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The Webmaster's predictions for the 2008 season |
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Written by Administrator
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Thursday, 28 February 2008 02:49 |
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This year's Region I season (the last one under the current
playoff structure) starts February 29, with UBC at Corban, and Oregon
Tech at College of Idaho. Lewis-Clark State is hosting Gonzaga, and
Concordia-Portland plays home-and-home with Western Oregon.
Here's this year's obligatory predicted order of finish for NAIA
Region I:
Lewis-Clark State: The defending national champions
sent eight players to pro ball, but they should still be good enough
to repeat as Region I champions. The Warriors' offensive star this
year is Paul Martin, currently hitting .483. Their pitchers include
Matt Fitts, who was drafted last year, but chose to spend another
year in Lewiston, and Mike Guerrero. You can read L-C State's story
here.
U. of British Columbia: The Warriors will win the
pennant on consistency, but the Thunderbirds will improve over last
year, and they should be looking pretty good by the time that first
home game comes around on March 15. They already look good
defensively. Mike Styrna, Scott Webster, Ryan Pilgrim, and Alex
White are hitting the ball well. The Birds have some good returning
pitchers, Andrew LaFleur, Greg Chong, Kurtis Schumacher, and some
very good new ones, Ashton Florko, Josh Brink, and Taylor King. UBC
Athletics preview
College of Idaho: Like last year, the Thunderbirds and
the Coyotes should be a good matchup, but the Birds win out on
pitching. Their offensive returnees include Dane McGrady and Luke
Howarth. Their pitching staff includes two British Columbians,
Andrew Brock (Burnaby), and Jason Barry (Castlegar), but their best
guy is Joey Zubizarreta. Click here
for their season preview.
Concordia-Portland: The Cavaliers had huge graduation
losses, but once again, Coach Rob Vance has managed to recruit some
good pitchers. This year, it's Ross Conway and Brett Hawley. They've
also added a guy who can hit, Roberto Reyes of Monterrey, Mexico.
Corban: The Warriors have one of the youngest coaches
in college baseball, alum Nate Mayben, and he did OK last year. They
have RHP Jordan Emery back, and OF Jamie McGraw.
Oregon Tech: The Hustlin' Owls are 1-7 so far this
season. I don't see this trend changing.
Bonus predictions: Whoever wins Region I has to get past
the champion of the Golden State Athletic Conference (Region II) to
get to the NAIA championship tournament in Lewiston, ID. The GSAC is
a very competitive league. My choice is defending champion Azusa
Pacific, but The Master's might make a run at it.
After the super-regional, there's several viable contenders for
the national championship, including Lee, Azusa Pacific,
Lewis-Clark State, and Lubbock Christian. I picked
Oklahoma City in a column for The
College Baseball Blog in December. With the Stars currently at
15-1, I'm sticking with that prediction. Look at it this way;
Oklahoma City and Lubbock Christian are both in the same region, so
only one of them can make it to the national championship tournament.
The one that does should have the inside track.
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Indios del Bóer 6, Fieras del San Fernando 0 |
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Monday, 21 January 2008 08:00 |
 Rafael Garcia - Photo from La Prensa Bóer is the champion of the Nicaraguan Professional Baseball League for another year. San Fernando sent out their ace, Nicaraguan Diego Sandino, who was 10-0, 2.06 ERA during the regular season. He wasn't bad; Las Fieras trailed by only 4-0 when he left the game in the eighth inning. However, his team failed to solve Dominican Republican Rafael García, who allowed two hits in 7 2/3 innings.
Los Indios' winning run came in the fourth inning, when Clyde Williams (USA) reached base on a Texas League single, and was batted in by Manuel Mejía (Dominican Republic). They added three runs in the sixth on a double by catcher Marlon Abea. They added a pair of insurance runs in the top of the ninth, one of them on an RBI by Jimmy González.
SF´s Darío Delgado (DR) was hit by pitches from Garcia twice. He drew a walk in the bottom of the ninth, and was moved to third on a double by Anibal Vega (Nicaragua), but he was still on third when the game ended.
Abea, who hit .545 during the series, was named Most Valuable Player.
Story from La Prensa (en Español)
 Brian Rodaway I was able to talk to several players before and after the game. Jimmy Hurst played for the Winnipeg Goldeyes of the Northern League in 2006. I asked him how the Nicaraguan Professional Baseball League compared to independent leagues in terms of caliber of played. He said that it´s similar, but the Northern League is much better organized. He believes that umpiring in Nicaragua is "political". He came here because he played with Delgado for Atlantic City of the Atlantic League. He hopes to play in Mexico next winter.
Brian Rodaway, out of U. of Nebraska, started game 3 for Bóer. He had a very good season here, 6-1, 2.14 ERA. He came to Nicaragua because he was a teammate of Clyde Williams with an independent league team, and he "needed a job".
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Fieras del San Fernando 4, Indios del Bóer 3 |
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Saturday, 19 January 2008 08:14 |
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San Fernando tied the best-of-seven national championship series at two games apiece with a dramatic bottom-of-the-ninth finish.
 Roberto Clemente Stadium Today´s game was in Masaya, a city of 114,000 people best known for its market. Los Fieras´ home field is Roberto Clemente Stadium, and it´s very similar to Nat Bailey Stadium. It has a capacity of about 6,000, the foul lines are 310 feet, and a large foul territory on both the first- and third-base sides. The atmosphere was far more civilized than at Dennis Martinez National Stadium, and today´s crowd got to see an excellent contest.
The starters were Wilber Bucardo (Nicaragua) for Bóer, and Armando Hernández (from Masaya) for SF. Hernández had an excellent outing; he went 6 1/3 innings.
Bóer took the early lead with a sacrifice fly by Jorge Núñez (Dominican Republic) in the second inning. SF got on the board with a two-run home run by Marcos Sánchez (DR) in the fifth, and increased their lead with an RBI by Norman Cardoze (also from Masaya) in the sixth.
Bóer tied the game 3-3 in the top of the seventh, and that´s where it was going into the bottom of the ninth. Cardoze drew a walk, and Sánchez put down a good bunt. However, Bóer´s third baseman tried to go to second instead of first, and his throw was just a little bit late. The next batter, Eddy Talavera (Nicaragua) bunted, and the result was runners on second and third with one out. SF sent in a pinch hitter, Anibal Vega (Nicaragua), and he was intentionally walked to load the bases. The next batter, Víctor Gutiérrez (DR) hit a sacrifice fly to win the game. There was a good throw to the plate, however. I was sitting behind home plate, and I thought it got there in time. Predictably, so did Bóer´s players and coaches. Riot police were present.
(Replays on Nicaraguan TV showed that the runner was safe, and the umpire's call was correct.)
Story from
La Prensa (en Espanol)
I treated myself to a Toña beer. It cost 18 cordobas, or one dollar.
Now for today´s constructive advice to the Nicaraguan Professional Baseball League: I saw a kid selling cigarettes who couldn´t have been more than seven years old. (BAT, the company that sells Players and Du Maurier in Canada, has a major presence in Nicaragua, and their policy is, these kids are much more reliable than vending machines.) All of the major league teams banned smoking in their ballparks years ago. Do the same.
Fieras del San Fernando site
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Indios del Bóer 6, Fieras del San Fernando 5 |
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Written by Administrator
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Thursday, 17 January 2008 08:00 |
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I can´t remember the last time I went to a sports event where the crowd was this deafening. If I restrict this to outdoor events, the answer is "never".
The event happened at Dennis Martinez National Stadium in Managua, Nicaragua. This stadium holds 20,000 people, and about 18,000 were present for this game, which was the third game of the best-of-seven final of the Nicaraguan Professional Baseball League. Bóer won the first game, and San Fernando won the second.
 Dennis Martinez National Stadium Both teams had pep bands. San Fernando´s band played something recognizable as music, and, inexplicably, they played while their guys were at bat. As for Bóer´s band, all I can tell you is they started and stopped at the same time. Both teams had cheerleaders, and the ones for Bóer were equipped with rock-concert size amps. And yes, the "Los Indios" fans know about the tomahawk chop.
In addition, large numbers of fans were blowing police whistles, and if you forgot to bring one, there were vendors selling them. There were also vendors selling all sorts of food, including a sort of taco salad (it's called "boha") that looked healthy. There is Toña beer, which I´ve already developed a taste for. You have to pay to use the washrooms, but I don´t know yet whether this results in cleanliness.
There was a ball game going on, too, and it would be a mistake to say that this is like European soccer matches, where much of the crowd is indifferent to what´s happening on the field. They saw a good game, although there were some fielding miscues in the early going. It appeared that the crowd noise was making it difficult for the players to communicate with each other, but the not-very-good lighting could also have been a factor.
Both starters were chased early. The SF starter was Willy Lebrón of the Dominican Republic, and he was gone before the second inning was over, after Bóer went up 2-0. The Bóer starter was Brian Rodaway, who played for the U. of Nebraska, then spent five years in the minors. Rodaway came in with very good numbers: 6-1, 2.14 ERA. He held Los Fieras hitless for the first two inning, but in the third inning, Los Fieros got five runs, with an RBI by Eddy Talavera (Granada), another by Ofilio Castro (Nicaragua), a two-RBI double by Danilo Sotelo (also from Nicaragua), and another by
Darío Delgado (Dominican Republic).
Those were all the runs SF got. Bóer got a run back in the fourth, and tied it with two runs in the sixth. The winning run came in the eighth. Clyde Williams, who was in the Expos/Nationals organization for seven years, hit what should have been a double-play ball with one out. The throw to first was late, however, and this allowed a baserunner to score from third. SF got the tying run on first with one out, but a line drive by Jimmy Hurst to first resulted in a game-ending double play. (Hurst had a cup of coffee with the Tigers in 1997, also played in Japan and for the Winnipeg Goldeyes.)
Now, an editorial comment for anyone in Nicaragua who might read this: I´m OK with the pep bands and the cheerleaders, but lose the police whistles. They add nothing whatsoever to the enjoyment of the game, and they are irritating.
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Wait until next year (vol. III) |
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Written by Administrator
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Saturday, 26 May 2007 03:19 |
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Those of us who are passengers on the Thunderbird bandwagon had
gotten used to the idea of extended post-season play, so it came as a
shock when the result of the last two games of this season was two
losses, nine hits, and only three runs scored. These two losses came
against Jason Roach of Albertson and Bryan Goff of
Concordia-Portland, who the Thunderbirds had trouble hitting all
season.
The results would have been somewhat different had these two games
been played in Vancouver instead of Caldwell, ID, keeping in mind
that Roach was responsible for UBC's only loss at Nat Bailey Stadium
this year. Now, why were these games played in Caldwell instead of
Vancouver, when UBC finished two games ahead of Albertson during the
regular season? That's a topic for some serious off-season
discussion, and my well-considered opinion is that the NAIA's entire
setup for qualification for the national tournament needs a drastic
overhaul. For right now, though, the end-of-season Region I politics
wouldn't have mattered if the Thunderbirds hadn't lost those two
games at Oregon Tech.
Let's give that series in Klamath Falls some more scrutiny. The
Hustlin' Owls didn't have much of a ball team this year. What they
had, though, were several seniors who were playing the last college
baseball games of their lives, and a coach who was a few days away
from getting fired.
Next year, there will be other opposing players who make their
best efforts against the Thunderbirds, and other opposing coaches
with their jobs on the line. In response, five of the Thunderbirds'
top six hitters, Nic Lendvoy, Fletcher Vynne, Sammie Starr, Craig
Leebosh, and Jon Syrnyk, will probably be back next year. Of this
group, Lendvoy and Starr will be sophomores. and Leebosh and Syrnyk
will be juniors.
As for pitching, Doug Grant has finished an excellent career, and
Brendan Rolfe, who was great this year, will be gone. Everyone else
(Andrew LaFleur, Kurtis Schumacher, Scott Webster, and Greg Chong, to
name four) will keep getting better, and Mark Hardy, who will be a
sophomore, shows particular promise; all he has to do is pitch as
well against everyone as he did against Lewis-Clark State. (Webster,
who had two home runs, should also continue to improve at the plate.)
The people who came out to see the Birds on a regular basis this year
will tell you that this team improved with every passing week, and
there's no reason why that shouldn't carry over into next season.
And that's not all: UBC had another great recruiting year, to go
along with the one they had last year. Watch this space for more on
this in the preview of the MLB draft which happens on June 7.
Now for a look at changes to the record book. Jon Syrnyk didn't
just set a school record with eight triples; he tied a record for all
of college baseball with three triples in a game. Matt Chester now
holds the record for fielding percentage: 1.000. The 12 runs scored
in an inning against Albertson is a record. Brett Murray had six
saves, which ties him with Cory Stuart and Joey Benda. (I'm sure
I've missed one or two here; just drop me a note and let me know.)
And now for the defining moment
of the 2007 season. It came in the ninth inning of the first home
game of the season, against Lewis-Clark State on March 20. None of
the Birds' starters were available because this game was on a
Tuesday, and they had pitched the previous weekend against Concordia.
So, Mark Hardy started, and the game was pitched by a committee of
Hardy, Greg Chong, Kurtis Schumacher, Andrew LaFleur, and Brett
Murray. They held the Warriors to one earned run, and the Birds went
into the eighth inning with a 2-1 lead. The Warriors tied it in the
top of the eighth, but the Birds answered with a huge three-RBI
double by Jon Syrnyk. The atmosphere in Nat Bailey Stadium turned
electric: We can win this thing. In the top of the ninth, the
Warriors get a couple of baserunners on an error and a walk. Are the
wheels coming off? No, Beau Mills hit into a double play, and
finishes 0-5. One out left. Jessie Mier hits an RBI single. Paul
Martin hit a ground ball to Sammie Starr at second base. Starr looked
a little shaky when he fielded it, but he managed to get the ball to
Ted Wilkie covering second for the force. Game over. The
Thunderbirds would eventually split the season series with L-C State
with two games apiece. The only previous UBC team to do this well
against the Warriors was the 2002 team with Jeff Francis and Brooks
McNiven, who won the season series two games to one.
Some words about opponents: UC Riverside won the Big West Conference championship. Pacific Lutheran won the Northwest Conference championship. This was their first conference championship in baseball since 1954. They acquitted themselves well at the regional tournament; they won the first three games, including one over Chapman, but Chapman won two must-win games against the Lutes to win the tournament. George Fox got an at-large bid, but they went two-and-out.
Poll result: Defensively, the Thunderbirds are:
- Better than last year: 49 votes
- Not as good as last year: 46 votes
- About the same as last year: 14 votes
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UBC 8, Corban 0; UBC 8, Corban 1 |
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Written by Administrator
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Saturday, 14 April 2007 06:18 |
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First game: Jon Syrnyk hit three triples, and Doug Grant, Scott Webster, and Kurtis Schumacher combined for a two-hit shutout. All three of Syrnyk's triples were hit deep in center-right field. His performance ties an NAIA record, held by eight other players. The Thunderbirds scored in every inning except the sixth. They did the most damage in the third; Syrnyk scored on a wild pitch, Fletcher Vynne batted in a run, then scored when he was walked in. Jason Braun took the loss for the Warriors, who have been shut out in three straight Region I games. Box score and play-by-play Second game: This one would have been a lot closer had it not been for several excellent defensive plays by the Thunderbirds. In the first inning, Nic Lendvoy made a good catch of a foul ball in left field. In the fourth inning, Matt Chester, playing first base, made a great diving catch of a foul ball hit by Doug Gausepohl near the wall on the first base side. Then, Lendvoy made a good throw to catch a runner at the plate. In the seventh, Jeremy Frantz was thrown out trying to stretch a single into a double. The Thunderbirds had double plays in the third and sixth innings. In the eighth, a double play was bungled when a toss by Sammie Starr at second base went astray. However, Ted Wilkie, Starr, and Chester completed a double play on the next batter. The big inning this time was a five-run second. The first run was walked in when Lendvoy was hit by a pitch. The second one came in when Brett Murray reached on an error. Then, Fletcher Vynne cleared the bases with a double. Brendan Rolfe got the start, went five innings, and gave up the only Warrior run. Mark Hardy pitched the sixth through eighth innings, and Kurtis Schumacher pitched the ninth. Hardy allowed only two hits. Scott Fitchett pitched a complete game in a losing cause. Box score and play-by-play Syrnyk and Vynne were both 5-7 for the day. Story from UBC Athletics site: Syrnyk, Vynne big in wins |
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UBC 5, Lewis-Clark State 3 |
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Tuesday, 20 March 2007 07:36 |
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The Thunderbirds handed defending NAIA champion Lewis-Clark State their second loss of the season, and their first Region I loss in a very long time. The winning runs were driven in by Jon Syrnyk with a grand slam double in the eighth inning. However, the big story here was the performance of the five Thunderird pitchers who combined for the win; Mark Hardy, Greg Chong, Kurtis Schumacher, Andrew LaFleur, and Brett Murray. Hardy and Chong were especially sharp, holding the Warriors hitless for the first four innings. The "committee" did an especially good job on Warrior star Beau Mills. He was 0-5, hit into two double plays, and hit into a ground out with the bases loaded. The Thunderbirds took the early lead with an RBI single by Brendan Kornberger in the first inning, and an RBI single by Craig Leebosh in the second. They had a scoring threat in the third cancelled when Sammie Starr, courtesy running for Kornberger, was picked off first base. The Warriors got on the board in the sixth with an RBI single by Zach Evangelho. They tied it in the top of the eighth with an RBI single by Jesse Roehl. They got one more on the ninth on an RBI single by Jesse Mier. Brett Murray got the first win of his career, which follows three saves over the last week and a half. Will Morgan, who had an ERA of 0.00 prior to today, got the loss for the Warriors. Box score and play-by-play Story from UBC Athletics site: T-Birds knock off top-ranked Warriors Story from Lewis-Clark State site: LCSC baseball team falls 5-3 to UBC Story from the Vancouver Sun: Home cooking for the 'Birds Comments (0) | Add as favourites (22) | Views: 1641
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The Webmaster's predictions for the 2007 season |
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Thursday, 01 March 2007 09:59 |
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This year's Region I season starts March 2, with Corban at
Albertson, and Oregon Tech at Concordia-Portland. Lewis-Clark State
is hosting their annual Banana Belt Tournament, which has a field of
Division I teams.
I'm one of those people known as pundits, and pundits are
expected to make predictions. So, here's my obligatory predicted
order of finish for NAIA Region I:
Lewis-Clark State: Sorry, Thunderbird fans, but I'm
predicting that the Warriors will not only win Region I (which, with
the NAIA's new qualification rules, excludes UBC from making a
return visit to the national championship tournament), but they will
repeat as NAIA national champions.
Beau Mills, a transfer from Division I Fresno State, is currently
hitting .500, and already has four home runs. He's expected to be a
very high draft pick, so the good news is, he's only going to be at
L-C State for one season.
I could go on for a while here. They have several more players
who can hit, and for pitching, they have Chris Kissock of Fruitvale,
BC, Will Morgan, and Brian Parker. You can read L-C State's version
here.
Concordia-Portland: The Cavaliers' record is only 1-4,
but that includes two low-scoring losses to Division I U. of
Portland, and another low-scoring loss to a good Division II Western
Oregon team. The message here is simple: they will have trouble
scoring runs, but with Jason Grisham, Bryan Goff, Kyle Corwin, and
Ben Rue, they have starting pitchers who can get the job done, and
good pitching generally beats good hitting. Offensively, the
Cavaliers have James Mannion back from last year.
U. of British Columbia: Yes, we knew that a lot of
players graduated last year. We didn't know that Shawn Schaefer and
Joey Benda weren't coming back. Brendan Kornberger is back behind
the plate, and playing very well. Nik Lendvoy, who had limited
playing time last year, is hitting well. The Thunderbirds have a lot
of good new guys, and Sammie Starr has been impressive in the early
going. The only returning starter, Doug Grant, looks even better
than last year. It's going to take a while for the rest of the
pitching staff to develop, but returnees Andrew LaFleur and Brendan
Rolfe have looked good so far.
Albertson: The Thunderbirds and the Coyotes should be
a good matchup this year. They have a good crop of returnees,
including starter Jason Roach, reliever Joey Zubizarreta, and
infielders Casey Oliver and Dane McGrady.
Corban: The Warriors were pretty good toward the end
of last season, but their coach moved on to Division I. They should
have enough pitching, with Jordan Emery, Scott Fitchett, Zeke
Clayton, and Brett Timmerman, to be competitive with UBC and
Albertson. Like Albertson, they have a good crop of returnees,
including Ryan Heil and Jeremy Frantz.
Oregon Tech: The Hustlin' Owls have only played three
games so far, so I don't have much to go on. They managed to play
two close games against Chico State, a very good Division II team.
Their problem is, with Eastern Oregon out, and Lewis-Clark State in,
the Hustlin' Owls are going to have an uphill struggle with UBC,
Albertson, and Corban for that last playoff spot. Their top
offensive returnee is Dan Mecum, and their top pitching returnee is
Kyle Koontz. They have a new pitcher, Derek Jacobson, who acquitted
himself well against Chico State.
Bonus prediction: Whoever wins Region I has to get past the
champion of the Golden State Athletic Conference (Region II) to get
to the NAIA championship tournament in Lewiston, ID. The GSAC is very
competitive this year, and the teams that were strong last year,
Concordia-Irvine, Biola, and Cal Baptist, aren't doing
espcially well. One of the surprise teams is San Diego Christian,
a brand-new but well-financed program. The other surprise team is
Azusa Pacific, who paid a visit to Nat Bailey Stadium several
years ago and handed Jeff Francis a no-decision. The Cougars are tied
for the GSAC lead with Point Loma Nazarene, and they seem to
be pretty close in ability, but I'm giving the nod to Azusa Pacific.
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Monday, 26 February 2007 08:42 |
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By popular request, here is a link to one of the legendary Saturday Night Live "Superfan" skits, with George Wendt, Chris Farley, and Mike Myers. |
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Stuart, Whitely, Vickers standouts in Alumni Game |
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Friday, 20 October 2006 16:00 |
 Cory Stuart - Photo by Bob Broughton The 2006 University of British Columbia Alumni game was
entertaining, and included some good defensive plays, but the star
of the show was clearly Yankee farmhand and Canadian Olympian Cory
Stuart.
A relief pitcher in real life, Stuart played left field and
shortstop on this occasion. He got two hits, and made a couple of
very good defensive plays at shortstop. UBC Assistant Coach Cavanagh
Whitely said, Somebody should call up George Steinbrenner and let
him know that there's somebody in his organization that can hit.
Stuart spent most of the 2006 season with the Class A Charleston
Riverdogs, and was named to the South Atlantic League all-star team.
His season with the Riverdogs was cut short when he was called upon
to pitch for the Canadian Olympic Team in a qualifying tournament in
Havana. He made three appearances in the tournament, one of them
against the US.
Interviewed after his Alumni game action, Stuart said that the
next round of Olympic qualifying for Canada would be sometime in
March, in Taiwan. This is during spring training, but Stuart said
that the Yankees organization has gotten better at letting players go
for international competition like this. If Stuart is selected to
play in Taiwan, he probably won't get a lot of advance notice. His
performance in Havana probably had no effect on his standing in the
Yankees organization. Although minor-league players get very little
information about where they are likely to be playing next season,
Stuart is hoping to be moved up to the advanced A team in
Tampa.
 Celebration after Chris Ames robbed major league star Jeff Francis of a hit Colorado Rockies LHP Jeff Francis, who played centre field, also
hit the ball hard a couple of times, but one ball went directly to
the centre fielder, and he was robbed of a hit by second baseman Chris
Ames, who at the time was dressed for a night at the Roxy instead of
for baseball.
The other pro ball player present was Brooks McNiven, a
right-handed starter who has played for the class A San Jose Giants for the
past three seasons. Spending three seasons with the same minor league
team is unusual, and McNiven said that this could be either good or
bad. The good part is that he is still playing pro ball. Like most of
his teammates, McNiven billets in San Jose, due to the high cost of
housing there. He also had good things to say about his teammate Tim
Lincecum, a first-round draft pick out of the University of
Washington.
The turnout for this event was so good that the players were
divided into three teams, Old, Middle-age, and Young. Stuart,
Francis, and McNiven all played for the Middle-age team, which had
four left-handers in the infield much of the time. They played three
five-inning games. The first game, between the Middle-age and Young
teams, ended in a 1-1 tie. The second game, between, the Old and
Middle-age teams, was also a time, 2-2. The Old team won the last game
was 8-4, and the winning run came on a solo home run by Wayne Vickers
in the top of the fifth. The Old team has now won this event three
straight times.
The pitchers for the Old team were Mike Lazaruk, Ryan Berrecloth,
Greg Hayes, and Shane Bascom. Cavanagh Whitely, Brent Mutis, Conor
Whitely, Ben Herman, and Dan Osachoff pitched for the Middle-age
team. (Whitely, whose only pitching experience has been in batting
practice, was throwing some nasty stuff.) Brad Ashman, Richard
Smythe, Davey Wallace, Tyler Hughes, Johnny Yiu, Chris Ames, Jordy
McNiven, and Matt Miller pitched for the Young team. Smythe, Wallace,
and Hughes never pitched as under-graduates. Neither did Yiu, but Yiu
pitched for Whalley at the 1997 Little League World Series.
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