BASEBALL NOTEBOOK: REUNION TEAM FINDS SUCCESS.Byline: Heather Gripp Staff Writer Sean Zortman knows he won't have much free time now that he's joining the Air Force. But there is one week next summer Zortman hopes he'll be available: the week the Southern California Southern California, also colloquially known as SoCal, is the southern portion of the U.S. state of California. Centered on the cities of Los Angeles and San Diego, Southern California is home to nearly 24 million people and is the nation's second most populated region, Indians baseball team makes its annual appearance in a summer tournament. The Indians' success makes it easy to understand why the players want to keep coming back, and why so many of them get an opportunity to play at the college or professional level. The Indians started eight years ago as a club team for 13-year-olds from the Antelope Valley This article is about the Los Angeles County region. For the census-designated place in Wyoming, see Antelope Valley-Crestview, Wyoming. The Antelope Valley and has grown into a highly competitive group of college-age players from throughout Southern California. The team's latest accomplishment was winning the U.S. Amateur Baseball Federation World Series in Chula Vista Chula Vista (ch  `lə), city (1990 pop. 135,163), San Diego co., S Calif., on San Diego Bay; inc. 1911. .
``This is the biggest tournament we've won,'' Indians coach Ron Anello said. Last year, the Indians placed second at the CABA CABA Children Affected By AIDS CABA Ciudad Autonoma de Buenos Aires (Buenos Aires, Argentina) CABA Continental Automated Buildings Association CABA Continental Amateur Baseball Association CABA Cuban American Bar Association wood bat World Series. Their other major tournament title was in 1998 at the UNLV UNLV University of Nevada, Las Vegas Invitational. ``They call me every year, 'Coach are we going to do it again this summer?' '' said Anello, whose team prepares for the tournaments by playing college and scout teams. ``We love doing it because they're a great group of guys. ... And it gives a lot of them the chance to get noticed and go on and play somewhere else. We've got a lot of guys going in a lot of positive directions.'' Jon Anello, Andre Monroe, J.J. Rosati and Brett Ross are original team members, but most have been with the Indians for at least three years. Many of the players, such as catcher Tony Cicero, outfielder Peter Gunny and first baseman Fernando Valenzuela
--Good decision: Bobby Paschal almost didn't accept the invitation to play in the Connie Mack Connie Mack can refer to three different people:
In the first game of the recent tournament in Farmington, N.M., Paschal had nine strikeouts in six innings. Overall, he allowed only two earned runs in nine innings to go 1-0. Paschal had spent the summer playing for the Toluca Titans, but when they were eliminated from the playoffs he was eligible to be added to the Cardinals' roster. --Representing the USA: Harvard-Westlake of Studio City first baseman Brennan Boesch, Westlake catcher Konrad Thieme, Chatsworth pitcher Justin Cassel and Camarillo outfielder Delmon Young Delmon Damarcus Young, (born September 14, 1985 in Montgomery, Alabama), the younger brother of Dmitri Young, is an outfielder on the Tampa Bay Devil Rays and was, arguably, the top hitting prospect in baseball as of the end of the 2005 minor-league baseball season. were selected to play for the USA in the Goodwill Series against a team of Japanese All-Stars. Games are Aug. 30-Sept. 2 at Blair Field in Long Beach. Players were selected based on performance at the Area Code Games this month. An exception was made for Young because he was busy setting hitting records for the USA Junior National Team and was unable to attend the Area Code Games, in which he starred in previous years. |
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