To All Who've Helped Us This Season (a group which includes the much-missed MaryAnn and JT):
Some News about us - Seoul American:
South Korea
DODDS-Korea Baseball League
Seoul American 7 1 .875
Daegu American 3 5 .375
Osan American 2 6 .250
Saturday’s summary
Seoul American 12, Osan American 0 (5)
At Yongsan Garrison
Osan..........000 00 —0
Seoul..........253 2x—12
W-Colton Heckerl, 5 IP, 2 H, 0 ER, 8 SO. Batting-Seoul, Ivan Montanez 3 RBI, Colton Heckerl 2 RBI, Alex Rinehart 2 RBI. Noteworthy-In weekend tri-meet with Osan and Daegu American, Seoul American outscored its opponents 27-0.
Friday’s summary
Seoul American 15, Daegu American 0 (5)
At Yongsan Garrison
Daegu..........000 00— 0
Seoul..........324 42x—15
W-Casey Donovan, 2 H, 0 ER, 12 SO. Batting-Seoul, Colton Heckerl 2-for-4, 4 RBI; Keegan Gibson 2-run HR; Ivan Montanez 2 RBI.
We absolutely demolished our conference opponents this weekend, outscoring them a combined 27 runs to NONE! We have been battling Daegu all season, very close games, and they even beat us once ---- but holy cow, we destroyed them 15-0 this time to clinch our conference.
On May 14th, we head to Tokyo for the big Pacific-wide tournament - TOO exciting! And then China the week after.
Here's another article from Stars and Stripes on this team that I am so proud of (and you can be, too!):
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Likewise, the Falcons baseball team is armed, literally, with what coach Bob Heckerl calls a seven-man pitching staff, which has paced Seoul American to a 7-1 mark, four games ahead of Daegu (3-5) with two weekends left. The Falcons won their first title since 2005 by virtue of an insurmountable head-to-head advantage over Osan and Daegu.
Freshman Casey Donovan and sophomore Colton Heckerl pitched the Falcons past Daegu 15-0 in five innings and Osan 12-0 in five, but the elder Heckerl says he has three others, including sophomores Jake Kail and Greg Morris, who "are interchangeable on any given day."
And all except Kail will be at Seoul American until they graduate. Coupled with solid hitting, Heckerl said it’s possible the Falcons can be a power for years to come.
"The one place where we haven’t been tested is our defense, because of our pitching," Heckerl said. "The ball’s being put in play maybe only four or five times a game."
That could present a problem for the Falcons, who travel to Camp Zama, Japan, for the Kanto Plain Invitational Tournament May 15-16.
"When we get to Japan, it’s going to be quite different. Our defense can’t fall into a sense of complacency based on what we’ve experienced in Korea. It will be a whole different ballgame," Heckerl said.
(sorry so long!!)
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