Auburn High baseball coach Brian Embery stepped down from his post Wednesday morning following just 11 games with the program.

Embery, who compiled a 7-4 overall record at Auburn, left the team last week, but didn’t resign until three days ago.

The 52-year-old coach said he didn’t feel at liberty to comment on the exit on Wednesday other than to confirm he had resigned.

Phone calls and an e-mail to school officials were not returned by the Reporter’s deadline time.

Gordon Elliott, Auburn’s head football coach and JV baseball coach, will guide the team for the rest of the season, according to Thursday’s Seattle Times.

Embery, a 1973 Auburn High graduate, took over for Tim Kuykendall, who resigned after last season to accept the head coaching job at Curtis, which is closer to his home in University Place.

Kuykendall led the Trojans to the state tournament in seven of the last eight seasons, including second-place finishes in each of the last two springs.

The Trojans fell to Bonney Lake on Wednesday, 13-2. But prior to that, they had won four of their previous five games. During that span, they outscored their opponents 50-17.

Auburn was 8-4 and in a three-way tie for first in the South Puget Sound League 3A heading into Friday’s game against Auburn Riverside (results unavailable).

Embery brought with him not only a wealth of baseball knowledge, but a no-nonsense approach to the game. He played at both Green River Community College and University of La Verne in California. He also coached at La Verne (two years), Big Bend Community College in Moses Lake (two years) and Emporia State University in Kansas (16 years).

He compiled a 458-320 overall record in 16 years at Emporia State.

Adding to his list of accomplishments, Embery also spent several years coaching in the Jayhawk League, a premier wood-bat league that has produced some of major league baseball’s top talent.

The Trojans played host to Bonney Lake on Wednesday and traveled to Auburn Riverside for a game on Friday afternoon. The regular season concludes on Monday when Auburn plays host to Enumclaw.