19 and Cape Henry Collegiate on Saturday, March 20.

The Wildcats will then host Battlefield on Thursday, March 25, before traveling to Florida to compete in the Sarasota Baseball Classic from March 29-April 1. Centreville will then return home to host Loudoun Valley on Wednesday, April 7 before opening its district schedule with a home date against defending champion Westfield on Tuesday, April 13.

Please stay tuned to our web site for updates and game reports throughout the season.

Below are photos of Chris Campbell, Connor Bach and Ryan Ashooh along with head coach Morgan Spencer and members of their families at a ceremony at Centreville on the day of the national signing day for NCAA Division I athletes. Campbell has signed with Mount Saint Mary’s University in Emmittsburg, MD, Bach has signed with the Virginia Military Institute in Lexington and Ashooh has signed with the University of Virginia in Charlottesville.

Chris Campbell with parents Becky and Mike, brother Hunter and Coach Spencer.

Connor Bach with mother, Kathleen, his three brothers and Coach Spencer at Centreville's signing day ceremony.

Ryan Ashooh with his mother, Ellen, and Coach Spencer.

Senior 1B Cam Walter

Clifton, VA - Centreville senior first baseman Cam Walter committed last month to play on a full football scholarship at the Virginia Military Institute in Lexington, the Wildcats football and baseball programs are proud to announce.

The 6-foot-4, 218-pound Walter completed 118-of-218 passes for 1,660 yards and seven touchdowns and ran for six more scores in earning second-team all-Concorde District honors for a Wildcats team that went 3-7 under head coach Gerry Pannoni last fall. A tw0-year starter under center, the senior battled through several injuries - including torn labrums in both shoulders - over the past two years to finish with over 3,000 passing yards.

Walter will enter his fourth varsity season this spring under head baseball coach Morgan Spencer and is expected to be one of the area’s top defensive first basemen and a threat in the middle of the Wildcats’ lineup after missing the last 17 games of the 2009 season when forced to the sideline following a surgery on his right shoulder.

Ryan Ashooh

Connor Bach

Chris Campbell

Clifton, VA - Three Centreville seniors signed their national letters of intent this month to play on scholarship at Division I schools, the baseball program is proud to announce.

Left-handed pitchers Ryan Ashooh and Connor Bach and shortstop/right-handed pitcher Chris Campbell each made their college decisions official with the signing, Ashooh with the University of Virginia in Charlottesville, Bach with the Virginia Military Institute in Lexington and Campbell with Mount St. Mary’s University in Emmitsburg, MD.

Ashooh, who is entering his fourth varsity season this spring, was the co-Pitcher of the Year in the Concorde District and a first-team all-Northern Region selection as a junior, throwing a shutout in a 1-0 win at top seed McLean in the first round of the Northern Region tournament. Bach, who also plays in the outfield and at first base, was a second-team all-district selection, and Campbell earned his second all-district honor as the Wildcats went 10-13 and advanced to the regional tournament for the first time since 2003.

The three are joined by two other seniors, second baseman Andy Viands (Christopher Newport University) and right-handed pitcher J.T. Hampel (University of Mary Washington), who have committed to play at Division III schools.

All five players are part of a core group of players that will enter their third season together on Centreville’s varsity team this spring.