Kody Hines
By Pat O'Malley
Photos by Larry French & Katie Redmiles
Archbishop Spalding High School
Baseball
Hines is playing his fourth varsity season for the Cavaliers’ baseball team and is coming off a big junior season in which he batted .507 (38 for 75) with 27 runs and 27 RBIs. An All-County, SUN second team All-Metro, and Private School All-State middle infielder, Hines had a .986 fielding percentage for the 27-10 Cavs, who finished number four in the Baltimore Sun’s final Top 15 Poll. The past couple seasons the Cavaliers have chased the powerhouse Calvert Hall team in the Maryland Interscholastic Athletic Association A Conference, and Hines and a strong senior nucleus hope this is the year they pass the Cardinals. Calvert Hall went a state record 33-0 last season and their entire program, JV and freshman teams included, was an unprecedented 75-0. Baseball America has Calvert Hall ranked number two in the nation in its preseason high school Top 50 poll. “They [Hall] deserve it [lofty ranking] and they have won the title the last three years, so you have to say they’re the team to beat, until we beat them,” said Hines, who has a 2.5 grade-point-average and is headed to Anne Arundel Community College to study criminal justice. “We haven’t won one yet, but this year we have a great opportunity to do it. We came into the season with a lot of seniors returning and we have a pretty solid team overall.” Hines main position is second base, but when star shortstop Jeff Kemp went down with a season-ending injury last spring at the halfway mark, he moved over and did an outstanding job. He is the son of Tom and Kim Hines.