Eisenhower players celebrate moments after their PIAA semifinal victory in 2015. Due to low numbers, the future of the program continuing is in jeopardy.

The future of the Eisenhower High School baseball program is in serious jeopardy.

As of Feb. 25, only 10 kids had signed up to play, and the head coach position that was held by Joe Troxell the previous two seasons was posted on the Warren County School District website on Feb. 20, this after Troxell’s name appeared on a list of county-wide spring coaches at the Feb. 11 board meeting.

Troxell’s resignation was passed along to the March 11 board meeting.

“On Friday, the AD (Jim Penley) met with the kids and at that time there was a count of 10,” said Rick Gignac, Supervisor of District-Wide Athletics and Co-Curricular Activities, during Monday’s Personnel/Athletics & Co-Curricular Activities Committee meeting.

“Right now, Warren and Youngsville have baseball and Warren has a co-op with Sheffield,” Gignac said. “Eisenhower could not join that co-op because it would bump them up a classification. They could not join with Youngsville because it would also bump them up.”

Gignac also noted another potential option of dissolving the Warren and Sheffield co-op, with Sheffield having no participation for several years.

“If Sheffield had a couple of participants, I would not recommend dissolving the co-op and the Eisenhower kids would be stuck,” he added.

A potential decision on that couldn’t come until after the start of spring practices, with Director of Administrative Support Services Gary Weber noting that ‘the PIAA would not be able to approve until March 20.’

“Rick called the PIAA today, and asked if the board were to have a special meeting, would it help? They said no,” noted Superintendent Amy Stewart. “The board moving faster is not going to help this.”

It’s a dramatic fall for a program that just four years ago was competing in the state championship game.

Sources told the Times Observer that district officials were made aware of the pending situation late last year.

“It leaves us in a bad position for the kids,” Weber said. “There’s a lot of concern with it. At this point, we are not able to guarantee they are going to be able to have a team.”

And Eisenhower baseball isn’t the only spring program in Warren County that is dealing with a numbers issue.

Multiple sources have also told the Times Observer that Youngsville High School softball is well below the district-wide minimum threshold, with spring practices set to begin on March 4.