Looking for players to go to the WWBA Underclass World Championship

The response has been pretty good. We will definately need more pitchers if we are going to make the trip. If you are interested, please contact me.

I would like to publicly thank Steve Trombly and his team for a great weekend of baseball in Ft. Myers. We hooked up with them just for the weekend and could not have asked for a better experience. Both the coaches and the team parents treated us wonderfully.

We had an opportunity to catch an earlier flight after dropping a playoff game, and had to bolt rather suddenly to catch the plane. So I hope Steve will pass our thanks on to everyone we didn't really get to say good-bye to.

Overall it was a very successful trip for us. We finished 3-1 and outscored our opponents 33-8.

We dominated our Pool and went into the playoffs as the #2 seed out of 52 teams.

Our pitchers did an outstanding job. They combined to pitch 25 Innings and only allowed 8 runs on 13 hits and they struck out 37.

Daniel Marrs is the #10 ranked player in the country for the '08 class. He showed why as he dominated on the mound and did a great job at the plate too. On the mound he hit 93 MPH and pitched 6 innings and allowed 1 run on 2 hits while striking out 9. At the plate he went 4 for 7 (.571 AVG) w/ a 3B, 2 2B's, and 5 RBI.

Brooks Pounders is the #2 ranked player in CA in the '08 class (behind Temecula Valley teamate Tony Calhoun). The 6'4/210 lbs sophmore showed that he also is a 2 way threat. At the plate he went 3 for 10 (.300 AVG) w/ 3 RBI, 3 BB's, and scored 5 runs. On the mound he hit 88 mph and pitched 5 Innings and allowed 2 runs (1 earned) on 2 hits. Pounders struck out 9 and walked 2.

Gray Carden-RHP/OF ('08 Leesburg) threw a NO HITTER. Carden lives in Georgia, but came out to California this past summer to play for our program. He did a very well and we were excited to have him join us in Florida. He pitched 5 innings and gave up 0 runs on 0 hits to go along with 6 K's.

Kevin Chambers-LHP/OF ('09 Capo Valley) also showed that he is one of the best players in the country for the '09 class. He pitched 3 perfect innings in our opening game. He allowed no runs/hits/walk/baserunners to go along with 6 K's. At the plate Chambers went 3 for 6 (.500) w/ 3 RBI, 2 BB's and a HBP.

Ronnie Shaeffer-C ('08 Pacifica) did a great job for us behind the plate. Offensively he went 5 for 12 (.417 AVG) and had at least 1 hit in every game. Shaeffer also had a 2B, 6 RBI, and scored 3 runs.

Derek Waldron-OF ('08 Canyon) also had a good tournament. This was his 1st wood bat event and he went 4 for 10 (.400 AVG) w/ a 2B, HBP, 3 RBI and scored 4 runs.