Hornell's Tenhouse Named NYCBL Coach of the Year

SYRACUSE, N.Y. – The New York Collegiate Baseball League announced today that Jake Tenhouse, manager of the Hornell Dodgers, has been named the 2008 NYCBL Coach of the Year.

Tenhouse’s Dodgers won the Western Division regular season title, amassed the best record and winning percentage in the NYCBL and advanced to the Western Division finals. Hornell finished the regular season with a 32-10 record and .762 winning percentage. The Dodgers’ 32 victories are the most by a Western Division team since the 2005 Hornell squad posted 34 triumphs in a 47-game season. The team’s divisional finals appearance was its’ first since 2005.

Tenhouse guided his club, featuring just three position-player substitutes, to a pair of seven-game winning streaks and a six-game winning streak over the course of the two-month regular season. The Dodgers held first place or were tied for first in the Western Division from June 12 through July 21. After falling a half-game behind Brockport on July 22, the Dodgers closed the regular season with seven-straight wins to finish five games ahead of the eventual league champions.

Hornell’s .762 winning percentage during the 42-game regular season was the highest in the NYCBL and the best among 71 teams over eight leagues in the National Alliance for College Summer Baseball (NACSB). The .762 winning percentage is the second highest in the NYCBL’s modern era (post-2000). Last summer, the Glens Falls Golden Eagles posted an .850 winning percentage.

The Dodgers have won four Western Division regular-season titles since 2003 (2003, 2004, 2005, 2008) and made the playoffs in six out of the last seven years.

Tenhouse, the first-year Dodgers bench boss, is an assistant baseball coach at St. Louis Community College – Florissant Valley.