Is anyone attending the tournament this coming weekend. Let me know, would love to meet fellow HSBBW people
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The team is rolling..
Reviewing the JC boxes, the Boy is simply excelling in all aspects of the game...
The next destination (USF) is headed for the regionals...or maybe Omaha...
Life is Grand, there kjktj, 'aint it!
Go get a title!
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The team is rolling..
Reviewing the JC boxes, the Boy is simply excelling in all aspects of the game...
The next destination (USF) is headed for the regionals...or maybe Omaha...
Life is Grand, there kjktj, 'aint it!
Go get a title!
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Thanks, The team is really excited. The last game in the regional, we were down 8 to 2 in the 5th and ended up winning on a squeeze play in the bottom of the 11th. I know that win or lose, the kids will leave everything they got on the field. I am looking forward to a greeat weekend. Even in Fresno. 
kjktj ...
Umm err ... isn't that an oxymoron? 
Best wishes for a great week-end ... bring it home to So Cal
quote:I am looking forward to a greeat weekend. Even in Fresno.
Umm err ... isn't that an oxymoron? Best wishes for a great week-end ... bring it home to So Cal
I couldn't understand why a hotel room was such a precious commidity in Fresno. Granted a long weekend and the Gateway to Yosemite, but there is also the WAC Championship Tournament at Fresno State and the NAIA Track Championship at Fresno Pacific. Who knew Freesno was such a desired location. I do know that they support their home teams. Go Long Beach!
Long Beach brigns the Calif JC State Championship home!!!!
Article Launched: 05/30/2006 12:00:00 AM PDT
LBCC wins title as Serrato delivers in agony
By David Felton, Staff writer
FRESNO — Freshman pitcher Randy Serrato literally gave everything he had to his Long Beach City College teammates Monday. And they returned the favor.
The Vikings, led by five pain-filled innings from Serrato and an Albert Pujols-like effort from shortstop Jovanny Bramasco, claimed the COA Baseball Championship at Fresno City College with an 8-1 victory over a very tough squad from Sacramento City.
Serrato pitched perhaps the most important five innings of the season for LBCC. Sacramento knocked three Viking pitchers around the yard in Monday's first game, a 12-4 rout that forced a second-and-deciding contest. Despite suffering from painful cramps from the very first inning, Serrato gave LBCC the strong starting performance it needed, allowing just five hits and one run. The right-hander went out to start the sixth but couldn't even stand up on the mound.
"I was cramping all over the place, all over my body," said Serrato, who hadn't pitched since April 25. "I didn't let anybody know (I was hurt) until the fourth when it really started hurting.
"I wanted to stay in the game," he added from the dugout while wrapped in bags of ice, unable to join his teammates as they lined up for their championship medals. "I didn't get that many chances to pitch this year."
Indeed, Serrato started just six games this year and appeared in only 11. But he finished with a 4-2 record and an ERA under 3.50.
"Randy's a tough kid," said LBCC coach Casey Crook. "He toughed out five innings for us and we needed it."
"(Serrato) was a warrior," said freshman catcher Derek Junghanel. "We didn't know how long he could go, but he gave us five."
Sophomore closer Shane Minor pitched the final four scoreless innings for his 19th save of the year.
Bramasco went 4 for 5 with four RBI and his third home run of the tournament and was an easy selection as MVP. In four games in Fresno, the sophomore went 8 for 17 with eight RBI.
Asked if he'd ever had a better series, Bramasco said never like this.
"I felt real good at the plate, real good," he said.
"He rose to the occasion," said Crook. "He saves his best for last. I don't know how many cliches I can use, but he was definitely
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the player of the tournament, definitely."
The Vikings (41-10) took a 2-0 lead in the second inning on Bramasco's homer and an RBI groundout by Ryan Averkieff. They extended the lead to 4-0 in the third on a two-run double by Bramasco and put the game away in the sixth with three more runs.
Averkieff's second RBI gave LBCC a 5-1 lead and Chris Cordova followed with a two-run single. Cordova, a freshman center fielder from Lakewood High, had eight RBI in the tournament from his No. 9 slot in the lineup, including a solo home run in Monday's first game.
"This is awesome," Cordova said. "I've never won anything this big before."
Averkieff went 7 for 16 with four runs and two RBI in four games and Junghanel went 6 for 14 with an RBI and five runs.
In the first game, LBCC took a 3-0 lead on Sacramento starter Corey Weglin in the second inning. But the Panthers (29-22) responded with six runs off Viking starter Steve Conradi (8-2) in the fourth and added another run in the fifth.
It was Conradi's second rough start in a row. Reliever Xavier Munoz was roughed up for five runs in 2 2/3 innings.
However, Cordova said the Vikings were ready to play following the loss, which snapped a 13-game winning streak.
"They hadn't won anything at that point," said Cordova. "We never gave up once."
The title is LBCC's first since 1976 and its fifth overall. The man who guided the Vikings to that title, Bob Myers, was on the field Monday as one of Crook's assistant coaches.
"It means everything," said Crook, in his 13th year as coach of the Vikings. "It's what you're trying to do every year.
"It's not a personal thing, though," Crook added. "This is the best coaching staff and best group of players I've ever had. I don't know how much credit a head coach can take."
Article Launched: 05/30/2006 12:00:00 AM PDT
LBCC wins title as Serrato delivers in agony
By David Felton, Staff writer
FRESNO — Freshman pitcher Randy Serrato literally gave everything he had to his Long Beach City College teammates Monday. And they returned the favor.
The Vikings, led by five pain-filled innings from Serrato and an Albert Pujols-like effort from shortstop Jovanny Bramasco, claimed the COA Baseball Championship at Fresno City College with an 8-1 victory over a very tough squad from Sacramento City.
Serrato pitched perhaps the most important five innings of the season for LBCC. Sacramento knocked three Viking pitchers around the yard in Monday's first game, a 12-4 rout that forced a second-and-deciding contest. Despite suffering from painful cramps from the very first inning, Serrato gave LBCC the strong starting performance it needed, allowing just five hits and one run. The right-hander went out to start the sixth but couldn't even stand up on the mound.
"I was cramping all over the place, all over my body," said Serrato, who hadn't pitched since April 25. "I didn't let anybody know (I was hurt) until the fourth when it really started hurting.
"I wanted to stay in the game," he added from the dugout while wrapped in bags of ice, unable to join his teammates as they lined up for their championship medals. "I didn't get that many chances to pitch this year."
Indeed, Serrato started just six games this year and appeared in only 11. But he finished with a 4-2 record and an ERA under 3.50.
"Randy's a tough kid," said LBCC coach Casey Crook. "He toughed out five innings for us and we needed it."
"(Serrato) was a warrior," said freshman catcher Derek Junghanel. "We didn't know how long he could go, but he gave us five."
Sophomore closer Shane Minor pitched the final four scoreless innings for his 19th save of the year.
Bramasco went 4 for 5 with four RBI and his third home run of the tournament and was an easy selection as MVP. In four games in Fresno, the sophomore went 8 for 17 with eight RBI.
Asked if he'd ever had a better series, Bramasco said never like this.
"I felt real good at the plate, real good," he said.
"He rose to the occasion," said Crook. "He saves his best for last. I don't know how many cliches I can use, but he was definitely
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the player of the tournament, definitely."
The Vikings (41-10) took a 2-0 lead in the second inning on Bramasco's homer and an RBI groundout by Ryan Averkieff. They extended the lead to 4-0 in the third on a two-run double by Bramasco and put the game away in the sixth with three more runs.
Averkieff's second RBI gave LBCC a 5-1 lead and Chris Cordova followed with a two-run single. Cordova, a freshman center fielder from Lakewood High, had eight RBI in the tournament from his No. 9 slot in the lineup, including a solo home run in Monday's first game.
"This is awesome," Cordova said. "I've never won anything this big before."
Averkieff went 7 for 16 with four runs and two RBI in four games and Junghanel went 6 for 14 with an RBI and five runs.
In the first game, LBCC took a 3-0 lead on Sacramento starter Corey Weglin in the second inning. But the Panthers (29-22) responded with six runs off Viking starter Steve Conradi (8-2) in the fourth and added another run in the fifth.
It was Conradi's second rough start in a row. Reliever Xavier Munoz was roughed up for five runs in 2 2/3 innings.
However, Cordova said the Vikings were ready to play following the loss, which snapped a 13-game winning streak.
"They hadn't won anything at that point," said Cordova. "We never gave up once."
The title is LBCC's first since 1976 and its fifth overall. The man who guided the Vikings to that title, Bob Myers, was on the field Monday as one of Crook's assistant coaches.
"It means everything," said Crook, in his 13th year as coach of the Vikings. "It's what you're trying to do every year.
"It's not a personal thing, though," Crook added. "This is the best coaching staff and best group of players I've ever had. I don't know how much credit a head coach can take."
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kjktj..
This is some accomplishment! Congrats. Your young man goes out with a state title...what a way to start the summer...and his USF career...and Big things to come...
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kjktj..
This is some accomplishment! Congrats. Your young man goes out with a state title...what a way to start the summer...and his USF career...and Big things to come...
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Thank you. It was a lot of fun. The whole team was amazing. While my son didn't have a great tournament, his season was all any one could ask for. The futrue is bright.
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kjktj...
It takes a team for sure. I am sure that his contributions were large and based upon his stats, and the strong interest of USF, it was in great part through his efforts that they were there at all.
Again congrats!
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kjktj...
It takes a team for sure. I am sure that his contributions were large and based upon his stats, and the strong interest of USF, it was in great part through his efforts that they were there at all.
Again congrats!
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