RCHS Baseball Team Earns Academic Excellence Awards

The 2023 Redwood Christian High School Baseball Team not only excelled on the baseball field advancing to the North Coast Section Division III semifinals of this past spring, while earning the ABCA (American Baseball Coaches Association) Team Academic Excellence Award and earned the highest team GPA in Division III of the North Coast Section of the California Interscholastic Federation (CIF).  In the 2022 season, RCHS earned the highest team GPA in Division IV.  The RCHS Baseball team, coached by Mark Saake, earned an overall 3.78 GPA out of a possible 4.0, and was one of only twenty-three California high schools listed on the ABCA website.  

Team members were seniors Brayden Bibby, Tommy Charlton, Reece Gallarzan, Ethan Neal, Joshua Nixon, Samuel Quiroz, and Craig Yanagihara; juniors Caleb Busch, Carter Eberhard, Ben Nguyen, and Jacob Tang; and sophomores Travis Dong, Gavin Fanucchi, and Tyler Skjong.

Dr. Al Hearne, Superintendent of Redwood Christian Schools, commended Coach Saake and his staff for stressing academics and the team for “taking the life lessons learned on the baseball field, including commitment, dedication and hard-work, with them into the classroom, and modeling these traits to the entire student body.”