From Australia, -"Dundee's" Baulkam Hills Team Drops a close one to the League Leading North Ryde RSL Team

Dundee's Baulkham Hills team Sits 2.2 games back of the league leading North Ryde Team and 1 game out of 2nd Place Just behind The Five Dock Falcons Gang


In Last weekends Play...................
Baulkham Hills took the field minus 2 of our younger players, one on Army
duty, the other due to illness.
Nth Ryde as the visitors scored 9 runs in the top of the 1st, driving the
ball to right centre field with regularity.
Pitcher Bob Wardle fed a steady diet of curve balls to keep Nth Ryde off
balance, stemming the flow of runs over the next few innings.
Baulko suffered a huge setback in the 4th inning, with the bases loaded
and
no outs, Ken Sharpe hit a line drive at the third baseman, who dropped the
ball (unintentionally) and then turned a triple play.
by
Nth Ryde and their closest result of the season.


Players Player - David Wardle

Next week vs Kissing Point @ Nth Mead.

It was payback time as the Sacramento A's win a big one against their Brother team The Oakland A's

Washington High School, Dennis Eckersly Field Sunday June 21, 2009 @ 3 PM.

On a sunny day in Fremont, the Oakland A's tried to take a 2-0 series over
the Sacramento A's. Coaches Lu & Macias were confident their team would
handle the struggling Sacramento squad. Oakland struck first blood with 1 run
in the 1st inning. Craig Alexander started the game off by drawing a walk
off of coach Gary Hopper. Dave Vigil draws a walk, Mike Byron singles.
Bottom of the 1st, Eddie Contreras hits a single off Mike Byron, Steve
Dennis walks, next 3 batters go down 1-2-3. After 1 inning Oakland 1,
Sacramento 0.

The next 2 innings are a pitching duel between Byron & Hopper & good
defewnse by both teams. The 4th inning, Oakland scores 1 run on a single by Pat
Macias. He advances and scores on grounders & an error.
Bottom 1/2 of inning, Contreras walks, Dennis singles & both score on
rbi singles by Ken Calloway & Tony Hensley. After the end of 4 innings
Oakland 2 Sacramento 2.

5 th inning, Brian O'Leary walks, Dave Vigil singles and both score on a 2
RBI double by Byron. Sacramento is once again shut down by Byron.
Only Don Luis manages to get a single & the next 3 batters strike out.
After 5 innings Oakland 6 Sacramento 2.

6 th inning, Contreras takes over pitching duties from Hopper. Oakland
scores 2 runs on a walk & a couple of errors then the 2 rbi single by Jeff
Jones. The inning ends with Contreras striking out Alexander.
Contreras is not liking the thought of another loss so he has
Sacramento unleash some fury. He starts the inning off by hitting a monster triple
to left field off of Eric Reifschnider. Dennis gets the RBI single, Scott
Wagner gets on by an infield error. The next 2 batters get out then the 2 out
rally begins.the next 3 out 4 runners reach base on fielding errors by
Oakland. Russ Greenfield gets a RBI single & Erik Hoffman gets a 2 RBI single.
Sacramento scores 7 runs. So after 6 innings Oakland 6 Sacramento 9.

7 th inning, Contreras gets in to a groove and shuts down Oakland with
Byron getting the only hit in the inning.
Sacramento had so much fun the last inning, they decided to it all over
again. Contreras starts the inning off again by getting a single. Adrian
Franco is pitching & starts to have trouble finding the strike zone. He
issues 2 walks then Hensley hits a 2 RBI single. Hopper, Luis & Mike Furutani
all receive walks. Mike Martinez gets a 2 RBI double, Greenfield gets a sac
fly & Erik Hoffman adds 1 more rbi with a single.
After 7 innings Oakland 6 Sacramento 17.

Scott Wagner comes in to close out the game for Sacramento. Oakland
strikes quickly with a run. Reifschnider walks & Jones doubles. Coach Lu gets a
RBI single for Oakland's 2nd run of the inning, O' Leary gets a single.
Wagner gets the next 2 batters to fly out.
End of game, Sacramento wins their 1st game of the season by the score
17-8.

The Sacramento A's Drop A Tough one to San Francisco 9 - 8. Injuries & No Shows are Tailspinning the A's to the Cellar

Injuries and No shows are Causing The Mighty Sacramento A's to Free Fall during the 1st 30% of the season. This Team Had the Makings of a Contender at The completion of this Seasons Draft. Coach Contreras stated, were Much Like The MLB Oakland A's Team that is tapping the Triple A squad way to many times to make a run for the # 1 spot. Contreras and The Sacramento A's will face their Oakland A's Brother Team This Sunday with a 50 / 50 Chance of pulling off their 1st win of 2009. Good Luck Sacramento !!


Sacramento A's Game Re-cap for Sunday June 14th..................


Sunday June 14, 2009 3 PM @ Willow Glenn H.S. in San Jose.

The Sacramento A's took on the SF Giants and battled them to a 9 to 8 loss.
In the first inning, the Giants score 4 runs with 3 hits & 3 walks while the A's are scoreless.

Both teams don't score again until the 4th inning. The A's score 1 run on a single by Ken Calloway,
advances on 2 grounders & scores on a fielders choice. The Giants score 4 more runs with 5 hits.

5th inning, The A's score 3 runs with a single by Mike "$$$ Man" Martinez, a walk by "Yo" Adrian Franco, a 2 RBI double by Dave Vigil and a RBI single by Steve Dennis & single by Eddie Contreras. The Giants score 1 run. After 5 innings of play, A's 4 the Giants 9.

6th inning, A's score 1 run on a walk to Bob Moore, single by Gary Hopper, walk to Don Luis. Moore's 2nd inning of pitching shuts the Giants offense down.

7th inning, A's held in check, no runs. Moore gets 2 outs on the Giants before giving way to Contreras who gets the Giants to ground out at 3rd base for the last out.

8th inning, A's score 3 runs on a walk and 2 errors by the Giants defense and a double by Mike Mello "Yellow". The Giants are shut down by Contreras with 11 pitches.

Time runs out, Giants win 9 to 8. Next game A's vs A's.

The Oakland A's Get a Big Win Over The Sacramento A's 17-8........... Dundee's Baulkham Hills Team Wins big, 14-10 over The Rangers In Australia Play

The Oakland A's win 17 - 8 over the Sacramento A's. Here is a Game Recap....................

It was a warm morning and no wind whatsoever for the 1^st 3 innings. It was the battle of the green and gold for the 1^st time of 2009. What team is going hit well, what team is going to pitch good enough for the win and which team will show up to play good defense to win. Sacramento vs Oakland. Eddie & Hoop vs Lu & Macias. Former A’s Teammates vs Former A’s Teammates. The Bragging rights are up for Grabs for at least 6 weeks anyway till the Next A’s vs A’s Game.The Stage is set. Read on to see what transpired that May 17^th Morning at Riordan………….

Oakland took the field as Home team. Dave Vigil was the Starting pitcher for Oakland. Sacramento’s Batting line up was gearing up for the 1^st pitch. Into the Box steps Steve Dennis who wasted no time in his batting statement nailing a 1^st at bat base hit, Eddie Contreras Came up next and singled moving Dennis over, Scott Wagner patiently took some pitches from Vigil to draw a walk and load up the bases. Vigil Wiped the nervous sweat from his forehead and took the sign from the Catcher as Kevin Zimmerman prepared the batters box and smacked yet another base hit scoring Dennis. Don Luis Followed with another base hit scoring Contreras. The next 3 Sacramento batters went down 1, 2, 3 as the side was retired after 4 hits and 2 runs. Scott Wagner was elected the Starting pitcher for Sacramento, bringing with him, his many years of Pool Experience. The Oakland A’s studied Game film on Wagner with the mindset that he was going to be Sac’s starting pitcher. The film Prep, helped the A’s out. Although Craig Alexander lead off the Oaks with a fly ball out, the rest of the Oaks line up were ready to hit. Next up was Dave Vigil who Singled, Mike Byron singled as well. With runners on 1^st and 2^nd Mike Mello launched a rocket ground rule double to left center scoring Vigil. Tony Hensley drew a walk off of Wagner reloading the bases for Pat Macias. Macias launched another 2 base rocket shot to right center scoring Byron and Mello. That was it for the Oaks in the bottom of the 1^st. Score after 1 full Sac 2 and the Oaks 3. Into the 2^nd. The Sacramento team sent Ed Glover to the plate to start off the 2^nd. Glover went 3-3 last game at the plate and wasted no time keeping that bat attack going by ripping a double here to start of the 2^nd. Unfortunately for the Sac team Ed Glover was the lone run in the 2^nd from a Rbi ground out by Russ Greenfield. That was all the Sac team could do in their 2^nd. For the Oakland A’s in the bottom of the 2^nd. “Yo Adrian” Franco crushed a Double to the left center wall, Marty “Bad Marty” Brown drew a walk. Here come the Judge, Dave Gamson to the plate who singles driving in “Yo Adrian” Culbert Lu singles as well, driving in Bad Marty Brown as Gamson scored on a throwing error. Craig “Alexander the great” is up next and punches his 1^st hit of the game with a Rbi scoring C-Lu, Vigil grounds into a fielders choice eliminating Alexander at 2^nd. Mike Byron flys out. Mike Mello singles which moves Vigil to 2nd . Tony Hensley at the plate, hit a grounder to shortstop and because of a throwing error to 2^nd, caused Mello and Vigil to score as Hensley ended up on 3^rd. Pat Macias grounded out to end the inning after the Oaks scored 6 unanswered runs. Score after 2 full Sac 3 Oak 9. Into the 3^rd for the Sacramento A’s. Due up was Steve "Dennis The Menace" Dennis, Eddie "Munster" Contreras & Scott "Tissue" Wagner the Big Three in the Sacramento line up. These 3 Sac batters were out 1, 2, 3 in order as Dave Vigil of the Oaks team threw a nice 3^rd inning, getting the Sacramento Big Three out in order. For The Oaks in the 3^rd. Jeff Jones grounded out, Felix “The Cat” Lu Singles. Yo Adrian draws a walk. Marty “Bad Marty” Brown delivers a base hit loading up the bases for the Oaks.. The Judge Gamer grounds out getting Felix “The Cat” Lu thrown out on a force at home. The Oaks are running on 2 outs with the bases still loaded. Culbert Lu doubles clearing the bases adding 3 more Rbi’s to his resume for the day. Craig Alexander singled in the 3^rd here but was left stranded as Dave “The Rally Killer” Vigil grounded out to end the inning. Game score after 3 full Sac A’s 3 – Oak A’s 12. Into the 4^th for the Sacramento A’s, Kevin Zimmerman lead off the Sac team with a walk. Don Luis Drove Zimmerman up on the bases with his 2^nd hit of the game. The next 3 Sac Batters were out in order as Kevin "The Men's Warehouse" Zimmerman scored on a ground out and Luis was left stranded on 2nd. For Oakland in the 4^th. Byron leads off grounding out, Mello Yellow adds another base hit to get on base, Hensley gets on board via a Sac error moving Mello Yellow up. Macias singles loading the bases up once again for Oakland. Jeff “Davey” Jones grounds out into a fielders choice scoring Mello. Felix "The Cat" walks, Yo Adrian gets aboard on another Sac error scoring Hensley. That was it for the Oakland team in the 4^th. Score after 4 full, Saramento 4 - Oakland 14. Into the 5^th. Ed "The Gold" Glover gets to the plate and tries to keep his hitting frenzy going but was interfered with by the catcher on a possible base hit and was awarded 1^st as a no at bat. Dennis “Whats up Doc” Conyers Labors his 1^st hit of the game with a bum right shoulder moving Gold Glover up. Russ “Mr. Green Jeans” Greenfield gets aboard on a E-7 moving runners up as well. The Sleeping “A” Ken "Heidi Ho" Calloway gets on board due to a 2^nd base Oakland error as Glover and Conyers score on these 2 consectitive Oakland errors as The Sleeping Sacramento team has something brewing here in the 5^th .Steve Dennis "The Menace" rocks a Rbi double for his 2^nd hit of the game, Contreras Grounds out to the pitcher for the 2^nd out of the inning. "Great' Scott "Tissue"Wagner punches another double in this inning and a Rbi scoring Dennis from 2^nd base for the Sacramento team. Kevin “The Men's Warehouse” Zimmerman draws a base on balls and Don “Louie, Louie”Luis grounded to short for the last Sacramento out of the inning. For the Oakland team in the 5^th, Here Come the Judge Gamson who draws a walk,C-Ba Ba Lu walks as well, Alexander singles. "The Day Time Vigil" hits into a fielders choice out and C-Lu is called out for runners interference at 3^rd. Mike By By Byron hits into a run scoring fielders choice scoring the Judge. Mello comes to the plate and punches a single for his 4^th hit of the game. That was it for Oakland in the 5^th Score after 5 full Sacramento 8 and Oakland 16. Into the 6^th. Gary “Hoop” Hopper grounds out to start the inning for Sac, Mike“ The Money Man” Martinez Purchases a nice 2 base hit. Dave Calhoooooooun K’s. Ed “It’s a hit every time” Glover drives another single hit to get on the bases again for the 3^rd time this game and the 6^th time in a row. “Whats up Doc” Conyers K’s to end the Sacramento inning. My hat is off to the Doc, I know what kind of pain you have trying to swing the bat with a torn Cuff, great Effort. For the Oaks in the 6^th the bats went completely dead as Gary “Hoop” Hopper threw a flawless inning for Sacramento, shutting the Oakland team down. Into the 7^th. The Sacramento A’s didn’t do much here in the 7^th going through 4 batters and not getting anything in return for the efforts. The Oakland Team came up and The Judge Gamson gets aboard on a Sac error, C-Ba Ba Lu K’s out, Alexander Singles moving up The Judge. "The Day TimeVigil" singles to move up the runners even more and Mike Byron skies a sac fly Rbi scoring “Here Comes The Judge” Gamson. Mello Flew out to end the Game on time. Final Score The Oakland A’s 17 and the Sacramento A’s 8.

I’d like to thank the pool players for helping us out today Scott Wagner, Tony Hensley and Culbert Lu. Great game to all of you. Great Pitching by Dave Vigil and Mike Byron of the Oakland A’s team as well as fine pitching from Scott Wagner and Great pitching by Kevin Zimmerman and Gary Hopper who shut down the As’s hitting attack today with their crafty veteran experience. There are 2 more head to head games to be played. I suggest no bragging until that 3^rd game is completed so no Crow is dished up. Both A’s teams are way better than the records show at this point. Good luck the rest of the season A’s Teams. Go out and get those wins you are all capable of getting. THE COMMISSIONERS QUOTE OF THE DAY PARAGRAPH. To have fun and win you must show up. This Game is indeed a lot more fun when all the Teammate draftee’s show up and the Teams drafted can play as designed by the Coaches and more wins will sprout up I'm sure of it.

See you all next game

Mello Man

Dundee's League Game as Reported from Australia............


Our A's Brother "Dundee" Reporting from His League play directly from the Beautiful Land down Under. Sean "Dundee" Henly's Team, Baulkham Hills of the C-Grade Division 2 League Down in Australia Beats the Rangers in a 14-10 Slugfest........ and stays dug in at 2nd place. Highlights below as written By Our Australian League Correspondent "Dundee"


Baulkham Hills travelled to Rofe Park to take on the Rangers.
Bob Warlde as the starting pitcher, completed 2 2/3 innings for the win,
the Rangers fighting back in the 3rd to close the score to 14-10, David
Crinion came on in relief with a runner on 1st to induce a hard ground
ball to Sean Henly at second base to end the threat.
The Kookaburras batted in the top of the 4th, and plated another bunch of
runs (9 or 10, I think), which were erased when the 2hr time limit expired
with 2 outs.
Final official score 14-10 to Baulkham Hills.
Dave Crinion led the players player voting from David Wardle, Shane Irwin,
Bob Wardle and Sean Henly.
Next week vs the undefeated Nth Ryde at Nth Ryde RSL.
Nth Ryde are coming off a 33-1 thrashing of Kissing Point.

Dundee.
It's Toohey Time Again Gang, "Great Win"

From Australia.......Dundee's, Baulkham Hills Team 1 game back in "C" Grade Division 2 Play

Hey Gang here's a few pictures and notes from Our A's Team "Mate" Sean "Dundee" Henly Commenting on His Baulkham Hills Team That Plays in the C Grade Division 2 League in Australia. Looks like Baulkham Hills is tied with Kissing Point for 2nd place at 1-1 each with North Ryde RSL leading the pack at 2-0. Baulkham Hills next game is May 9th against North Sydney. Above is a couple pictures of Dundee during his U.S.A. visit at our 2009 A's pre camp game at the Oakland Coliseum. One of the pictures toward the bottom is of a baseball glove, helmet and a Toohey. For you guys that don't know what A Toohey is, It's a cold beer, so instead of "Miller Time" here its "Toohey Time" in Australia. 12,000 miles away or right here, we all enjoy a Toohey, Miller or a Bud right after a ball game. See more of Dundee's highlights right here as they are reported to me direct from the Land Down Under.

Hi Mike,
>
> Baulkham Hills travelled to George Kendall Riverside Park to take on the
> Five Dock Falcons and we came away 9-5 winners.
> Bob Wardle pitched the complete game for the win.
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> (See attached file: Bob Wardle.JPG)Oil refinery in the background.
>
> David Crinion & Ken Sharpe had big hits.
> (See attached file: Ken On Deck.JPG)
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> Callum Turnbull caught a hot drive at 3rd base and doubled the runner off
> 1st base and was voted players player of the game.
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> (See attached file: Callum.JPG) relaxing after the game
>
> Lenny Gregory in the alternate uniform. (no he didn't lose a bet.)
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> (See attached file: Lenny & Shane.JPG)
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> (See attached file: Tooheys Time.JPG)
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> Next game Saturday May 9th vs North Sydney.








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The 1st annual Rob Weber Desert Classic, Palm Springs Baseball Tournament was a Huge, Huge Hit with everyone who Attended.

3 days of Fantastic Baseball and a Tournament Banquet dinner that was held at The Big Horn Country Club Over looking the entire Palm Springs Valley, one of the most beautiful settings you'll ever see in your life, The entire Baseball weekend and Banquet Gala was a 15 based on a scale of 1-10. I'm telling all you guy's who did not attend right now, This is a Tournament that you just can't pass on next year. The entire A's Team would like to Thank Carl Cardinalli, Bob Ford and Tony Lennon for a wonderful weekend that was 2nd to none for the entire A's Team. We would also like to thank Rob Weber for everything he has done for this tournament as well and getting the A's involved to bring a team into this 1st Annual Rob Weber Classic.

The Palm Springs A's Team & A's Tournament Highlights....................


The A's Team Bottom row L-R Gary Hopper, Don Luis, Adrian Franco, Mike Mello. Top row L-R Felix Lu, Chris Dorn, Blaine Smith, Culbert Lu, Russ Greenfield, Bill Nye. Special Thanks to Frank Weisharr and Steve Bennett of the Giants for Filling in during game 1 & 2





A's Player Russ Greenfield, Voted A's Team MVP for a Stellar Performance of baseball play all weekend During The 1st Annual Rob Weber Desert Classic. Offense, Defense and Battle Scars, Greenfield stood out to all his Teammates as the Teams Best. Congratulations Russ.











More Palm Springs Pictures and Highlights to come.........................
...........................AB R H RBI 1B 2B 3B HR SO BB HP SAC AVG
Blaine Smith........12 5 4... 1.... 3... 1.. 0.. .0 ...1... 2 ...0 ...0 ....333
Adrian Franco......12 3 5....1... 4 ....1... 0 ..0 ...2 ..2 ...0... 0.... 417
Mike Mello...........11 1 3.... 2... 2 ...1... 0... 0 ...1... 1... 1....0.... 273
Don Luis..............12 1 7... 10... 5... 3... 0.. 0... 1 ...0 ...1 ...0 ....583
Gary Hopper.........9 1 1..... 0... 1... 0.... 0.. 0.. 0... 2 ...1... 0.... 111
Culbert Lu............11 3 2.... 0... 1... 0.... 1... 0.. 4....1... 0... 0.... 182
Felix Lu.................11 1 2 ... 2.... 1... 1.... 0... 0.. 3... 0 ...1 ...0 ....182
Bill Nye..................9 3 1.... .1.... 1 ...0... 0... 0.. 3... 3... 0... 0.... 111
Chris Dorn.............3 1 2 .... 0... 1.... 1.... 0... 0...1.. 0.... 1... 0.... 667
Russ Greenfield....10 3 4.... 1... 4....0.... 0... 0.. 1... 3.... 0... 0... 400

The Oakland A's drop 3 straight and the Sacramento A's drop 2 to start off the WCFBA 2009 season

Here are a few Photos of The Sacramento and Oakland A's games that took place at Riordan High School in San Francisco April 26th.

Due to my busy Schedule of late, We will start adding more game and individual highlights of each game and more photos starting with A's vs A's match up which will take place May 17th at Riordan High School in San Francisco and continue adding highlights of each Sacramento and Oakland A's game there after as the season progresses.

Watch for A's highlights from the Palm Springs Tournament coming up next weekend May 1st thru 3rd.