The 2011 Baseball Mustangs won 24 games that season, including the 10th Region All “A” Tournament propelling them into the “A” State Tournament May 7-8th at Applebee’s Park (Legend’s Park) in Lexington.  Coach Matt Grosser knew that we had a chance to win the tournament and rolled the dice in our opening game against Prestonsburg, sending Dylan Embs, perhaps our Number 3 hurler, to the mound in that game, saving Jake Ollier and Zach Fardo for the semis and finals.  It worked.  Embs not only pitched a creditable game and defeated Prestonsburg 9-1, but he no-hit them.  Later in the day we faced Glasgow, another contender, and in that game Embs hit one over the left-centerfield fence for a home run.  The Mustangs went on to defeat Glasgow 7-1, but fell to Christian Academy of Louisville 5-2 the next day in the championship game.  

The 2011 Mustangs, who had defeated Campbell County in the regular season, lost to them in the district finals and lost to Harrison County in the Regional Tournament.  We graduated 9 Seniors from that team – Embs, Conner Boesch, Luke Dischar, Nick Hamberg, Ian Hehman, Travis Norton, Jake Ollier, John Schack and Chad Verst.

Embs closed out the 2011 season with a 4-1 record and an ERA of 2.20.  He also No-Hit Scott in the District Tournament.  At the plate he batted .310 with 5 Home Runs.  The Mustangs would return to Applebee’s Park in 2012 after winning the 10th Region Championship, this time to play in the KHSAA “Sweet Sixteen” State Tournament where Sophomore Nate Verst would defeat Louisville St. X in the State Quarterfinals.  We would fall to eventual State Champ Woodford County, taking them to extra innings behind Jesse Orth in the “Sweet Sixteen” Final Four closing out a 27 wins season in Coach Ron Verst’s inaugural season as our head coach.