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Frerich's Career to be Honored at July
11 Event
July 5, 2009 |
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The long and storied career of Elkhorn head coach Jerry Frerichs
will be honored during a special ceremony Saturday, July 11 that
will precede Post 211's 6:00 home game against KB Building
Services (Westside) at Elkhorn Legion Field. Coach
Frerichs will retire at the end of this season from his
positions as head coach of Elkhorn Post 211 Senior Legion
and Elkhorn High School varsity head coach, according to Elkhorn
Legion President Kevin Giesselmann. The 2009 season marks
Frerich's thirty-fifth season coaching baseball.
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Jerry Frerichs
Elkhorn Head Coach |
Frerichs, a former Wayne State ballplayer, arrived in Elkhorn in
1977 and restarted the Elkhorn Legion baseball program that
year. Prior to that, Elkhorn players participated in a
joint program with Arlington. The fledgling Elkhorn
program played at what is now known as Antler Field.
Seeing the need for a better facility for the program, Coach
Frerichs began grooming some pasture land adjacent to the City
Park into what is now Legion Field -- one of the nicest baseball
facilities in the state. To honor Frerich's long and
successful career and dedication to the Elkhorn program,
representatives of the Omaha City Council will be present at the
ceremony to read an official proclamation renaming Legion Field
as "Frerichs Legion Field."
Under Coach Frerichs' leadership, the Elkhorn High School team
has appeared in the State Tournament four of the past six years,
winning back-to-back state championships in 2007 and 2008.
The Post 211 Senior Legion team won Class B state championships
in 2000, 1995 and 1988 and finished state runner-up four times
-- 1992, 1990, 1989 and 1987. Frerichs was honored as the
2008 Spring Season Varsity Coach of the Year by the Nebraska
Baseball Coaches Association and was selected Head Coach of the
2009 Scotty Orcutt All-Star Team.
The ceremony will start at 5:30, and all Elkhorn baseball alumni
are encouraged to attend and arrive at 5:15 to be recognized.
Elkhorn youth baseball players are also asked to arrive by 5:15. |
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Happy Fourth of July! Baseball,
Parades, Fireworks! |
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Top: A scene from the
Fifty-somethingth Annual J.E. George 4th of July Parade near
Memorial Park in Omaha. Bottom: Pinnacle Bank (LSW)
catcher John Mulgrue prepares to tag Ideal Images Bulldogs
(Burke) shortstop Taylor Anderson at the plate in the Mike
Peterson Tournament in Lincoln on Friday. Anderson broke
for home on a 1st & 3rd play when the baserunner from
first attempted to steal second. Anderson was out on the
play, but the Bulldogs went on to claim a 4-3 win over the
Silver Hawks. Nate Quadhamer put the Dawgs ahead for good with a
two-run single in the top of the sixth. Action continues
in the "Pete" today and tomorrow. Photo by Terry
Anderson. |
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Top Seeds For Metro Area Tournaments
Set
July 3, 2009 |
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Although the official Metro League seeding meeting won't take
place until next Wednesday, July 8th, it appears that the teams
that will be the number one seeds in the four Metro Junior
Legion Area Tournaments and the four Senior Legion Area
Tournaments have now been determined. Based on our
unofficial compilation of Metro League win-loss records, NP
Dodge Wildcats (Millard West) has earned the #1 overall seed in
the Seniors division with a perfect 10-0 record. In the
Juniors Division Associated Fire Protection (Papio South) has
also finished league play with a spotless league record of ten
wins and no losses. The Junior Bluejays (Prep) are 9-0
with one game remaining to be played tonight against the Skutt
SkyHawks (4-5). If the Bluejays win tonight to finish
10-0, a tie-breaker based on Run Differential (runs scored -
runs allowed over the ten game league schedule) will be used to
determine which of the two 10-0 Junior Legion teams will be the
overall number one seed in the Metro Areas.
Millard West Cats (8-1) and KB Building Services (8-2) are the
other two top seeds among the juniors, but the order of their
finish, along with that of the Junior Bluejays, will be
determined by the outcome of the Prep game tonight and the Cats'
one remaining game against Stacey Dental (4-4) on Tuesday, July
7. If the Cats defeat Stacey Dental to go to 9-1, they
will could earn either the 2nd or 3rd seed depending on the
outcome of the Prep game. A Cats' win coupled with a Prep
loss would leave both teams at 9-1 without having played
head-to-head. The Run Differential tie-breaker would be
employed to resolve the tie. If the Cats lose and finish
8-2, the Run Differential tie-breaker will be used to break the
tie between the Cats and Westside for the #3 overall seed.
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UNO
recruit Ryan Bolt threw a complete game two-hitter as
Oakview Construction nabbed a #1 seed with a 3-1 win
over KB Building Services Wednesday evening in Metro
League Senior Legion action. Photo by Patti
Johnson. |
In
the Senior Division, Oakview Construction (Skutt) pulled off a
big 3-1 win over KB Building Services Wednesday night to claim a
#1 seed. Recent UNO signee Ryan Bolt threw a two-hitter
for Oakview with eight strikeouts. Spencer Masching had
the big hit for Oakview, a two-run base hit in the fourth.
Jory Goldstrom accounted for the only Westside run with a solo
homer. The win left the two teams tied at 7-3 with Oakview
earning priority with the head-to-head win.
Associated Fire Protection (Papio South) and Tom Hansen
Construction (Bellevue East) both finished league play with nine
wins and one loss. AFP earns the #2 overall seed by virtue
of a 1-0 win over the Bellevue East team on June 3rd. The
four top seeds in the Senior Division finished as follows:
#1 NP Dodge (10-0), #2 Associated Fire Protection (9-1),
#3 Tom Hansen Construction (9-1) and #4 Oakview Construction
(7-3).
American Legion Athletic Committee Chairman Don Kiviniemi, Jr.
announced yesterday to coaches in the League that Run
Differential will be used as the second tie-breaker where
head-to-head results are unavailable. For the past three
years the Metro League has used aggregate opponent
win-percentage as the second tie-breaker. During
that period, the Seniors and Juniors each played a twelve-game
schedule consisting of ten games against opponents within their
division plus two games against opponents from the other
division. Each team had a unique mix of twelve opponents,
resulting in a unique opponent win-percentage for each that
could be used as a tie-breaker.
This
year, due to the shortening of the Legion season by one week,
the twelve-game schedule has been reduced to ten games
with all of those games being played against opponents in the
same division. As a result, the aggregate opponent
win-loss percentage for every team at the end of the season will
now be .500, which means that OWP is no longer an effective
tie-breaker. The lack of a second-tie breaker was not
anticipated prior to the beginning of the season and was not
recognized as an issue until league play was underway.
After considering various alternatives, Mr. Kiviniemi determined
yesterday that using Run Differential as a substitute
tie-breaker provides a reasonable solution to the issue.
At
the seeding meeting next Wednesday, the official league results
will be announced, and the twenty-one Senior teams and
twenty-two Junior teams in the Metro Areas will be ranked in
order based on their league records and using the two
tie-breakers. After the ranking is accomplished, the teams
will then be assigned to Area Tournaments using a serpentine
method. Site host teams for each tournament have already
been assigned, and under the league procedures, a site host
always plays in the tournament that it is hosting. So if
the serpentine method causes two or more site hosts to be placed
in the same tournament, a method known as "horizontal swapping"
is used to re-assign the lower-ranked site host to another
tournament.
Area
Tournaments will take place at the following locations July
15-20:
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Junior Legion |
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Area 1 |
Westside |
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Area 1 |
Omaha Burke |
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Area 2 |
Ralston |
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Area 2 |
Omaha Skutt Catholic |
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Area 3 |
Millard South |
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Area 3 |
Omaha Gross Catholic |
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Area 4 |
Papillion - Fricke Field |
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Area 4 |
Millard West |
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Area 5 |
Lincoln - Sherman Field |
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Area 5 |
Lincoln |
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Area 6 |
Norfolk |
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Area 6 |
Grand Island |
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Area 7 |
Scottsbluff |
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Area 7 |
Hastings |
Areas 5, 6 and 7 will seed their tournaments based on
overall records.
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Current Metro
League Senior Legion Standings |
Current Metro
League Junior Legion Standings |
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Team Nebraska Finishes Second in
Oklahoma Tourney
June 30, 2009 |
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Team Nebraska: (back
row, l - r) Head Coach Bill Olson, Taylor Anderson, Aiden Hook,
Scott Bates, David Sutton, Ryan Herdman, Kyle Honeycutt,
Assistant Coach Roland Kenny; (front row, l-r) Tanner
Lubach, Matt Sich, Kyle Kubat, Taylor Doggett, Grant Kay, Austin
Groth. (Not pictured: Adam Morey) Photo by
Bev Kubat. |
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Hall
of Fame Coach Bill Olson and his Team Nebraska, composed of
underclassmen from Eastern Nebraska, recently returned from the
prestigious Sun Belt Class Tournament in Edmond, Oklahoma with
the runner up trophy. The team lost in the
championship game to a Texas team that they had defeated earlier
in pool play. The tournament was held from June 4 - 8.
It
was fourth time in the past five years that the former Omaha
Northwest coach has taken a team from Nebraska to the
tournament. The players are all juniors-to-be, except for
Austin Groth of South Sioux City who is a rising sophomore.
Groth was also the only player from outside of Omaha or LIncoln.
Players were nominated for participation by area high school
coaches.
Members of the team were: Kyle Kubat, Aiden Hook and Scott
Bates from Creighton Prep, Tanner Lubach, Taylor Anderson and
Taylor Doggett from Lincoln Southwest, Matt Sich and Kyle
Honeycutt from Millard South, Ryan Herdman and David Kay from
Ralston, Adam Morey from Millard West, David Sutton from Lincoln
Southeast and Groth. Coach Olson was assisted by Roland
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Papio South Looking for July 2nd Game
June 26, 2009 |
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Associated Fire Protection (Papio South) Senior Legion is
looking to add a game to its schedule on July 2nd. The
Titans already have a game at 8:00pm but are looking to add a
game earlier in the day in order to put together a double-header
prior to taking the 4th of July weekend off. The Titans
are willing to travel up to an hour away to get in a second
game. If interested, contact
Coach Bill Lynam. |
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Junior Bluejays Clinch Share of Metro
League American Division Championship
June 25, 2009, updated June 26 |
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The
Junior Bluejays (Creighton Prep) Junior Legion team clinched at
least a share of the American Division Championship in the Metro
League with an 11-0 win over Nebraska Medical Center Bears
Tuesday night. The win improved the Junior Bluejays'
league record to a perfect 8-0 with two games remaining in
league action. The Prep team is 22-3 overall for the
summer.
According to information reported to BaseballNebraska.com to
date, there are four two-loss teams in the American Division
with a chance of finishing at 8-2: KB Building Services
(6-2), Dodge Wildcats (5-2), PrimeTime Patriots (3-2) and Skutt
SkyHawks (2-2). All but the SkyHawks have already lost to
the Bluejays and will be competing for a second-place division
finish. The SkyHawks and Bluejays will make up a May 26
rainout on July 3rd.
Associated Fire Protection (Papio South) leads the Metro League
Juniors National Division with a 7-0 record and is 19-3 overall.
Papio Post 32 (4-1), Millard West Cats (2-1) and Deeb Mustangs
(2-1) all have one loss based on results reported to date.
Like
the Senior Legion Metro League, the Juniors are playing a league
schedule of ten games against division opponents.
Following the completion of league play, the each team will be
ranked within its eleven-team division and seeded into one of
four Area tournaments at a seeding meeting to be held July 8.
Coaches are encouraged to review the recently published
Metro League
Juniors standings and to report any missing scores to
admin@metropreps.com.
In
Metro League Senior
Legion standings, the NP Dodge Wildcats have clinched the
American Division with a perfect 9-0 record (19-2 overall) with
one game remaining. KB Building Services (Westside) is
alone in second place with a 7-2 record, and Oakview
Construction (Skutt) is 6-3 following a loss to PrimeTime
Patriots Wednesday evening. The Warriors and SkyHawks face
off on July 1.
Meanwhile in the National Division, Associated Fire Protection (Papio
South) is atop the standings at 7-1 with Tom Hansen Construction
also reporting only one loss at 4-1.
In
the Nebraska Reserve Baseball League, the Omaha Cardinals handed
the Bluejays (Prep) their first league loss of the season last
night by a score of 9-8. The Bluejays remain atop the NRBL
standings with a 7-1 record. NRBL play concludes by July
16. |
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