Whoa Dill's 400th Navarro head baseball coaching victory occurred Saturday as the Bulldogs shut out the Bossier Parish Cavaliers, 6-0, at Perry D. Graham Field.
The milestone win salvaged a split of the Region XIV North Zone-opening doubleheader after BPCC posted a 9-6 victory in the seven-inning first game.
Dill, a Corsicana native, currently ranks second in wins and games coached in Navarro baseball program history, but those positions are temporary
Dill, now 400-236-1 in his 12th season spanning two terms, is 12 games and 15 wins from surpassing program leader Skip Johnson, who Dill succeeded in 2007 after Johnson became pitching coach at The University of Texas.
Johnson, now in his eighth season as head baseball coach at The University of Oklahoma, compiled a strikingly similar 414-234 record in 12 Navarro seasons (1995-2006).
Dill's baseball legend adds another chapter. The former star pitcher at Corsicana High School and Navarro College became Johnson's assistant at age 24. Dill replaced Johnson in 2007, and, in the first eight seasons, led the 'Dawgs to four conference titles, three seasons of 44 or more wins, two Alpime Bank JUCO World Series appearances and the 2011 NJCAA National Championship. Since returning to NC in 2022, he's guided the Bulldogs to two more conference titles.
To secure No. 400 Saturday, the Bulldogs banged 11 hits and scored five runs in three of the first four innings to back the combined seven-hit shutout pitching of Tommy Mulkern, Armani Knipper and Adrian Najar.
Brock DeYoung led NC with two run-scoring hits for NC (5-7 / 1-1). Hank Harp, McCann Libby, Steven Ramos and Christian Hallmark added base hits for the Dawgs.
Mulkern (2-0) yielded four hits and struck out seven in five innings, while Knipper and Najar struck out five in three innings of three-hit relief.
In Game 1, Andy Roman and Hayden Stringfellow homered and Daniel Pinkerton added two hits in BPCC's 9-6 win.
