Baty Is Orange High’s New Baseball Coach
Mel Baty, former Orange High School assistant baseball coach, has been named the Panthers’ head coach, Dave Zirkle, Orange athletic director, announced on Monday.
Baty, 29, will replace Jack Galeener, who moved to Diamond Bar High where he will teach and be the school’s assistant baseball coach. Baty was an assistant to Galeener at Orange from 1982-84 and last spring coached the 8th and 9th grade baseball teams at Cerro Villa Junior High School in Villa Park.
University High baseball Coach Bryan Shaw has resigned to become a vice principal at Mary Putnam Henck Junior High in Lake Arrowhead. Shaw also served as an assistant football coach.
No successor has been named.
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