Santa Rosa American Little League: Welcome
Season 2008
League Line 522-3571
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Tuesday, September 30
New Fall Ball Pics for '08
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Tuesday, September 23
An Unfortunate Event
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Wednesday, September 17
Save the Date?
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Wednesday PM, October 29, 2008. This will be the date for our annual State of the League presentation. Last year the presentation was at the Glaser Center in Santa Rosa, but this time it will be at the Cardinal Newman High School Events Center on Old Redwood Highway. The meeting will start at 7 pm. All people associated with SRALL are strongly encouraged to participate.
Wednesday, September 3
Download Your Favorite 2008 Season Photos
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Are there any photos from the 2008 SRALL season that you would like to keep? If so, now is the time to download those photos to your personal computer. Soon it will be time for fall cleaning and most of those photos will disappear from the website in preperation for the 2009 season. If there are any of those great photos from Mr. Brooke Clyde that you would like in high resolution, you can contact the webmaster and he will put you in touch with the photographer.
Saturday, July 19
2008 All Star Photos
Paul McGavin of XPortraits was taking photos at many of the SRALL All-Star games. His photos are for sale at the website link above. Check it out to see if your favorite All-Star was caught in action.
Wednesday, August 13
Fall Ball Photography
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Thursday, August 7
Fall Ball is Here!
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Monday, July 14
SRALL Majors All Stars Fantastic Season Stalls in Healdsburg
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The SRALL Majors All Star team played their way to the final round of the Major League District Finals in Healdsburg. In Monday night's game they staked themselves an early lead courtesy of a prodigious, 2nd inning, Brandon Miller, grand slam home run. The relentless attack of Petaluma Valley's offense however, ended up being the deciding factor. Petaluma Valley won the game by a final score of 14-5 and SRALL's great season is now complete.
Congratulations to all of the players and coaches. You have provided the League with much excitement and pride throughout this memorable tournament season.
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SRALL Majors All Stars are District 35 West Champions
"It was the worst of times, it was the best of times"..."what goes down, must come up"... Maybe that's not quite how these famous phrases were penned, but it aptly describes the play of our SRALL Majors All Star Team the last two games. Where on their first attempt to beat Mark West on Tuesday, base runners were running into unneccessary outs, on Wednesday evening they were stealing bases. Lazy fly balls and weak grounders turned into solid line drives. Balls batted by Mark West that were finding gaps between players and gaps between gloves and the ground were now sure outs. The results of the turnaround? A superb 9-2 victory against an outstanding Mark West team, the District 35 West Division Majors All Star Championship and a trip to Healdsburg on Saturday to play for the Major League District Championship!
It took no time for SRALL to demonstrate that Tuesday's loss was long gone and it was a new day at Andrews Field. Jamie Iroz opened the game with a double. Then Brandon Miller did what Brandon Miller does. Two run home run and before the game had seen its first out, SRALL was up 2-0.
In the bottom of the first Jake Hunt took the mound for SRALL. Jake showed a few early jitters and walked the first batter he faced. That walk turned into a run following a well placed bunt and a ground out, but a Mark West runner was stranded at third and SRALL maintained the lead, 2-1.
Ryan Frenzel opened the second with a single, but was stranded as Mark West recorded three straight strikeouts. In the bottom of the frame Jake gave up one more walk, but no runners came home and two more K's were added to his one from the first inning.
In the top of the third the floodgates opened. Rylan Kobre and Miller doubled back to back, resulting in a Kobre run. Miller then took third on a follow up single by Torrance Fleming, and home on a single by Joe Beneducci. Paydon Miramontes was accorded a walk that sent Fleming to third and Beneducci to second. Another single followed, this time by Ryan Frenzel, sending Fleming home and Beneducci on to third. The innings first two outs came on a 6-3 double play, but Mason Robinson quickly stepped in to pick up the hit parade and singled home Miramontes. The SRALL half of the inning was finally halted, but by then our boys had posted five more runs and led 7-2.
In the bottom of the inning Jake started quickly, striking out the first two batters faced. Mark West then picked up a single and scored its second run following a stolen base and two more singles. The inning, and for that matter all Mark West scoring, was quelled by one more Hunt strikeout.
SRALL was not satisfied with their five run cushion and added tally number eight in the top of the fourth. It came courtesy of another Beneducci RBI as he picked up Fleming who had previously singled and stolen second.
The bottom of the fourth saw two more Mark West runners stranded as Hunt left the last two batters shaking their heads following strikeouts. That gave Hunt a total of eight strikeouts in four innings.
The fifth inning was relatively uneventful as SRALL was unable to add to it's run tally. Ryan Frenzel was sent in to take over for Hunt in the bottom of the inning, and that he did. He gave up a double to his first batter faced, but then settled in and recorded three straight outs, two by way of the K.
The top of the sixth saw one more run plated by SRALL, but everyone was anxiously waiting the bottom of the inning to see if there would be any type of miracle comeback mounted by the team from the north side. Frenzel put an end to any such speculation. Following a first base gift to Mark West's first batter, he recorded three straight strikeouts to wrap up the District 35 West Majors Championship for SRALL!
Congratulations are in order for all of the teams who participated in the tournaments hosted by SRALL. More congratulations are due to the entire SRALL community who pulled off a minor miracle by coming together and hosting two great tournaments simultaneously. But, of course, the greatest praise goes out to all of our SRALL ballplayers for whom it is all about.
...Thanks to Bonnie Beneducci and Sandy Miller who contributed great photos of the Championship celebration. Those photos, and others, can be seen by clicking here.
Monday, January 7
SRALL Parent's Code of Conduct
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It's never too early to review the Parent's Code of Conduct for participation in Little League. Take a few minutes and find out how you can make the environment at our Little League fields pleasurable for everyone.