Home Budget squeaked a win out past Cecil County with a 2-0 win last night. Canada Dry Clincehd a few weeks ago in the Donofrio Division. Second and third place are still up for grabs for both divisions with less than a week to go. The only team Mathematically out of it is Damiani Tile. Damiani Tile would only be agame out of the Donofrio divison. Just a weird year with the schedules being set up the way they were. But every year the league will swap teams depending on what place they finish in the regular season. The only two teams that are set for next year is Canda Dry will be in one division and Home Budget will be in the other. 

   Our Thoughts and Prayers go out to Mitch Troy who took a line drive of the right forearm from the bat of Mike Walls in the first inning of last nights game.

    Bucco's and Hy-Point met last week at Rockford Park and had a marathon of hits. So many hits, that it is a new record for "Most Hits in A Game Between Two Teams". 34 hits were compiled between the two teams last Friday. Bucco's had 12 hits and  Hy-Point had 22. The previous record was held by two teams. In 1966, Parkway beat Canada Dry 26-6 and 32 hits were banged out in this game. C. Wallace Insurance and Canada Dry also had 32 hits in 1993 in  a single game.

    Most Hits by a Team in a single game is 26 by Parkway in 1966.

   Andre Duffie needs two more Triples to set the record for most Triples in a season. He set the Freshman Record at Delaware with 9 and had 3 in one game vs. Hofstra May 1, 1995.

OFFENSIVE LEADERS

HR - Randy Hottes (Raiders)  5, Mike Walls (Home Budget) 3, Joe Fowler (Carney's) 2,   Troy Drummond (Hy-Point) 2

3B - Andre Duffie (Stars) 7, Mike Walls (Home Budget) 5, Chris Emery (Bucco's) 4, Joe Fowler (Carney's) 4

2B - Arron Lewis (Canada Dry) 6, Mike Botting (Carney's) 5, Mike Wilson (Stars) 5

RBI - Mike Walls (Home Budget) 22, Randy Hottes (Raiders) 18, Brent Underwood (Raiders) 18

Baseball's Buckland to Sign Pro Contract - Jul 18, 2008

Canada Dry Clinches first place in the Donofrio Division with five games left for tehm to play. Canada Dry is 8.5 games in front of the Bucco's and Carney's Governer's. bucco's take on Carney's at Canby Park this Thursday at 6:15.  This should be the biggest game of the week with the potential of a play-off spot riding on this game. Hy-Point will need to get hot in order to have a shot a play-off spot. They will need to win at least 3 out 5 to keep it interesting.

  Home Budget vs Stars at 18th and Van Buren on Friday will be the game to potentially flip 1st place one way or the other.

http://sports.espn.go.com/mlb/news/story?id=3476456

    Rob Bryson (William Penn/Seminole CC/Ex. Semi-Pro player) and 2 other players (With a player to be named later) were traded to the Cleveland Indians for Cy Young winner C.C. Sabathia today. Click on the link for the complete story.

 Year  Age Tm   Lg   Lvl Aff     W   L   W-L%  G   GS SV      IP   H    R   ER   HR  BB  SO  ERA  WHIP

 2007   19 HEL PIO Rk  MIL       3   0   1.000     18    4     8      54    49    19    16    2      12     70    2.67  1.13
 2008   20 WVA SAL A   MIL    3   2    .600      22    5     5      55    43    31    26    3       20    73    4.25  1.15

 1 Season          Rk                        3   0 1.000      18   4  8         54   49   19   16   2   12   70   2.67  1.13
 1 Season          A                          3   2  .600      22   5  5         55   43   31   26   3   20   73   4.25  1.15

 2 Seasons                                     6   2  .750      40   9  13        109  92   50   42   5   32  143  3.47  1.14

Gildeas beat Fedlock 2-1 to get into the quarter  finals. Chad Jenkins (Cecil County) threw seven innings and compiled 11 strike outs along the way. Raiders went on to dominate the rest of the tournament by beating Fairfax Heat 7-2, Greenbriar 19-4 and winning the championship in impressive manner with a 16-2 win over Fedlock.

Cory Holliday, Jason Wyatt, Dan Cleary, Adam Mulderig all had successful offensive stats throughout the tournament. Matt Blazinski, Josh Kreummer. Doug Eitelman, Brett Underwood and Jimmy Conroy also helped Gildeas to take the title for the Tallgren Games Tournament for Leukemia.

  Andre Duffy was there but did his best impression of Barbaro (Sorry all you horse fans) and gimped his way back to the dugout. He is expected to heal, so they will not have to put him down any time soon.  Get better soon.

Mark

Banning   Left  325'     Center  402'    Right  325'

Delcastle  Left 325'      Center  405'    Right  325'

Canby      Left  311' (to the hill)     Center (Tree) 347'     Right  (Parking Lot) 588'

Rockford  Left  338' (road)      Center  (Trees) 530'     Right  (Parking Lot)  465'      Tower  551'

18th and Van Buren    Left (BBall court)  369'      Center (Softball field)  414'    Right (Trees) 306'

   Delaware Semi Pro player, Troy O'Neal, has created a new Bat company located right in our own backyard. Troy did the leg work to find the best wood availble for turning bats. He found a company in Pennsylvania that provides American White Ash to the other big companies and he went to Canada to acquire Candian Rock Maple (Sugar Maple). The latest wood of players choice, Canadian Birch, has also been brought Hockessin for spinning bats. Troy hopes to compete, with and surpass the big companies by providing the best quality bat for a great price.  

     WILMINGTON - After many years of changing the face of baseball in upstate Delaware, Bob "Goose" Gildea has been inducted into the Delaware Baseball Hall of Fame.

     "It's about time brutha haa, know what I'm sayin' ha . . . . . . this ain't my first rodeo haa, haa!" said Gildea, who has coached the Gildea's Raiders for over a century. "Every year we play an integral part in the preparation of World Championship Major League Baseball teams and they're run for a world title. I mean, if we didn't schedule these teams, know what I'm sayin', I mean they would be in no way be able to adjust for the season, know what I'm sayin' brutha, haa!"

     Each season, the Gildea's Raiders make their annual Florida spring training trip and play professional teams to prepare for the season. Several Gildea's players have signed professional contracts during the trip.

     "It's all about a good time brutha, haa. It's all about the pride of wearin' that orange shirt daddy," added Gildea. "The orange is legendary with hard nosed ballplayin' and killer times in the Florida sun brutha! The trip is about winning and having a good time daddy, meetin' on the tarmac and rollin' out to play some ball. We don't even worry about practice, we just rip brutha - lock and load, know what I'm sayin' huuuh huuuh!"

     "I'm proud to be a part of the hall - truly daddy, I mean I've been to the mall, now I been to the hall, haa! said Goose, who is now enshrined in the hallowed halls of baseball forever.

THIS ARTICLE IS FICTITIOUS IN NATURE (BUT GOOSE WOULD'VE SAID THIS STUFF ANYWAYS) CONGRATULATIONS GOOSE (WE ARE PROUD TO HAVE BEEN A PART OF YOUR LEGEND). 

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