The sign on the clubhouse behind Trenton Catholic Academy’s baseball field needs replacing. It reads: Home of Lou Gehrig Baseball. That’s no longer the case, however, and members of the Hamilton league are crying “foul ball” on the TCA administration.

One of the more overlooked clichés among sports coaches is that they and their players are not worrying about the other team as much as they are concentrating on themselves.

Yeah, right. Either the coach isn’t quite being honest or, worse, he isn’t informed enough about the other team.

Trenton Catholic Academy senior guard Dondre Whitmore has made it official: he will attend Harcum College beginning this fall, with the plan of matriculating at a four-year program in 2012. This possibility was first reported in “In the Huddle” last month.

The Steinert High baseball team is on such a high level that it’s easy to assume the players would not need to spend time on bunting technique and situations, as they did Saturday during an indoor practice."

“That’s something you think, ‘OK, it’s simple,’" head coach Brian Giallella said. "But not necessarily. Do they spend a half hour or 45 minutes at a practice before doing that (on the youth level)? Probably not.”

High school sports polls are intended to rank the best teams geographically, usually within the coverage area of a media outlet. However, that talk that comes out of the polls, and disagreement among teams and fans, seems to have a bigger impact.

With that in mind, the devious side of “In the Huddle” has decided to stir the waters with a ranking of the top winter high school teams in Mercer County – regardless of sport. Yes, your favorite basketball team is matched head-to-head with your rival wrestling or swimming team in this poll.

The name of the upcoming event jumps out at you: NFL Pros vs. NHS Northstars. Ironically, the Nottingham High School football players will not try to make field goals (and points!) on the gridiron, but on the hardcourt.

It’s overwhelming how far the Robbinsville High School wrestling program has come in a short period of time. The Ravens didn’t even have seniors in the school when it moved up to the varsity level in the 2006-07 school year.

Postseason all-star teams are carry a lot of weight with high school football players, but nothing gives a better measure of what they should strive for than the Scholar/Leader/Athlete awards bestowed on 31 area seniors by the Delaware Valley Chapter of the National Football Foundation and College Hall of Fame. This year’s 48th annual awards dinner, where an impressive scholarship pool of $35,000 will be handed out, will be held Sunday, March 14 at the Princeton Hyatt Regency.

Kudos to the Ewing High School boys’ basketball team for being one of the four teams to earn its way into Mercer County Basketball Tournament finals. Hey, the Blue Devils even have good reason that they can’t play the championship game on Monday: they have a state-tournament game standing in the way of their MCT final against the Pennington School, the defending champion.

It’s terrific when a former athlete returns to a league in which he or she played and becomes a coach. The Hamilton Girls Softball Association goes a step further with a mentor program which allows current players to give back to the league.