Tuesday, October 21, 2008

More Florida baseball

While the World Series is played Wednesday and Thursday in Tampa Bay, many local players are heading to Jupiter, Fla. for the 2008 World Wood Bat Association & Baseball Championship Series.
Teams representing our area are the Bellaire Offseason Cards, the Houston Heat and the Texas Scout Team Yankees.
The Cards team, coached by Steve Silver, consists entirely of Bellaire players. This group finished second in the recent TASO tournament. Players from our coverage area on the other teams are as follows:
* Houston Heat: 2B/SS Barrett Barnes (Fort Bend Austin), P/3B Matthew Bean (Kinkaid), P Michael Bentz (Memorial), C M.P. Cokinos (Memorial), P Tyler Duffie (Lamar), C Ryan Guedry (Houston Christian), P/1B Kevin Hahn (Stratford), OF Connor Harrell (Kinkaid), IF/3B C.J. Jarvis (Houston Christian), P/C Daniel Mengden (Westside), P Keifer Nuncio (Katy), P/IF Michael Reed (Stratford), P Jeff Spillane (Houston Christian).
* Texas Scout Team Yankees: 3B/middle IF Jake Miller (Stratford), UTIL Andrew Stumph (Katy), OF Kyle Von Tungeln (Kempner).
Thanks to the mother of Memorial pitcher/1B Steven Murray for mentioning this event to us.
Check out more info about the tournament here.

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