WCL Corvallis Knights

Adelaide Hires Knights' Coach Brooke Knight as New Manager

November 15, 2013 - West Coast League (WCL)
Corvallis Knights News Release


Corvallis Knights head coach Brooke Knight was named the new manager of the Adelaide Bite of the Australian Baseball League on Friday.

The Bite are 3-6 and in fifth place in the six-team ABL heading into the final two games of this weekend's three-game series at Melbourne. Knight succeeds Charlie Aliano, who was relieved earlier this week.

Knight is currently travelling with the ABL's contingent at the 2013 Asia Series in Taichung, Taiwan. He will assume control of the team starting with the Nov. 28-30 home series with Brisbane.

"I am thrilled to take the next step in my career with such a talented roster and first-rate organization as the Bite," Knight said Friday. "With the core group of men we have bolstering our lineup and pitching staff, I am confident we will have things heading in the right direction in no time in our pursuit of the Claxton Shield," the ABL's championship award.

Knight is the winningest manager in the four-year history of the ABL, which is sponsored in part by Major-League Baseball. He posted a 58-27 record in two championship seasons (2011-2012) with the Perth Heat. He did not manage in the ABL last season.

Knight will begin his seventh year as skipper of the Knights next June. Corvallis has captured three West Coast League championships, seven regular-season division titles and six divisional playoff series titles and is 286-125 overall in his tenure. He was the WCL Coach of the Year in 2008, 2009, 2011 and 2013.

He is a Corvallis native and a graduate of Crescent Valley High School and Western Oregon University. He played college baseball at Oregon State and at WOU, for the former Richey's Market American Legion program, for the Knights in 1991, 1992 and 1994, and in the Pittsburgh and Milwaukee minor-league organizations.

Knight also played football at OSU and played and then coached baseball professionally in Australia before returning to the United States. He and his wife, Karlie, live in San Diego in the offseason and have a son, Briley.



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