His deep voice makes you forget he’s only a high school junior.

He’s already been to showcases in front of college coaches and possibly professional scouts.

He’s topped out at 89 miles per hour.

Pressure is nothing new to the reigning Region 3 Player of the Year, Casey Vincent, who helped lead Eisenhower to its first District 10 title in 11 years last season. He threw his fourth career high school no-hitter on Wednesday, shutting out Otto-Eldred at Werner Park in Russell.

But the biggest pressure and competition might have been his backyard growing up, where he learned to play against his older brother Cody, who pitched Eisenhower to that D10 title in 2003, and who went on to pitch at Division I St. Bonaventure University.

“We had a neighbor kid that kept all these stats for like 15 years,” said Jon Vincent, Casey’s father. “That’s where they learned to play… in the backyard.”

Casey grew up with a baseball in his right hand.

“We’re big on the game,” said Jon. “Both he and Cody grew up watching me play. They grew up on a ball field. Casey was at the ball field every day, because Cody was playing. He grew up with a baseball in his hand.”

It’s the love for the game that has kept him going, and his competitiveness – with and against his older brother – that’s gotten him better and better.

“He really does love the game,” said Jon, who sees the growth in his youngest son as a player and pitcher each and every year, and that includes the velocity on his fastball. “86-87-88… Every time he’d hit that next (mile per hour) he just kept getting more and more excited.”

He must love it – he travels all summer on two different summer league teams that keep him in a car for long drives.

“My dad has always been pushing me to excel,” said Casey. “He’s seen Cody and kids in college and knows what you have to do to get to that next level. It’s definitely been helpful – I look back at my baby photos and there’s pictures of my brother and I playing Wiffle Ball in my house. It’s been kind of like a blessing to have them there.

“With Cody, I’ve probably only missed two series (all of the years he played),” said Casey. “Every spring training we would go down to Florida (to watch Cody pitch for St. Bonaventure)… It definitely makes me want to be just as good or better than him, honestly.”

Cody would be the first to tell you he’d love for Casey to be better, though he wouldn’t tell Casey that. First off, he’s now his head coach at Eisenhower – taking over after their father Jon was coach – and, secondly, he’s still his big brother.

You don’t think Casey holds it over Cody’s head that he already throws harder than his big brother ever did?

“Oh, I tell him I throw harder, then he comes back at me that he was the one with the control in the family,” said Casey. “He’s always, ‘Been there, done that.'”

Cody said there’s never been a shadow.

“I think when he was younger he may of felt that way, but now he is building his own legacy,” said Cody. “I know he strives to always one-up me. We have a competitive relationship, but at the same time we want the other to do better. I mean, I couldn’t even let him win a Wiffle Ball game when he was five.

“I guess when I look back I can be hard on him, but only when I have to be,” said Cody. “He is a good kid, does well in school and in sports; don’t have to get on him too much. I’ve worked with him a lot on how to pitch -setting up hitters, trying to get him to throw a change up, but my dad made it simple. He taught us everything we knew. There’s not much left to teach him except lil’ things here and there. We honestly don’t talk about pitching that much with each other. He knows what to do and he will usually come to me during a game and asks me what I see with his curveball or, if he gets a little wild, what I see in his mechanics. He just does what he can on the mound. He can’t go into a game thinking he can’t give up any runs. That’s unrealistic. Only Felix Hernandez can handle that situation on a constant bases.”

Casey will remind Cody that he’s thrown more no-hitters.

“Cody would even admit that Casey is a little farther along than he was at this point,” said Jon. “They are very competitive with each other. One big difference is Cody didn’t have the opportunities Casey has. We know now to do things a lot different.”

Cody wasn’t even being recruited by Division I St. Bonaventure University. A coach was actually scouting a Meadville player while visiting the District 10 playoffs at Slippery Rock University back then, but saw Cody pitch nine innings for a win.

Nowadays, the showcase tournaments Casey pitches in bring his game right to the college coaches. Now that they can contact him, it has been only Division I coaches contacting him.

He’s received interest from 22 Division I programs.

“You’ve got to get out there, you’ve got to get that exposure,” said Jon. “I’d like to see him taking advantage of his opportunities.”

As far as Casey is concerned, that means a second straight District 10 title for the Knights.

“It definitely meant a lot coming from a small school,” said Casey. “I’ve had people tell me, ‘Oh, you should go to (a bigger school). That kind of drives me…. for us to finish above .500, win a District 10 title, and this time win a game at states.”

There are also bigger challenges on the horizon.

And he will have to meet them.

“The guy with the hair’s coming in (to pitch),” Jon said he has overheard when Casey takes the mound at showcases.

He was told Casey can keep the hair, “but he’d better perform, or he’s going to hear about it. He will stand out.”

Cody said he used to cut his hair before every season, but “the hair’s just him,” he said.

So is his 0.69 ERA and 7-1 record pitching against Class A schools last season.

And if it was up to him?

“I mean, I would love to play for the Chicago Cubs one day,” said Casey. “They are my absolute favorite team.”

You forget he’s only a high school junior.