Little League News

Nick Douglas put out the word: Anyone driving 1,300 miles from the Portland area to the NCAA Division III baseball championships this week? Anyone want to watch the University of Southern Maine play ball? Jerry Case supplied the vehicle for the trip from Maine to Wisconsin for the NCAA Division III tournament with two other men and, of course, his ... (more)

So there I am coaching third base for my 9-year-old son's little league team. Man on second, one out.

To hear the imported ace of the Kitchener Panthers tell it, he was at home in Delano, Calif., when his father, also named Marcos, came in with an instructional pitching tape and popped it into the VCR.

Long before he began tormenting Warriors fans as the high-scoring Los Angeles Lakers center, Kareem Abdul-Jabbar envisioned himself as part of the Dodgers-Giants rivalry.

Megan Futrell, 29, had picked up young Case, 3 months, from a babysitter as the storm approached Moore.

The Cape girls' lacrosse team in the front row cheers on the boys against Caesar Rodney.

Lac Saint Clair Little Leaguers lived out their big league dreams recently as members of the baseball and softball teams were the guests of honor of the Toledo Mud Hens at Fifth Third Field.

Excitement stirred at Duratti-Holmes-Cerone Field Wednesday over 12-year-old Jake McIntire's pitching.

Matt Santos/Chino Valley Review, Special to the Courier 'The bottom line is, he's going to do whatever is right for the kid and for the program," Chino assistant coach Bill McKnight said of Bruce Nesbitt.

They played a 4-6 road trip that saw the team never string good games together with series losses against the Los Angeles Dodgers and the San Francisco Giants sandwiching a series split against the San Diego Padres .

When I played Little League baseball back in the early 1960s, we had skin infields .

The Giants won the seven-and-eight-year-old coach pitch championship at Cedartown Little League.

Tickets are now on sale for The Investigator movie that was filmed largely in Brandon and producers are inviting the community to buy tickets for a big fall kick-off to support this Independent film shot and produced locally.

It was Madison's 15th win of the season, and the first loss for Oak Hill since April 24.

Sal Armato pitched a four-hitter, struck out 10 and had two hits as Cyclone Auto Body defeated ShopRite 6-4 in an East Shore LL Senior game Wednesday.

Kevin Gausman, who has developed an outstanding changeup to go with an "extreme-velocity fastball," will start on the mound Thursday for the Orioles.

Player safety, especially at the high school level, has become a key focus of nearly everyone involved with sports in recent years.

A 12-year old in Massachussetts has been banned from pitching for his little league team, because he is too good.

It didn't matter the color of the uniform or the type of the badge. Every officer at the 11th Annual Okaloosa County Law Enforcement Memorial Luncheon on Thursday was there because they wanted to protect and serve.

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