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Yes. The pitching resets as you move levels (i.e. District to Sectionals, Sectionals to State, etc.)

Gladiator Baseball is looking for coaches to train 14U and 15U Fall teams. The qualified applicants must have prior coaching experience or played college ball or higher. This is a paying gig. But don't be in it just for the money. You must love the game and love seeing kids grow and develop. Please PM or call Dave Morrow at 658-9279. www.gladiatorbaseball.org

11/12 will definitely be West End. They are loaded. Juniors will probably be West End. Seniors will easily be West End as well. Juniors will definitely NOT be West End. Not only will West End have its hands full with Silsbee, but Tomball and Bridge City are just too strong. Seniors will not be West End either because most of their better players are playing select.

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Red Team is going to Memphis. The Blue team is playing at Lamar Tournament.

Texas Sting - mostly West Brook Freshmen, are in the tournament (play Saturday at noon at Lamar and 6:30pm West Brook). Gladiators 15/16U team consists of players from across SE Texas - Barbers Hill to LCM and PNG/Nederland to Silsbee. Texas Mojo is from Livingston - also in the tourney.

Gladiator Baseball is organizing an 18U summer tournament team. This team will play in various Elite Baseball tournaments across the South. Interested players, please e-mail [email protected] or call Dave Morrow at 658-9279.

Gladiator Baseball will be holding tryouts for its 16U baseball teams on Sunday, April 19 at 4pm at Kelly High School. We will also have tryouts on Saturday, April 25 at 4pm and finally on Sunday, April 26 at 4pm at Kelly High School. These tryouts are open to all players in Southeast Texas,/Southwest Louisiana, 16 or under as of May 1. Gladiator Baseball is dedicated to preparing players for their varsity programs initially, then ultimately moving on to college baseball. We plan to schedule games against the best competition possible. This will be a fun, but intense baseball experience for all players. As for costs, we have a sponsor who will help with the costs. So fees will be minimal in comparison to the baseball value you receive. We will not let cost be a barrier to your participation. For more information, contact Dave Morrow at 658-9279 or [email protected].

Gladiator Baseball is looking to expand its teams in the 16U and 18U ages. As a result, we are looking for experienced coaches to manage a Select baseball team for those age groups. This is a paying job. Pay depends on qualifications. We are seeking coaches who have experience in college baseball as players/coaches, high school coaching experience, or other select team coaching experience. Interested candidates should e-mail at [email protected], or call Dave at 658-9279. We are looking to fill positions immediately. Please respond soon.

Gladiator Baseball is forming a U16 baseball team to play tournaments around the Texas/Louisiana area. The objective of this team is to expose the players to high quality competition. The team will begin competition following completion of high school baseball season. The team will be trained by Morgan Walker and Jed McBride. Primary coaching duties will be handled by Lamar graduate Wes Koch. This program will be focused not only on winning games, but more importantly, improving the level of play for all its players. There will be an open tryout for the team in Mid-Late April. We plan on 2 weekend tournaments per month, from May through July. Last tournament will be in mid-July. As part of this team, we anticipate playing in at least one weekend tournament at Vincent Beck stadium. The plan is to also take those interested in Fall baseball, to enter a team in the prestigious the Kyle Chapman league in Houston beginning late August. This team has a major sponsor, so costs will be minimal. This team will be a supplement to summer leagues like Senior Little League and Babe Ruth, not a substitute for them. If interested, please e-mail [email protected] or call 658-9279. This team is open to all 16 year olds and under in the Beaumont/East Texas/SW Louisiana area. We are looking for the best of the best. Gladiator Baseball has a solid history of baseball excellence. This team will continue the Gladiator tradition.

Little League Rules changed. It is not just at BCLL, but nationally. For more info go to www.littleleague.org.

Summer team. Play tournaments after high school is over. Maybe go into Fall if team has the desire to carry it into Fall.

Sorry. My e-mail is [email protected].

I am looking to establish a U16 select team to play in Texas area tournaments. I am wanting to have the best area players on the roster. Uniforms and tournament fees will be covered. You just have to cover travel costs. If interested, message me.

Who are some of the up and coming freshmen and sophomores out there? What names should we be watching for in the future?

Yes......and LCM scored 2 in the first. What is your point? I said both teams needed to find more depth at pitching. How many pitchers does Kelly return from varsity last year? Prewitt is the only one with meaningful innings under his belt. Also, which hitters on Kelly should the opposing pitcher be worried about? My other point, no dominant (power) hitters on Kelly. Both teams should do very well this year.. Kelly will win a lot of games getting guys on, then having someone come in behind them to knock them in. By the way, your one run in the 1st and two in the 2nd point get diminished when you say LCM trotted 3 pitchers out there that have never pitched at the varsity level before.

Went to the LCM-Kelly scrimmage Monday. Both teams looked in pretty good form. Kelly has a scrappy bunch of players. Prewitt was pretty good starting pitcher. Not a lot of depth at pitching though. No dominant hitters either. Just hard working, scrappy players. LCM, as advertised, hit the ball well. Cloeren and Leger are very good players. But, pitching was very underwhelming. Dallas Brown is a lefty who was around the strike zone. But Kelly hit him. In fact, the LCM pitchers in general were around the strike zone. But not a lot of velocity or craftiness. LCM should do well this year. If Kelly can find more depth at pitching, they should do ok as well.

No respect for High School coaches is a two way street...in today's world there is a lot more knowledge of the sport fundamentals and a lot more of daddy's money spent on professional lessons than ever before. So where does a high school coach hibernate during the summer? Theres is no question that select or tournament baseball, basketball has evolved and developed better athletes than "most" high school programs. A lot of high school coaches are stuck in the sixties and will not accept the fact that daddy's money provides them with some of their best talent. Some kids will develop bad habits during the high school season and some stay away from high school sports altogether. Did your high school coach have it right way back then? probably not, how many coaches know how to teach pitching and will you turn your high school coach loose on your boy.....? I agree with you. High school athletics is a two-way sport. I believe coaches need to make more of an effort to get to summer games of their athletes. Better yet, go to the younger age leagues and begin creating the "culture" for your program by sharing knowledge or plays, in the case of football and basketball, with the coaches so the kids coming into high school have been introduced to the "system". BUT, we have big problem. As was pointed out above, many coaches are teachers first, coaches second. If they tried to live off their coaching pay, and not their teacher pay, they would starve. These professional lessons that Daddy's money pays for are being instructed by coaches who focus solely on coaching. Some of whom make upwards of $40-50,000 per year as professional coaches. Unfortunately, many schools and districts cannot afford a pure coach for every sport, whose only focus is coaching their team. Therefore, we have to live with the system we currently have (coaches who are teachers first). Until the economics improve in these school systems, we will have to understand that comparisons made between "professional coaches" and school-paid coaches are unfair comparisons. Sometimes I wonder if the frustration some feel about their coaches is because they are used to their money "buying" playing time for kids in youth athletics. When kids get to high school, they realize money can't buy playing time as easily as it used to.

Anyone aware of tryouts for a summer select team(U15-U16)? I know high school is what most are occupying their time with now. However, are there any summer teams organizing now so that teams can be ready to play after high school ball done? Willing to travel.

Mr. Ump, I agree we should stop the sensationalism, but I disagree that the discussion of umpires and treatment towards them should end here. I am not a high school umpire. My only umpire experience is little league. But I have been amazed and to a degre, frustrated with the way some coaches and parents treat umpires. The way parents berate umpires/referees from the stands, to me is apalling. Even at JV and freshman/sophomore games. For some reason, coaches and parents think that because you accept a pay check, that gives them the right to be verbally abuse the official. Perhaps this is a topic for a different thread, but remember folks, at $40 or $50 per game, these officilas are not getting rich here. They do it for the love of the game. If they have to constantly be berated by you, the love of the game begins to fade fast. Then who would call the balls and strikes..you? In our Little League, we have all coaches umpire at least 4 games a year. It gives them a different perspective on how dificult it is to umpire. As a result, we have no problems with verbal abuse. Maybe the people in Tyler will learn how valuable the men in blue are!

And Schrapps.....Kelly's 9th grade team is a scrappy bunch. With Parker and Schrapps the WB Kelly 9th grade game goes a different way.

I hope you are talking about the JV team because Kelly's 9th graders smoked Silsbee. In fact, Kelly's 9th grade team is very competitve. Would be even more so, but Schrapps is playing varsity as a freshman. In three years, that 9th grade team will be one of the better small schools in the area. Not a lot of height, but extremely quick. Phillip Parker will be an All-State point guard by his senior year.

FYI Connor McDonald is at Westbrook now. Transferred there in the Fall.

What about Mike Long? He coaches Kelly. Former PNG coach.

Beaumont Baseball/Amelia West End league is having a Fall ball league for 2009 ages 13-14 and 2009 ages 15-17. we are interested in adding more players to the league (we currently have 3 teams per age group). We also would like to find teams to inter-league with. Pretty laid back and low-key league, yet competitive. Good opportunity for kids to keep their skills sharp over the Fall season. If interested, please e-mail Dave Morrow at [email protected].