Tom Carty enters his fourth season as the Bobcats' skipper, coming off one of the top seasons in the illustrious history of Georgia College baseball.

The 2010 Bobcat squad came a few runs away from the National Championship game, winning both the Peach Belt Conference and NCAA Southeast Tournament Championship along the way. Carty guided the Bobcats to the NCAA Tournament for the second-straight season, but advanced them to the World Series round for the first time since 1995. The Bobcats finished 42-17, winning the school's third PBC title since 2006.

In just three seasons, Carty has put together a 112-60 (.651) mark. While Carty has been with the program as a head coach and assistant, the Bobcats own an amazing 209-88 (.728) mark, the first three Peach Belt Championships in school history and four trips to the NCAA Regional Tournament.

Carty returned the historic Bobcat program to excellence in 2009 with its third trip to the NCAA Tournament in the last four seasons, compiling a 37-19 overall record and a 16-11 Peach Belt Conference (PBC) ledger, good for third.

The youthful Bobcats went 33-24 with Carty at the helm in 2008, kicking it into high gear for the final few weeks to claw into the fifth spot in the Peach Belt playoffs.

Carty previously served primarily as pitching coach, helping produce a pair of All-America honors from Michael Antonini. He joined fellow pitcher Andy Reichard as Major League Baseball draftees in 2007, Reichard in the 13th round to the San Francisco Giants, and Antonini to the New York Mets in round 18. Alex Burkard was the latest Bobcat hurler to get drafted, getting chosen in 2010 by the Los Angeles Angels. Chrisitan Castorri advanced to Double-A ball before joining the collegiate coaching ranks, making a total of four pitchers that have worked with Carty at Georgia College having spent time in major league farm systems.

Outfielder Brandon Anderson, infielder Brooks Robinson, catcher Pete Paris and pitcher Brandon Malkowski are also active playing professional baseball for Independent League teams.

As recruiting coordinator, Carty helped bring in solid classes in each of his two years, including multiple players who were drafted before committing to Georgia College.

The Bobcat pitching staff was at an all-time high in 2006, compiling a school-best 2.82 ERA with 437 strikeouts, the third-best total by GCSU hurlers. Add to that a 3.53 ERA, 408 strikeouts and four shutouts in 2007, and one can see the strong impact Carty has had on the Bobcat arms.

In the summer of 2006, he served as head coach of the USA Athletes International Team that won a gold medal in Oldenzaal, the Netherlands.

Prior to Georgia College, Carty spent four seasons as the pitching coach and recruiting coordinator for Division I Marshall University, then a member of the Mid-American Conference. While there he helped the Thundering Herd pitching staff break many school single season records.

Carty also spent one year at North Carolina State University where he was the director of baseball operations and served the summer of 2001 as the pitching coach for the Delaware Valley Gulls of the Atlantic Collegiate Baseball League. Carty spent two years as an assistant coach at West Chester University in Pennsylvania in 1999 and 2000 and also held coaching assignments at Delaware Valley College and Montgomery County Community College prior to that.

Carty graduated with a degree in History from Gwynedd-Mercy College in Pennsylvania in 1996. He is originally from Norristown, Pa.

Zeke Mitchem enters his fourth season as assistant coach. Mitchem will continue to handle coaching infield defense and the offensive game plan, as well as third base coaching duties and recruiting coordinator.  

2010 was a stellar offensive year for the Bobcats. Georgia College produced multiple top-10 marks in offensive categories. They hit .340 (3rd), scoring 556 runs (3rd), swatting a school-record 79 home runs and driving in 509 (2nd). Bobcat bats added 144 doubles (2nd) and 132 stolen bases (4th) in the mix as well.

In 2009, the baserunners were at an all-time high stealing 154 bases, which tied for school-best. The team also had 933 total bases including 119 doubles, which are also top-10 records for Georgia College.

Since 2005, Mitchem has worked internationally in baseball, most recently as head coach of the Solingen Alligators Baseball Club in Germany and as assistant coach for the German Senior National Team since 2005. He also served as head coach of the Northern Districts Baseball Club in Australia in 2006 and the Mainz Athletics Baseball Club in Germany from 2005-06.

Carty and Mitchem first crossed paths as members of the Thundering Herd coaching staff at Marshall University from 2003-04. Prior to Marshall, Mitchem-whose career expertise has been on infield defense and hitting-was a member of another Division I squad at Drexel University from 2000-03. He also served as an assistant at Division II Henderson State University in Arkadelphia, Ark. from 1999-2000.

Mitchem has also served as head coach for multiple summer semi-pro squads in Oregon, Pennsylvania and New Jersey.

MILLEDGEVILLE, Ga. – Head coach Tom Cartyof the Georgia College & State University baseball team has announced the hiring of Steve Moritz as graduate assistant coach.

Moritz, a 2005 graduate of Kansas State University, comes to Milledgeville from Darton College where he was the pitching coach and assistant recruiting coordinator in 2009-10, where they finished fourth in the conference.

Before his stint at Darton, Moritz spent time at Middle Georgia College, where he was the hitting coach, assistant recruiting coordinator as well as the strength and conditioning coach from 2006-09. Middle Georgia was Region 17 champs and GJCAA Tournament champs in 2009 and also participated in the 2009 JUCO World Series.

Moritz will work primarily with catchers and outfielders. He will aid assistant coach Zeke Mitchem with hitters and recruiting. He also will have a role in strength and conditioning.

In 2010, the Bobcats went 42-17, marking the seventh-straight season of 30-plus wins. GCSU had seven players named to the All-PBC team and Carty was even named Coach of the Year. Georgia College advanced to the semifinals of the D-II College World Series before losing 3-2 to University of Southern Indiana.  

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