Beach Blast

Here's a few to start:

Princess Anne (beach)
Maury (norfolk)
Lake Taylor (norfolk)
Hanover (richmond)
Haymarket (northern va)
Hickory (chesapeake)
Kellam (beach)
First Colonial (beach)
Lake Braddock (northern va)

and many more...

should be a great week of baseball!

Also, Landstown's tournament will include Jefferson Forest, Hanover and Indian River.

Just a slight correction:

The Northern Virginia team you're referring to is Hayfield, not Haymarket.

Hoping for warm and dry weather down there next week for the Beach Blast.

Ocean Lakes Schedule:
All games played at OLHS

Monday April 18, 3:00 PM vs Lake Braddock Home*

Tuesday April 19, 10:00 AM vs Granby Home*

Tuesday April 19, 1:00 PM vs Gates-Chili (NY) Home*

Wednesday April 20, 3:00 PM vs TBA Home*


I'd say OL may try to play the other NOVA team or Hanover from Richmond... Looks like a good week though.

FC vs. Lake Taylor 2pm Monday
FC vs. Lake Braddock 10am Tuesday
FC vs. Hayfield 3pm Tuesday
FC vs. TBD 3pm Wednesday

All the games are at First Colonial's great newly renovated stadium (if you haven't seen the renovations....they are first class).

Lake Braddock and Hayfield are really highly rated teams from NOVA. Lake Taylor has started strong in the Eastern. Should be a fun week of baseball.

VB... Any way you can post pics or shoot me a link to some of the new stadium? I'd love to see since I'm never in town. They always had a great field grass and playing condition wise, but I could never get over the square lot fencing haha.

Need some help from you folks up in NOVA. Doesn't Lake Braddock have a fine, young LHP that played for the Stars showcase travel team ? Now that would be worth the price of admission to see him vs. Morinmando on Monday @ OL !!!

Lake Braddock does have have a good lefty pitcher (Thomas Rogers) who is a sophomore this year. I believe he pitched last summer/fall with the 16u Canes but not positive. LB has district games tonight and tomorrow night so not sure how the pitching will unfold.

Speaking of good pitching matchups...I believe Mr. Mordimondo is facing off against Mr. Tomchick (Princess Anne) today @ Ocean Lakes...That should be fun to watch! better get there early as I'm predicting a rather quick game

I think Lemasters, Radford, is on the bump for PA,that's going to be a great game

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Originally posted by Diamond Stalker:
Does anyone have the schedule or list of teams for the Beach Blast next week?

BEACH BLAST TOURNAMENT:

Monday 4/18 games (by site)
At Kellam--10 am Maury @ Kellam
At Kempsville--10 am Gates-Chili (NY) @ Kempsville/ 3 pm Hayfield @ Kempsville
At Salem—10 am Lake Taylor @ Salem/ 3 pm Gates-Chili (NY) @ Salem
At Green Run—10 am Hayfield @ Green Run/ 1 pm Granby @ Green Run
At Tallwood—12 noon Indian River @ Tallwood/ 3 pm Maury @ Tallwood
At Ocean Lakes—3 pm Lake Braddock @ Ocean Lakes
At First Colonial—3 pm Lake Taylor @ First Colonial
At Princess Anne—3 pm Hanover @ Princess Anne
At Landstown—3 pm Jefferson Forest @ Landstown


Tuesday 4/19 games (by site)
At Landstown--10 am Hanover @ Landstown/ 1 pm Indian River @ Landstown
At Kempsville--3 pm Granby @ Kempsvile
At Salem—10 am Hayfield @ Salem
At Green Run—3 pm Lake Taylor @ Green Run
At Tallwood—10 am Jefferson Forest @ Tallwood
At Ocean Lakes—10 am Granby @ Ocean Lakes/ 1pm Gates-Chili @ Ocean Lakes
At First Colonial—10 am Lake Braddock @ First Colonial/3 pm Hayfield @ FC
At Princess Anne—12 noon Maury @ Princess Anne/3 pm Jefferson Forest @ PA
At Kellam—12 noon Hickory @ Kellam/ 3 pm Hanover @ Kellam


Wednesday 4/20 games ---ALL Beach teams will host a game against an opponent tba based upon the results of Monday and Tuesday--- all games Wed. at 3 pm.

Follow this link for pictures of the FC Stadium:
http://www.facebook.com/album....4395830&l=5b909701be

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Originally posted by cjb0811:
VB... Any way you can post pics or shoot me a link to some of the new stadium? I'd love to see since I'm never in town. They always had a great field grass and playing condition wise, but I could never get over the square lot fencing haha.

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Originally posted by golfball:
...I believe he pitched last summer/fall with the 16u Canes but not positive...

Yes, he did. He will play for the Canes again this summer/fall.

I know everyone is looking forward for some good match ups this spring break, but lets remember, these games mean nothing so I suspect coaches will use these games to get some playing time for youngsters and give the pitching staff a break and develop some guys who'll pitch in the next few years, I think FC will use as many as 4 sophomores on the mound this week. Good luck to everyone, play hard and have fun.

The weather forecast is looking good! It should be fun.

Anyone have an update on the scores?

First Colonial - 8
Lake Taylor - 3

WP - David Berman

TJ Costen was 2/2 and scored 3 runs.

FC 8, Lake Taylor 3, Berman thru 4 good innings, a few runs were off errors, Sophmore Daniel Rienerth thru last 3 innings, Costen made several good plays at SS, Frehsman Joey Brown had 2 hits, Costen had several hits,1 was a bomb to deep center into a 30mph wind, Rienerth, Senior, had 3 rbi's, just good steady baseball,

Jefferson Forest - 10
Landstown - 1

JF used seven pitchers, one per inning. (Got this out of our local paper. Wasn't at the game.)

Kellam 2-1 over Maury in 8 innings

From this morning:

Jefferson Forest - 9
Tallwood - 1

Maybe JF will get some competition in the game this afternoon against Princess Anne. Just wish RHP would text his mom instead having to text one of the parents that went with the team.

Ocean Lakes wins 7-6 vs Granby and 15-0 vs Gates-Chili.

Hickory defeats Kellam 3-2.
Winning pitcher - Blake
Matt Campbell closed in the 7th.

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Originally posted by VaRHPmom:

Maybe JF will get some competition in the game this afternoon against Princess Anne.

Heard Princess Anne won 11-1 or close to that.

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Originally posted by bball_lifer:

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Originally posted by VaRHPmom:

Maybe JF will get some competition in the game this afternoon against Princess Anne.

Heard Princess Anne won 11-1 or close to that.

Well she wanted some competition.

FC dropped 2 games, both were hard fault, lost 6 to 5 to Lake Braddock, 1 of Fc's top pitchers didn't have his best stuff, I think he hit 7 batters in the 1st game, he's never done that, EVER, lost 3 to 1 to Heyfield, Justin Keith from FC thru 6 good innings, didn't get any timely hits, both teams from NOVA were very sound, still good baseball, why is it alwyas windy at FC,?lol, brutal wind

Lake Braddock - 6
First Colonial - 5

WP - Thomas Rogers
LP - Michael Rienerth

Rogers pitched well holding FC to 6 hits and then his defense let him down in the 7th. Kinne came in for the final 2 outs. FC had it's chances and had a runner on 2nd when LB got the last out.

Rienerth had 2 hits and an RBI. Had a rough outing pitching but hung in for 4 1/3 without surrendering too much.

Keith and Orzell finished the game clean.

Hayfield - 3
First Colonial - 1

WP - #34 (name?)
LP - Justin Keith

Hayfield's pitcher was strong scattering 5 hits and giving up just 1 unearned run.
Justin Keith matched Hayfield for 5 innings, then the defense made a couple errors and Hayfield went up 3-1 after 6.
Jeff Orzell finished the game for FC.

A good game by two good teams.

#34 is Cory Spera

Actually, Princess Anne won 7-4. Wild first inning with 5 runs and then settled down into a game.

And yes, I did want the team to get some competition. No sense going all the way to Virginia Beach only to keep winning 10-1 and 9-1.

Sorry, got bum info I guess.

What you got was the score from the Princess Anne - Maury game.

No worries. It's just nice to see our "little" AA team hanging in there with the big boys.

Anyone got scores for today?

First Colonial - 5
Hickory - 3

WP - Ryan Cook

#16 (Name?) for Hickory hit two solo home runs to left-center against a sharp wind. First Colonial's TJ Costen was 2/2 with a double and scored 3 runs. Michael Rienerth had a double and 2 RBI.

16 is Matt Campbell

Jefferson Forest - 4
Kellam - 3

Ocean Lakes 4
Hayfield 3

Alex Lambert game winning hit in the bottom of the 8th. Shawn Morimando complete game win.

The best thing about the Beach Blast is that you get to see players from other districts that you either read or hear about, well today, FC had the chance to see UNC bound SS Matt Campbell from Hickory, and he didn't dissapoint. Campell hit 2 balls into a gale force wind for HomeRuns. 4 games were played at Fc this week and no one came close to a HR til Campbell today. If Campbell keeps this up, he'll by pass UNC and be drafted very high, he's that good. On a side note, How did the Big Blue that this local player get away??

Hey Weasel,

I can not guess why a kid would pick an ACC school over a CAA school. That is a shock to me!

So much for your theory of seeing a lot of other underclassmen pitching in the blast. I do agree, spring break is a great time to give other players who have committed to a program a chance to play. It appears that many coaches at the beach didn't see it that way. Great to see all of these other teams come into the beach and show them such good competition.

You all had a great few days of weather and a breeze. Have a great rest of the season!!