by posted 08/17/2010
 

Byron Buckley and The Coaching Staff and GM

On Monday, August 16th the Alameda World Tournament Baseball Board of Directors held the 2010 Alameda World Team Reunion Party and also presented two special awards. The Manager, GM, and Coaches select the player for the 2010 team that made the most impact on the team. That player is awarded the Dontrelle Willis Award.  Dontrelle played on the World Team previously and now plays in the SF Giants organization.  This year's winner is Byron Buckley!  The Katlyn Gillman Award (Katlyn is a former Board member that died too young) is given to the most inspirational player on the team and this year the award goes to Connor Finn!

Congratulations to these deserving, young men. 

    

by posted 08/17/2010
 

    

by posted 08/08/2010
 
The Alameda World Team families home-stayed the Fresno players over night on Saturday after the doubleheader.   According to all the reports everyone had a great time!

Sunday morning Alameda took on Fresno for a third time looking for a sweep of the series, but came up short losing 3 - 2.  Anthony Olmo and Michael Perri pitched very well, but Fresno took the lead late.  Alameda had the bases loaded with no outs in the bottom of the seventh poised to at least tie the game, but came away with no runs and a loss.

After a great luncetime BBQ put on by the Board of Directors, the Alameda World Team took on the Australian World Team in a 7 inning game.  Australia had been to Fresno for a few friendship games and came to the Bay Area to do some sightseeing and play the Alameda World Team. 

Adam Rees was great on the mound and at the plate.  Alameda pulled ahead 5 - 3, but Australia got a run in the sixth to make it 5 - 4.  With a one run lead Drew Huie was in to close the game and got the first out.  The second batter reached on an error, but Huie picked him off first, however the ball was dropped at second on the tag.  Eventually, that runner scored the tying run.  A long fly for the apparent second out was hit to center, but the Alameda field lost it in the sun and the Austrailian on second scored to take the lead.  Alameda threatened in the bottom of the 7th when Trevor Toy lead off with a single and stole second.  However, he never made it home and Australia walked off with a win before they leave for Mexico and the World Tournament on Tuesday. 
    

by posted 08/07/2010
 
Alameda came out strong and took two convincing wins over the Fresno World Team at the College of Alameda.  Alameda won the first game 4 - 1 thanks to strong pitching from Geoff Ogata and timely hitting from Adam Rees and Andrew Pavao.

The Alameda team took the second game 8 - 4 with almost everyone contributing.  Dylan Holt pitched 5 stong innings and was relieved by Michael Perri for the last 2.  Byron Buckley smashed one to the right centerfield wall for a triple and trotted home on the over-throw for a run.

Alameda takes on Fresno for a third game on Sunday at 10 am at the College of Alameda.  Australia will play Alameda later in the day at 1:30.
    

by Rich Krinks posted 08/03/2010
 
The Alameda World Baseball Team will play Fresno this weekend along with the World Team from Australia.  All games are at the College of Alameda.

AWTB vs Fresno

Saturday, August 7th    11 am and 2:30 pm

Sunday, August 8th       10 am


AWTB vs Australia

Sunday, August 8th         1 pm
    

by posted 07/30/2010
 
Alameda played the Cougars from Kansas and lost their second consecutive game in double elimination play.  The Cougars were able to score two runs in the first and one in the second to lead 3 - 0, but Alameda roared into a tie with 3 runs in the second.  But the Cougars were up to the task scoring a runs in every inning of the game.  Down 10 - 3 in the bottom of the 7th Alameda tried to stage another amazing comeback, but fell short as they could only score 4 runs and lost 10 - 7.  Alameda is now out of the Gold Bracket.

They will be returing home on Monday, August 2nd and then will play the Fresno World Team and the Australia World team over the weekend of August 7th and 8th.
    

by posted 07/30/2010
 
Alameda played Around the Horn, from Kalamazoo, Michigan in their first game of the double elimination portion of the tournament.  Geoff Ogata was on the mound for Alameda and he gave up a run in the top of the first.  ATH pitcher Sheppard was throwing very hard, but gave up a lead off double to Adam Rees.  However, Alameda couldn't get him home.  ATH struck for 2 runs in the 2nd, 2 in the 3rd and blew the game open in the 4th scoring 6 to lead 11 - 1 going into the 5th inning.  Alameda finally got their bats going and scored an amazing 9 runs on 7 hits in the 5th to trail by one.  The rightfielder for ATH was having a day having hit a home run his last time up and in the 6th hit a two run homer to put ATH up by 3.  Those runs were crucial as Alameda scored two times in the bottom of the inning to trail by 1 again.  Drew Huie struck out the side in the top of the 7th and Alameda was poised for a dramatic comeback.  With one out Alameda had the tying run on second and the winning run on first, but didn't get the job done and lost a crazy game 13 - 12. 
    

by posted 07/27/2010
 
The Alameda World Team was led by the pitching and hitting of Dylan Holt as they beat the Diamonds of Grand Rapids, Michigan. Alameda needed to win this game to advance to the Gold Round of the playoffs and the Diamonds needed to win. Many of the teams in this tournament are baseball academy teams and the Diamonds were a very well coached team. However, Holt mowed them down on the mound and Alameda hit the ball hard today. To help his cause Holt hit a laser shot over the leftfield fence for a 2 run homer and Alameda led 3 - 0 in the third inning. More timely hitting by Byron Buckley, Geoff Ogata, Andrew Pavao, Drew Huie, Michael Perri and Holt pushed the lead to 8 - 1. Reece Kamphuis made a nice running catch early in the game in left, Perri made numerous plays at second and Adam Rees made a highlight play at short in the 7th with the Diamonds threatening. Alameda won 8 - 2 and will learn it's seed and position tonight for the double elimination portion of the Tournament.
    

by posted 07/26/2010
 
The Alameda World Team lost a very close game to Brazil 4 - 2 on Sunday.  Brazil's first pitcher was very good and tough to hit.  Dylan Holt and Michael Perri pitched for the World Team.  We hit 4 hard line drives in big situations, but they were right to Brazil's defense or the score would have been different.  We play two teams from Illinois today.  Beautiful weather without much humidity fortunately.
    

by Rich Krinks posted 07/25/2010
 
The Alameda World Team beat the Crystal Lake Bombers 3 - 2 in their first game of the tournament. Geoff Ogata allowed 2 runs on 5 hits over 7 innings. Adam Rees lead off the bottom of the first inning with a long double to right center and Dylan Holt knocked him in with a single to right. However, the Bombers.struck for 2 runs in the 4th to take the lead. The World Team had runners on second and third in the 6th inning with one out and Christian Leung up. Christian smoked a line drive up the middle and scored Andrew Pavao and Conner Finn. Alameda was up 3 - 2 going to the top of the 7th. Ogata was up to the task and took care of business. Alameda now plays Brazil @ 2 pm today.
    

by Rich Krinks posted 07/23/2010
 
Today was the Skills Contest. Christian Leung finished 4th out of 92 players in the Home Run Derby! We have both of our Around The Horn teams in the finals on Wednesday night! We finished 2nd and 3rd in the preliminaries. First game for us tomorrow at 2pm against a team from Michigan.
    

by posted 07/15/2010
 
The World Team traveled to Diablo Valley College on Saturday, July 17th to take on the Walnut Creek Nationals.  The World Team played against a very strong team that recently won 2 tournaments.  After trailing 1 - 0 the World team tied the game and took the lead in the 7th inning of the 9 inning game.  However the home team scored twice in the 8th and once in the 9th to win 4 - 2.
    

by posted 07/11/2010
 
On Saturday, July 10th the Alameda World Team played it's first two games of the season.  They are playing at the Twin Creeks Complex in Sunnyvale in a USSSA 15/16 Year Old Tournament.  In the first game the Alameda World Team came away with a close 2-1 victory over the Silicon Valley Yankees. 

In the second game of the day the Alameda team lost to a 16 year old Central Cal Academy team 4-1.

After all the games on Saturday the World Team was seeded 5th.  They played the 4th seed Shaggers at 8:00 am on Sunday.  The World Team fell behind early 3 - 0.  But scored 4 to take the lead in the 5th inning.  However, it didn't last as the Shaggers scored 8 in the inning and ended up winning the game 11 - 4.
    

by posted 06/20/2010
 
Due to travel alert warnings issued by the State Department in regards to travel to Mexico the Alameda World Tournament Baseball Board of Directors have decided to withdraw from this year's Boy's World Baseball Tournament.

However, they have accepted an invitation to play in a 48 team International Tournament in Crystal Lake, Illinois.  The international teams come from Puerto Rico, Brazil, Japan, Dominican Republic, New Zealand and Venezuela.

For more information on the tournament you can click on the link below:

http://www.mcysasports.org/15UNC.cfm

    

by posted 06/19/2010
 



    

by posted 12/02/2009
 

General Manager, Joe Sherratt, has scheduled the first Parent/Player meeting for the 2010 Alameda World Baseball Team.  The meeting will be held Sunday, December 13th at 7 pm.  The location will soon follow.

    

by posted 12/02/2009
 
The Alameda World Baseball Tournament Team Board of Directors have selected the following for the 2010 Team:

General Manager:            Joe Sherratt

Manager:                        Todd Kamphuis

Coach:                            Rich Krinks

Coach:                            Carlos Macedo

Congratulations to those selected to lead the team to the World Tournament to be held in early August 2010 in Culiacan, Mexico.
    

by posted 10/24/2009
 
The Alameda World Tournament Baseball Board of Directors is accepting applications for the General Manager and Manager positions for 2010.  The 2010 World Tournament is to be held in Culiacan, Mexico in August.  The Board will be interviewing applicants for manager and GM at the next scheduled board meeting on Thursday, November 12th.  Please contact the President of the Board, Tim Marr at 510-418-9456 or 510-865-6226 if interested in applying.
    

by posted 07/27/2009
 

2009 World Team and Alumni

The 2009 Alumni Game was held on Sunday, July 26th at the College of Alameda.  The Alumni showed no mercy as they beat the World Team soundly.  Next year we will have to devise a fairer system as the Alumni pitching and hitting was no match for this year's World Team.  Thanks to all the Alumni that came out and played.  Here is a list of players and the year(s) they played.

Adam Boyd 2008
Chris Lancaster 2008
Richard Roque 2007, 2008
Enrique Padilla 2007
Scott Rees 2007
Zack Boyd 2004, 2005
Michael Gillman 2000, 2001
Mark Gillman 1999, 2000
Jeff Soskin 1999, 2000
Nick Meyer 1999
Dave Ballerini 1998, 1999
Connor Patterson 1998
Alex Rosko 1998
Erik Schuller 1992

Coach: Mike Ballerini
Coach: Carlos Macedo
Coach: Chuck Moseley

SEE YOU NEXT YEAR!!!!!!!

    

by posted 07/20/2009
 
The Alameda World Tournament Players sold raffle tickets to help defray costs for this year travel to Italy.  The drawing was held on Saturday, July 18th during the second game of the doubleheader against Fresno at Lincoln Park.

Here are the Prizes, the Winners and the player that sold each one.


Lake Tahoe Weekend:   Jennifer Howell      Sold by Jesse Lewis

Group Pool Party:   Ellen Kelly     Sold by Jack Kelly

A's Game Tix:   Judy Hamilton      Sold by Jack kelly

$300 Cash:    Jamie Levi      Sold by Brendan Collins-Bride


    

by posted 07/05/2009
 
The 2009 Alameda World Team plays their first practice game vs Headfirst Gamers on Monday, July 6th at 5:30 @ the College of Alameda.  Come out and support the team.  No fee for entry.  The rest of the practice game schedule is posted under the July Schedule tab at the top of the page.
    

by rich krinks posted 04/21/2009
 
The 2009 World Team held their 5th Annual Spring Clinic for little league players and it was a huge success.  Over 50 players from Alameda Little League attended the 4 day clinic.  The Alameda World Team Coaching Staff, guest coaches and World Team players treated the little league players to skill drills and practice games.  We look forward to hosting the Clinic in 2010.
    

by rich Krinks posted 11/03/2008
 
During the October 29, 2008 Board Meeting the General Manager and Field Manager were selected for the 2009 Team which will travel to Italy for the 2009 Boys World Baseball Tournament.

General Manager:          Rich Krinks
Field Manager:                Tim Marr

Tim will be choosing his coaches shortly.
    

by posted 11/03/2008
 
During the October 29, 2008 Alameda World Tournament Baseball Board Meeting the a new slate of Executive Officers and Board of Directors were approved.  Here is the Board of Directors for 2009:

Executive Board:

President:                              Tim Marr
Vice President:                     Joe Sherratt
International Relations:      Bill Dal Porto
Treasurer:                             Roan Kees
Secretary:                              Jeni Marr

Board of Directors:

David Bail
Pat Bail
Dave Boyd
Gerri-Collins-Bride
Theresa Cooper
Dennis Di Fabio
Todd Kamphius
Rich Krinks
Carlos Macedo
Randy Marmor
Ron Matthews
Chuck Moseley
Greg Schopf
    

by rich Krinks posted 09/22/2008
 

Dontrelle Willis Award Winner, Daniel Skinner

On Sunday, September 21st the Alameda World Tournament Baseball Board of Directors held the 2008 Alameda World Team Reunion BBQ and also presented two special awards. The Manager, GM, and Coaches select the player for the 2008 team that made the most impact on the team. That player is awarded the Dontrelle Willis Award.  Dontrelle Willis played on the World Team previously and now plays for the Detroit Tigers.  This year's winner is Daniel Skinner!  The Katlyn Gillman Award (Katlyn is a former Board member that died too young) is given to the most inspirational player on the team and this year the award goes to Casey Jennings!

Congratulations to these deserving, young men. 
    

by posted 08/21/2008
 
Each team Manager, Coach and Leader chose a player from their own team that showed the best sportsmanship during the tournament.  These players aren't necessarily MVP's, but great sports and very important to the comaraderie of the team.  Congratulations to all winners!
    

by posted 08/18/2008
 
Alameda played Mexico Verde into extra innings and fell in the bottom of the ninth.  They played very well in the tournament and ended in 4th Place.
    

by posted 08/18/2008
 

The Torch is Passed to Italy

On Thursday evening, 8/14/08, at the Leader's Meeting, the World Boy's Baseball Tournament sites were voted on for the years 2009 and 2010.  Nettuno, Italy will be the site in 2009, hosted by Alfonso Gualtieri.  Nettuno is considered the the baseball capital of Italy.  It is located 30 miles South of Rome. 

Mazatlan, Mexico will be the site of the tournament in 2010 hosted by Mexico Verde.
    

by posted 08/15/2008
 
Alameda will play for 3rd Place against Mexico Verde at 11:45 at the College of Alameda, Saturday, 8/16.  Alameda secured the playoff spot after beating San Diego 13 - 4 on Friday.
    

by posted 08/12/2008
 

Home Run Derby Winners

On Opening Day the Home Run Derby was held.  Two players from each team competed for the trophies.  It was great fun and lots of long balls. 

The winners were:

First Place:          Steve Lozier         Fresno

Second Place:    Shuto Takajyo     Japan  

Third Place:         James Murphy    Australia

    

by posted 08/10/2008
 

2008 Alameda World Team

    

by posted 07/17/2008
 

2007 Opening Ceremonies in Culiacan, Mexico

The Alameda World Tournament Board of Directors has just announced that there will be an Alumni vs Alumni Game held at the College of Alameda, Sunday, August 10, at 10:30 am, just before the opening ceremonies of the World Tournament at 2:00pm, which will be followed by a welcome dinner which we would love for you all to come out and be a part of the whole day!  All Alameda World Team Alumni young and older please contact Tim Marr, this year’s Tournament Director, with your interest in playing – .
    

by posted 05/13/2008
 
The Alameda World Baseball Team Board of Directors is pleased to announce that Lavine's Heating & Cooling will be the Platinum Sponsor for the 2008 World Tournament to be held in Alameda.  Lavine's Heating  & Cooling is a qualifed and certified HVAC contractor that has good references and many years of experience.  You can reach them at 510-632-4105 and please visit their website at www.thinkgreenthinklavine.com
    

by posted 10/12/2007
 

2007 Opening Ceremonies in Culiacan, Mexico

Alameda will host the 27th Annual World Boy's Baseball Tournament in early August.  The Board of Directors received word recently that Alameda was awarded the Tournament host.  The exact days of the Tournament have not been determined yet, but it will be in early August.  There will be teams from around the world participating.  In the past, teams from Japan, China, Korea, Mexico, Taiwan, Italy, Brazil, San Diego, Fresno and Alameda have competed in the Tournament.

    

by posted 09/15/2007
 

Tim Lee is the 2007 Dontrelle Willis Award Winner

The 2007 Alameda World Team selected special award winners for this year. 

The Dontrelle Willis Award is given to the player who shows the most love for the game and plays it the right way with unselfishness.  Dontrelle played on the Alameda World Team with great enthusiasm and still talks about his trip to Japan with the team.

The 2007 Dontrelle Willis Award winner is Tim Lee from Castro Valley.

2007 is the first year for the Katlyn Gillman Award.  Katlyn had 3 boys go through the program over the last few years and gave countless hours of support to the program and baseball in general in Alameda.  Katlyn was a Board Member also.  Unfortunately Katlyn was taken from us early in her life as she passed away this year when she lost a battle with cancer.  Katlyn showed great spirit and was an inspiration to us all.

The 2007 Katlyn Gillman Award goes to Matt Schopf from Alameda.