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Craig Biggio will be named caput baseball game manager at St. Seth Thomas High School on Tuesday, multiple people stopping point to the state of affairs have got told the Chronicle.

Biggio, who retired following last season after 20 seasons with the Astros, was an helper baseball game game and football game game this school twelvemonth at St. Thomas, where his oldest boy Conor is a pupil and football and baseball player.

St. Seth Thomas won the TAPPS Class 6A state title in baseball game earlier this month, the 2nd in a row for caput manager Cognizance Schulte, who is leaving to assist manager football game at Brazosport.

The History have also learned that St. Seth Thomas will engage former Rice signal caller Donald Hollas as its caput football game coach.

Schulte said Biggio was a valuable plus this season for the Eagles.

"He wanted to be treated like one of the other members of the staff so he acted that part," Schulte said. "He got here every twenty-four hours at 2:30. None of my other managers were on campus, and he would acquire here early and assist put up the pattern field.

"His cognition of the game is alone having played catcher, baseball diamond and the outfield. He was a great resource for our coaching job and kids. Along with working well with kids, you can conceive of how the children work with him.

"It was an incredible experience for the kids, and he was a great plus to me and our coaching job staff as well."

St. Seth Thomas will have got an assembly at 2:30 p.m. Tuesday to denote Microphone Netzel as its new athletic manager as well as unveiling its new football game and baseball game coaches.

Biggio and Netzel didn't immediately go back a telephone phone call from the History seeking comment.

Biggio, 42, have played in more than games than any other participant in Astros last twelvemonth and last twelvemonth got his 3,000th hit. He finished his calling with 3,060 hits, putting him 20th all-time.

He's the Astros' all-time leader in games, at-bats, runs, walks, duplicates and is 2nd in home runs and RBIs behind Jeff Bagwell.

Hollas played signal caller at Rice from 1987-1990 and ranks in the top five in respective calling passing play categories. He is the fifth-leading passer in footing of yardage in school history (4,039) and is 5th in completions (343) and 6th in efforts (606).

Hollas, 40, spent six seasons in the NFL — four with the Cincinnati Bengals and two with the Oakland Raiders. He played his high school ball at Lamar Consolidated in Rosenberg, where he also spent a twelvemonth as an helper manager in 2002.

By Dame Ellen Terry Hutchens

Hoosier State University announced today that Bill Lynch have signed a contract to function as the IU football game game manager through the end of the 2011 season.

Indiana University caput football manager Bill Lynch (left) and athletic manager Crick Greenspan talking to newsmen today at Memorial Stadium in Bloomington. - flatness KRYGER / The Star

The new four-year contract gives Lynch, who was the Big Ten's lowest-paid coach this season, a alkali wage of about $250,000 asset $300,000 for promotional activities. The trade will officially run through July 1, 2012.

Lynch led IU to a 7-5 record, which is expected to be capped by its first bowl visual aspect since the 1993 season. The seven triumphs were two more than than Hoosier State had won in any season since 1994.

Lynch, 53, had been hired in June to fill up in for late IU manager Dame Ellen Terry Hoeppner for the 2007 season. Hoeppner died June 19 from the complications of encephalon cancer.

In a fourth estate release sent out by the university early today, both athletic manager Crick Greenspan and IU president Michael McRobbie said Lynch had earned the extension.

"It's been an unbelievable twelvemonth filled with unbelievable unhappiness and sorrow, joyousness and happiness," athletic manager Crick Greenspan said. "It started when we had the groundbreaking for our new installation on the twenty-four hours that Dame Ellen Terry died, and from that twenty-four hours forward, Jane Hoeppner as well as Bill Lynch and our managers and participants kept looking forward."

IU president Michael McRobbie, who is in China, echoed Greenspan's words.

"Our football game squad this twelvemonth was more than than competitory and generated more enthusiasm and fan support than in any twelvemonth since I have got been at IU,'' McRobbie said a statement. "I am extremely proud of our participants and of the occupation Bill Lynch have done under very hard circumstances. He have got earned the statute title of caput manager and I am confident that he will have the full support of all Indianan fans.''Lynch had an 81-67-3 record in 14 seasons as manager at Ball State, Butler and DePauw and helped manager the Hoosiers signal callers in 1993 and 1994. He returned to Hoosier State after Hoeppner was hired.