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Final Statistical Leaders - 2009 American Legion Season |
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Huskers
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Casey Hauptman (0-2) drew praise
from Coach Mike Anderson after taking a tough luck loss in
relief as the Bruins swept the three-game series with a 5-4 win
on Saturday. Hauptmann went 6.1 innings, holding the
Bruins scoreless as the Huskers battled back from a 4-1 deficit
to tie it up. Hauptman exited after giving up a hit to
lead off the ninth. That baserunner later advanced on an
error and scored the winning run for the Bruins. Nebraska
hitters struck out a school-record 19 times. |
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3-7 |
Boxscore |
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Bluejays Update
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Reliever Bob
Lackovic (Skutt) surrendered 3 runs on 3 hits, a walk and a hit
batsman in the bottom of the ninth as Sam Houston posted a
comeback 11-10 win over the Bluejays on Sunday. Ian Dike (LSW)
had a career day, going 3-for-4 with 2 doubles, a HR and 3 RBI.
Robbie Knight (MN) was 1-for-2 with a walk and 2 RBI. |
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Series Info |
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5-3 |
Boxscore
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NEWS
(click "Archives"
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BaseballNebraska Taps Twitter To Create
Instant Score Reporting System
March 3, 2010 |
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 BaseballNebraska
is pleased to announce the creation of a new
instant score reporting system for the 2010
season. Called TeamTwitter, this
system will utilize the popular microblogging
site, Twitter.com, to transmit live score
updates from ballparks around the state to the
BaseballNebraska.com website. Registered
Twitter users can also receive those updates as
text messages on their cell phones. The
framework for the system is in place, but to
make it operational a corps of volunteer
reporters is needed to send update messages for
each team. Interested fans nineteen years
or age or older who would like to serve as the "TeamTwitter
Reporter"
for a particular team at the Varsity or Junior
Varsity level are encouraged to
sign up
as soon as possible. More information
about the system can be found on the "TeamTwitter"
link on the Main Menu.
Our readers may have also noticed
the dark grey Twitter display window near the
top of the home page. We will use the
baseballnebr Twitter account to
provide updates on various newsworthy scores and
highlights throughout the season, and those
updates will be displayed above in the window
above. This gives us the capability to
instantly publish the latest information from
remote locations directly to the home page of
the site via a cell phone. As always, our
goal is to keep our readers up to date with the
latest baseball information. |
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2010 Season Kicks Off With First Day of
Practice on March 1
March 2, 2010 |
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Creighton
Prep senior infielder / pitcher Bryan
Sova warms up his throwing arm in the
"old gym" at Prep Monday night, the
first day of spring practice. Sova
is looking to return to action following
Tommy John surgery last April. |
With temperatures struggling to
get into the mid-30's and a sharp wind blowing
out of the north, baseball players and coaches
across the state took to the gyms and batting
cages on Monday, the first day of practice for
the 2010 high school baseball season.
During the coming days most
coaches will be combining work on fundamentals
while also trying to make difficult decisions
about how to fill the rosters of the teams in
their programs. That task is made even
more difficult in those programs where some
prospective members of the baseball team remain
immersed in post-season basketball competition.
Basketball district tournaments are wrapping up
tonight followed by more than a week layoff
before the boys' state tournaments get underway
on the 11th. The state championship games
will be played on the 13th, just five days ahead
of the beginning of the baseball season.
High temperatures are predicted
to reach into the mid-to-upper 50's by the
weekend, with warm conditions remaining
throughout the following week. A good
stretch of warm weather and sunny skies could
erase much of the snow cover remaining across
the state and help soggy ballfields dry out.
Whether the warming trend that appears to be
just a few days away will be enough to get the
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The Big Question Looms: Will
Ballfields Be Ready by March 18th?
February 27, 2010 |
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Just like the rest of us, three guys with nearly
a century of combined varsity baseball head
coaching experience are looking out their
windows these days at the piles of snow and
wondering if the spring baseball season will get
started on time. Veteran coaches Jim
Thomas of Papillion LaVista (37 years), Randy
Brolhorst of Lincoln Southeast (31 years) and
Frank Ryan of Millard West (30 years) have seen
wintry landscapes turn into emerald green
ballfields many times over their long careers.
But, of the three, only Coach Brolhorst has much
hope that winter will relinquish its icy grip
this year in time to get the season started on
March 18, the first day of scheduled games.
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Elkhorn Legion
Baseball Announces Fundraising Events
February 22, 2010 |
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Elkhorn Legion Baseball will kick off the 2010
spring high school baseball season with a
Pancake Feed on March 14th. The event will
be held at the Elkhorn Eagles #3943, 20276 Wirt
Street, next to the post office, from 8:30 am
until 12:30pm. For $5.00 per person,
guests will get their choice of juice or coffee,
bacon or sausage, french toast or pancakes and
eggs, all cooked to order and served by members
of the baseball team.
And,
on April 24th, the organization will conduct its
popular Texas Hold 'Em Tournament and Spaghetti
Feed at Sempeck's Elkhorn Lanes. Baseball
fans are encouraged to attend both events which
support the Elkhorn Legion Baseball program.
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BaseballNebraska
Launches Statewide Network for Legion Baseball Coverage in All
Classes
February 20, 2010 |
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 After
devoting the vast majority of its coverage of
American Legion baseball over the past four
summers to Class A teams, BaseballNebraska is
taking a major expansion initiative for 2010 to
include Class B and C teams statewide at both
the Senior Legion and Junior Legion levels.
To accomplish this goal, BaseballNebraska is
rolling out an integrated statewide system
called the BaseballNebraska Network.
The Network will replace the LeagueLineup
application that participating teams have been
using for the past four years. The key
difference is that rather than entering team
information into a central administrative site,
each team will now be given their own
customizable team website that will have a data
link to the central Network main site.
When information is entered on a team website,
it will automatically appear on the Network main
site to update team records and standings.
With this system, a high school baseball fan can
go to the Network main site for an overview of
what's going on in the standings and can then
click through to any team website for detailed
information about that team and its players.
For those teams that already have an existing
team website, the BaseballNebraska Network team
site can be "turned off" for use as the team's
public site and can be used just for data entry
purposes. A link to the existing
team website can be provided on the Network Main
Site.
One of the goals of the new network is to create
a central source of information about Legion
baseball teams and players, thus making it
easier for fans from one end of the state to the
other to follow summer baseball. The new
system is also expected to provide greater
visibility for players who are looking to get
noticed by college coaches.
Another important development in expanding
statewide coverage is the addition of former
Department of Nebraska Activities Director Jody
Moeller to the BaseballNebraska team.
Moeller, who is located in Shelton, will be the
Statewide Coordinator for Classes B and C and
will offer assistance in getting new teams in
those classes up and running on the new Network.
Teams that wish to participate in the
BaseballNebraska Network are invited to sign up
prior to April 1. To do so, click on the
"More Information" link below. There is a
$50 per team registration fee that can be offset
by the sale of banner advertising on the team
websites.
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Benson Baseball
To Host Golf Fundraiser in May
February 19, 2010 |
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Baseball will celebrate the end of the spring
baseball season with a 4-person scramble golf
outing at The Knolls in Omaha on Saturday, May
22nd. The State Tournament wraps up on
Thursday of that week. Participants are
reminded that the balls will be hit golf clubs
rather than baseball bats and that cleats are
not allowed on the course.
Register by May 19th.
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Prep's Pritchard
Picked for Pre-Season All-American First Team; Bass Honored
February 18, 2010 |
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Mike
Pritchard
Creighton
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Brett
Bass
Millard
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Creighton Prep senior outfielder Mike Pritchard
has been selected to Collegiate Baseball
Newspaper's High School Pre-Season All-American
First Team. The publication also bestowed
All-American Honorable Mention honors on Millard
West senior infielder Brett Bass and identified
several other top in-state prospects.
Pritchard, a
Husker recruit, has been a varsity starter at
Prep since his sophomore season and bats and
throws from the left side. As a junior in 2009
he set a new single season home run record at
Prep with eight roundtrippers. He helped
the Junior Bluejays to a runner-up finish in the
spring state tournament, leading the team in
batting average (.450), slugging percentage
(.860), RBI's (49) and home runs and was
selected to the All-Nebraska and Super-State
First Team. During the 2009 American Legion
season he was again the top hitter on Prep's PI
Midwest Legion team with a .407 average, a .485
on-base percentage, a .757 slugging percentage
and 57 hits -- all tops on the team. He also
drove in 38 runs, stroked fifteen doubles,
scored 40 runs and hit five triples and eight
home runs on the summer to help lead PI Midwest
to a runner-up finish in the National Division
State Tournament.
Bass set a new
school record at Millard West for single season
batting average (.488) last spring, breaking the
record held by Jake Dugger while earning Second
Team All-Nebraska and Super-State honors.
During the summer he was among the state leaders
in several offensive categories, including
batting average (.426), hits (60), doubles (21),
triples (5), RBI (56) and runs (48), while
helping the NP Dodge team to a state runner-up
finish and a trip to the Region 4 Mid-South
Regional Tournament. Brett has recently
announced that he has verbally committed to
Creighton University and will be in the first
incoming class that will play home games for the
Bluejays at the new Ameritrade Park Omaha.
Like Pritchard, Bass is a left-handed hitter.
He is primarily an infielder for the Wildcats
but has also seen some outfield duty.
Also recognized by
Collegiate Baseball as top Nebraska prospects
are a pair of Millard West pitchers,
right-hander AJ Ladwig and lefty Tyler Ware,
reigning Gatorade Player of the Year Logan
Ehlers, a left-handed pitcher for Nebraska City,
Papillion-LaVista South infielder Bo Suponchick,
Millard North infielder Casey Gillaspie,
Westside infielder Dan Dunn, designated hitter
JD Urban of Omaha Bryan, outfielder Joey Jones
of Papillion-LaVista and Lincoln Southwest
infielder Taylor Anderson.
The publication
also publishes an annual pre-season Top 30 list
of teams from around the nation. No
Nebraska teams were included this year.
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Five Metro Legion
Teams Submit Joint Bid to Host Regionals
February 18, 2010 |
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group of five Omaha baseball programs have pooled their
resources to submit a joint bid to host the American Legion
Region 6 Central Plains Regional Tournament in
2011 and 2012. The bid was submitted in late January
to the national American Legion office in Indianapolis which
will announce the tournament host in May.
The American Legion sponsors eight eight-team Regional
Tournaments nationwide with the champion of each advancing
to the American Legion World Series. Each year
Nebraska sends two teams -- the State Champion and the State
Runner-up -- to Regional Tournament competition. In
August 2010, the State Champion will play in the Central
Plains - Region 6 Regional Tournament in Blue Springs, MO,
and the State Runner-Up will go to the Mid-South - Region 4
Regional Tournament in Grand Prairie, TX.
Beginning in 2011, both Nebraska teams will play in the Region 6 Central
Plains Tournament due to realignment of regional competition. And, if Nebraska wins the bid to
host the tournament, a third Nebraska team will play as the
host team in the 2011 and 2012 tournaments, giving in-state
teams a 3-in-8 chance of reaching the World Series.
The number of local teams in the tournament should also
boost attendance for the event.
The five participating programs in the joint Regional
Tournament bid are Westside, Millard West, Omaha South,
Omaha Skutt and Elkhorn. One of those teams will
qualify on the basis of mutually-selected competitive
criteria to play as the host team in the tournament in 2011
with the same process being used to select the 2012 host
team. The programs in the host team pool have formed a
tax-exempt, non-profit corporation that will manage and
operate the tournament. Retired Elkhorn head coach
Jerry Frerichs has been selected as the Local Chairperson
for the tournament and serves as president of the
organization.
The proposed tournament sites are Frerichs Legion Field in
Elkhorn for 2011 and Millard West High School for 2012.
The championship games each year would be played at the
Sarpy Ballpark currently under construction as the new
home of the Omaha Royals.
The bid will be awarded for a two-year period with the
possibility that it could be extended indefinitely.
The other teams that would participate in the double-
elimination tournament are from Minnesota (2 teams), Iowa,
North Dakota and South Dakota. The last Regional Tournament
in Nebraska was held at Omaha's Seymour Smith Field in 2002.
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