Eagle High Baseball

2008 Eagle High Varsity Baseball Coaches
			Frank Wright - Head Varsity Coach Coach Wright was a three sport athlete in high school and a two time All Far Western Conference infielder at Cal State University, Hayward, coach Wright was drafted and signed by the Kansas City Royals in 1969. His Coaching career started in 1972 as the Head Varsity Coach at Buchser High School in Santa Clara, California. After five League, and a Regional Championship over an eight year tenure, the Wright family moved to Idaho to pursue a healthier, safer, life style. A short venture into the business world convinced Coach Wright that education and Coaching were what he was meant to do. Tenures at Meridian (4 Sophomore District Championships and two Varsity State championships), Centennial ( 3 SIC championships and 5 trips to the state tournament) led to his current job at Eagle High. The Mustangs have played in 3 of the last 6 State finals and the 2003 club went 29-1 en route to a State Championship and a National Ranking. Over a hundred of Coach Wright's former players have entered the college ranks and several have played professionally. Most notable of that group is Mark Langston, a four time All Star and two time strike out king in the American League. Joe Charboneau, 1980 AL rookie of the year with Cleveland, and Rick Bauer, a current big league pitcher, also played for Coach Wright. 5 Victories this year will put him over 600 for a career that has spanned 36 years. The Wright family consists of wife Gayle, a retired teacher, son Matt and daughter Sara, both students at BSU.

			Frank Harper -Head Assistant Coach Born and raised in Indianapolis, Indiana, Coach Harper enters his thirteenth year with Eagle Mustang baseball. Coach Harper was a two sport letterman out of Ben Davis High School. He earned All-Conference and All-State honors in baseball and basketball while at Ben Davis. An arm injury prevented him from continuing his baseball career. After baseball, Coach Harper entered the military where he spent twenty years, retiring in 1997. At Eagle High School, Coach Harper started his coaching career as Assistant Sophomore Coach. After three years as an assistant coach, Coach Harper took the Head Sophomore Coaching position. In the five years as Head Sophomore Coach, Coach Harper’s teams racked–up an impressive 92 and 34 record with three appearances in the district championship. In 2003 during the state playoffs Coach Harper took over as the Varsity first base coach as Eagle went on to win the 2003 State Championship. In 2004 Coach Harper was appointed Assistant Varsity Coach and is entering his fourth year. In addition to high school baseball, Coach Harper was the Head Coach for the Eagle Vipers American Legion team. Coach Harper spent seven years as the Single A coach and in 2004 was hired as the AA coach. Coach Harper is in his fourth year of coaching the Eagle Owls in Idaho’s first summer college baseball league (Boise Collegiate Summer Baseball League). Coach Harper is also an Associate Scout with the Detroit Tigers. Coach Harper and his wife Alicia reside in Eagle; they have two children, Chad 25 and Corey 23. Corey was a member of the “2003 State Championship Team” and went on to pitch for the Pratt Beavers and Blue Mountain Timberwolves.

			Emil Drzayich Jr. - Hitting and Bench Coach Emil hails from Mingo Junction, Ohio, a small steel town on the Ohio River near Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. He graduated from Mingo High School in 1973. He received a baseball scholarship to Ohio University in the Mid-American Conference. He garnered all-conference and all-region honors while playing for the Bobcats. He also broke the career home run record, then held by Hall of Famer Mike Schmidt of the Philadelphia Phillies. In 1978 he moved west to Boise to pursue his dream of playing professional baseball. He played with the Boise Buckskins and then went on to play with the Victoria Mussels, both Independent teams in the Northwest League. Success there brought the opportunity to sign with the Cincinnati Reds organization where he played in Cedar Rapids for their single A long season affiliate, the Cedar Rapids Reds. Forced into early retirement, Emil has satisfied his passion for the game by staying involved as a coach for many years in youth baseball in the Eagle area. Working with his four sons over the years has been a great blessing to him. All four have played for Coach Wright at Eagle High. Zac, his oldest, is a graduate of BSU in construction management. Nick graduated in 2003 and was a member of the State Champion Mustangs. He is now a coach in the program. Jake and Mack are members of the Brigham Young University baseball squad, both going the walk-on route to achieve their dream of playing D-1 baseball. Emil married the former Peggy Ann Bingham in 1979. He is so grateful for her support over the many years “at the yard”. Her involvement in the Eagle High program has been extensive over the years. She has devoted much time and effort into making the Eagle High Mustang baseball program better.

			Randy Dodd - Pitching Coach

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