2012 WORLD SERIES RESULTS

FRESHMAN DIVISION (12 & UNDER) Southaven, MS

WINNER: Central Florida Gators – Orange Park, Florida

RUNNER-UP: Oxford Rebels – Oxford, Mississippi

Final Game Score: Central Florida Gators 13 vs. Oxford Rebels 0

Recap: By Chris Van Tuyl

As manager of the 12-and-under Central Florida Gators, Mark Roberts has many duties. And one of those is scheduling.
“The NABF (National Amateur Baseball Federation World Classic) was one of the first tournaments that we put on our schedule (for 2012),” said Roberts. “We definitely weren’t disappointed with the facilities and how they ran the tournament – it was first class.”
The same might be said for the performance of the Gators, who capped an undefeated run through their division at Southaven's Snowden Grove Park with a 13-0 championship-game victor over the Mississippi Rebels on July 6.
Whether or not Central Florida got its fill of the Memphis area, the Gators, with the win, have also qualified for a berth in the fifth annual National Youth Baseball Championship at Gameday Baseball’s First Tennessee Fields in neighboring Cordova. Representing the NABF, the Gators will participate in the 12-team tournament that’s being held August 24-27.

 

SOPHOMORE DIVISION (14 & UNDER) Youngstown, Ohio

Champion: Maryland Monarchs (MD)
Runner Up: Ohio Glaciers (OH)
Final Game Score: Maryland Monarchs 9 vs. Ohio Glaciers 8

MVP: Lavale Hodges – Maryland Monarchs
Batting Champion: Frank Fraschetti – 19 @ Bats, .579 avg.

Recap: By Mike Peters, Capital Gazette, July 28, 2012

The Maryland Monarchs didn’t have trouble with many teams. It figured, of course, the one which gave them the toughest test was standing in the way of their national title. Four losses to Severna Park were enough, though. Lavale Hodges made sure of it.

Hodges’ walk-off home run on an 0-2 pitch with two outs in the bottom of the ninth inning gave the Monarchs a 4-3 victory over the Green Hornets to reach the National Amateur Baseball Federation 14-U final. The Monarchs held on for a 9-8 win over the Ohio Glaciers in the final on Sunday to avenge a tournament-opening loss and add to the program’s recent stretch of dominance.

“When we were 12U, (we) went to Cooperstown, N.Y.,” Monarchs coach Dave Cassard said. “When we went into the amateur section of the Hall of Fame, there was a Monarchs hat — the one we were wearing — for the 2009 amateur championship team with Bernie Walter. Steve Miller and the 17Us won it last year. Our goal was to get into the NABF and carry on what the organization has done.”

With solid pitching and a powerful middle of the lineup, the Monarchs (39-12) survived a 9-1 loss to the Glaciers (68-3) and played through a grueling, weather-affected schedule — one game Friday, two on Saturday and three more on Sunday — to bring another title back to Anne Arundel County.

After the loss to the Glaciers, the Monarchs won the next five games and outscored the opposition, 47-22. Zack Stoll, who’ll attend Mount St. Joseph, pitched 11 innings — including seven against Severna Park in the semifinal — without giving up a walk. Andy Rozyolwicz threw 11.2 innings, and his DeMatha teammate, Bradley Thaxton, pitched four of his seven in the title game. Keith Parks (Old Mill) and Matthew Looser (Arundel) made their marks on the mound as well.

The offense wasn’t bad, either; Hodges, an Archbishop Spalding freshman and the tournament’s Most Valuable Player, followed a pair of three-pitch strikeouts by Severna Park’s Tyler Blohm by clubbing a home run to end the marathon on his way to a near-.500 average. St. Vincent Pallotti’s Robert Colvin went 7 for 11 during the final day, and Aidan Fowler — a sophomore at Annapolis — drove in four runs with two-run doubles in the fourth and fifth innings in the title game.

The Glaciers got to the Monarchs’ Parks and Rozyolwicz during the early innings of the finals. But the Monarchs put together four-run innings in the fourth and fifth — sparked by Fowler’s doubles — to take a 9-7 lead into the seventh. Thaxton was able to nail down the win and seal the Monarchs’ latest title.

“They’ve got an experience under their belts that’s going to help them in the future,” said Cassard, a Southern graduate who played at Towson. “Over the last three years, we wanted to get them ready for the future. For the most part, they’re ready for high school.”

They beat a team from Brooklyn, N.Y., North Coast — another Ohio team — and the Waterford Nationals (N.Y.) before getting to Severna Park. The Monarchs trailed Waterford by five runs in the third before rallying for a 12-6 win to make the semifinals.

Once there, they combined to shut down the Green Hornets — who entered the tournament with a 59-4 record — behind seven innings from Stoll. The plan was to use him for four innings, but he kept telling Cassard he was good for another. Finally, Hodges broke a 3-3 tie in the ninth.

“We had to go through Severna Park to win it, so I think that says a lot about Anne Arundel County baseball,” Cassard said. “Severna Park was the team I really didn’t want to run into up there. … It says a lot of things about the way they run that team and how Dave Harding has done.”

2012 NABF SOPHOMORE DIVISION ALL-TOURNAMENT TEAM

 

JUNIOR DIVISION (16 & Under) Northville, Michigan

Champion: Creekside Fitness (Youngstown, OH)
Runner-Up: SAYO Grays (Brooklyn, NY)
Final Game Score: Creekside Fitness 9 vs. SAYO Grays 8

MVP: Zack Miller- Creekside Fitness
Batting Champion: Carmen Caruso- Schenectady Indians

Recap:

The final batter decided this NABF Junior World Series in a nail-bitter featuring Creekside Fitness and SAYO Grays. Right out of the gates, the Grays scored three in the top of the 1st, while Creekside took a few innings to get things going as it was their 3rd game of the day. Fitness scored four runs in five hits during the home half of the 3rd. Although, SAYO rebounded in their very next chance…four runs in the top of the 4th to reclaim the lead 7-5. The score stayed 7-5 until the 6th, where Creekside tied it up at seven a piece.

The bottom of the last inning was magnificent as SAYO went in with an 8-7 lead, after lead-off batter Austin Nieves was walked and then later scored on a sac fly. Christian Lowery of Fitness hit a single to right to start the bottom of the inning; he later reached 2nd on a sac bunt. After a ground out to short, SAYO was the probable champion with only one out to go. Billy Goodall forced Grays’ pitcher into a full count, then made his way to first on a ball four. Scott Pierce then came up to bat and hit a base knock, his third single of the game, tying the ball game. Next man up, tournament MVP Zack Miller, smacked the ball down the right field line in walk-off double fashion for the Creekside Fitness to be claimed the NABF Junior World Series Champions.

Carmen Caruso dominated the competition with a .600 batting average on his way to the tournament’s Batting Champion award.

2012 Junior Division All-Tournament Team

C C	Josh Palacios Ryan Miller	SAYO Grays Creekside Fitness
1B	Zack Wilds	Northville Broncos
2B	Kenton Harbor	Allen Baseball-Texas
3B	Austin O’Boyle	Toronto Mets
SS	Henry Moore	Team Cincinnati
P P P P P P	Trent Collins Nolan Waldeck Nick Fanti Kane Durkin Liam Carter Emmanuel Castellano	Creekside Fitness Northville Broncos B45-Marrucci Creekside Fitness Top Tier Chicago SAYO Grays
OF OF OF OF OF OF	Ryan Megyasi Johnny Gonzalez Daniel Procopio Carmen Caruso Aaron Floyd Ty Palomaki	Creekside Fitness SAYO Grays Toronto Mets Schenectady Indians **Batting Champion B45-Marrucci La Plata
DH	Kurtis Kuzmail	Ohio Glaciers
UT UT	Frankie Farry Tyler Booher	Top Tier Chicago Kuboff-Youngstown

 

HIGH SCHOOL DIVISION (17 & UNDER) Knoxville, Tennessee

Champion: Top Tier Baseball of Chicago (IL)
Runner-up: Allen Baseball (TX)
Final Game Score: Top Tier Baseball of Chicago 7 vs. Allen Baseball 5

MVP: Anthony Drago – Top Tier Baseball of Chicago
Batting Champion: Austin Frick – Allen Baseball

Recap: 2012, Knoxville News Sentinel Co.

Top Tier Baseball of Chicago has a 44-page media guide, and it has a simple slogan on the cover: “Expect Greatness.” That’s pretty much what Top Tier produced the past four days in the NABF High School World Series in Knoxville.

Top Tier defeated Allen (Texas) Baseball 7-5 on Sunday afternoon at the University of Tennessee’s Lindsey Nelson Stadium for the NABF title for 17 & Under High School Division National Championship Series in their first attempt.

“It was a great experience,” Top Tier coach Todd Fine said. “The kids had a blast, great facilities, great entertainment, great hospitality. The kids really loved it.”

Top Tier, which was started in 2003, fields 22 travel teams based out of Chicago. They travel the country in search of the best competition. The 17-under NABF World Series champions have  30-9 record after Sunday’s victory and have won 21 of their last 23 games.

“We try to put ourselves in the best position to play a national schedule,” Fine said.

So does Houston-based Allen Baseball, which was runner-up in the NABF High School World Series last year in Knoxville. Allen went 6-1 in this year’s tournament.

“We’re fortunate to be here,” Allen coach Skip Allen said. “Anytime you get a great group of kids and a great group of parents and you’re successful at the same time, it makes it worthwhile.”

It was certainly a worthwhile trip from Chicago for Top Tier which displayed a deep pitching staff during the NABF World Series. Kevin Smith, Tyler Feece and Mike Yacko combined for a five-hitter in Sunday’s championship game; Feece and Yacko had not pitched before the title game.

While Feece gave up a walk, single, and earned run in a relief role starting the sixth inning, Yacko was almost perfect after that.  Yacko relieved Feece with one out in the sixth. He retired Austin Frick on a groundout, ended the sixth with a called third strike, and struck out the side in the seventh (two on called third strikes).

“It felt good to be out there,” Yacko said. “It felt good to go out there and strike everybody out and win the championship.”

Fine knew Top Tier had plenty of pitching depth.

“For us, we tried to save our pitching till the end,” Fine said. “We feel like based on the teams we played, we were the freshest (with the pitching staff). We backed our staff up and kind of end-loaded it.”

Frick was the batting champion of the NABF World Series with a .579 average, while Top Tier first baseman Anthony Drago was the tournament’s MVP. Drago went 0-for-2 with two walks in the championship game.

Leadoff batter Anthony Ray, Top Tier’s center fielder, was 2-for-4 with a triple, RBI, and scored a run.

“It was a great tournament,” Ray said. “We did well all-around: good pitching, catchers, and defense.”

2012 HIGH SCHOOL DIVISION ALL-TOURNAMENT TEAM

 

SENIOR DIVISION (18 & UNDER) Struthers, Ohio

Champion: Astro Falcons (Struthers, OH)
Runner-Up: Houston Raiders (Houston, TX)
Final Game Score: Astro Falcons 8 vs. Houston Raiders 7

MVP: GJ Senchak – Astro Falcons
Batting Champion: Gary Tesch – Houston Raiders

Recap:

The Falcons did not miss out on their rebuttal as they topped the Raiders 8-7. Jake Sarabia and Conner Rye lead the Raiders to an early 2nd inning lead after they each drove in a run. In the bottom of the 3rd however, Tyler Gentile had a lead-off double, then was driven in by a James Coated single. Coates scored later on from the help of a fly ball error out in left. In the 4th, Houston broke the tie after Bryce Stark and Josh Leonharde got on base, then (after a GJ Senchak relief of starting Astro pitcher Chris Watschak) Senchak’s first batter Dylan Paul hit a two-run single. Although, in the bottom of the 4th Falcons’ lead-off hitter Chris Watschak hit a single, as six of the first seven batters reached base safely, causing six runs to be scored, and an 8-4 lead. The Raiders would later score in the 7th. In the 9th, Senchak would be replaced by Brendan Cox, and he finished out the game, receiving a save for his efforts. Dylan Paul had three hits, and Jake Sarabia had three runs batted in for Houston. Adam Becker and James Coates each had three hits in the Astro Falcons’ first ever NABF Senior Division World Series. GJ Senchak and Matt Unkefer each had two wins in the tournament, with MVP Senchak winning his two games in the semi-finals and the championship. Gary Tesch was named Batting Champion after hitting a whopping .621 batting average in 29 at-bats for his Houston Raiders.

2012 Senior Division All-Tournament Team

 

COLLEGE DIVISION (22 & UNDER) Toledo, OH

Champion: Michigan Bulls (Lavonia, MI)
Runner-Up: Toledo Hawks (Toledo, OH)
Final Game Score: Michigan Bulls 14 vs. Toledo Hawks 4

MVP: Patrick Mackenzie
Batting Champion: Patrick Mackenzie

Recap:

The Michigan Bulls and the Toledo Hawks battled it out in Toledo, OH for the 2012 NABF College World Series back on Sunday, August 12th. The game was a back and forth stalemate for the first few innings, until a four-run 4th inning pushed the Bulls ahead, and they never looked back as the final score was 14-4! Michigan went undefeated during the entire tournament, led by tournament MVP and Batting Champion Patrick Mackenzie the shortstop out of Central Michigan University; he posted a fielding percentage of .987 and had a batting average of .654 going 17 for 26 with 13 runs, 3 rbi, and 3 doubles throughout the tournament. The Bulls’ pitching was stellar as well led by a complete game performance by Wedesky in the championship and two all-tournament pitchers Mark Heard and Chris Rice.

2012 College Division All-Tournament Team

C C	Daniel Delaney Jacob Rhodes	Crystal Lake Cardinals Michigan Bulls
1B	Brad Lineberry	Michigan Bulls
2B	Scott Fox	Greenville Spartans
3B	Matt Vannett	Toledo Hawks
SS	Patrick Mackenzie	Michigan Bulls ***MVP **Batting Champion
P P P P P P	Josh Houston James Perrino Christopher Anderson Mark Heard Chris Rice Josh Harris	St. Louis Dodgers Dix Hill Dodgers Chicago Zephyrs Michigan Bulls Michigan Bulls Crystal Lake Cardinals
OF OF OF OF OF OF	Shawn Ullrich Logan Regnier Nick Regnier Will Krug Sam Fischer Ban Hammer	St. Louis Dodgers Michigan Bulls Michigan Bulls Crystal Lake Cardinals Toledo Hawks Toledo Hawks
DH DH	Eddie Reese Shane Wagner	Ohio Glaciers Ohio Glaciers
UT	Ryan Williams	Toledo Hawks

 

MAJOR DIVISION (UNLIMITED) - BUFFALO, NEW YORK

CHAMPION : Chicago Clout, Illinois - Skyscraper League
RUNNER-UP: Pittsburgh - St.John's - Lefty's, PA. - Pittsburgh Federation Baseball League
FINAL GAME SCORE: Chicago Clout 8 V/S Pittsburgh St. Johns 2

MVP and Batting Champion: Armand Candea , .545 B.A.

Recap:
2012, NINETY-NINTH NABF CHAMPIONSHIP SERIES

The Major Division Championship Series moved to a new location this season, Buffalo , New York. The host for nearly 30 years, Derby City Baseball, Inc. of Louisville , Kentucky, with the approval of the NABF Board, passed the torch to the Buffalo MUNY League. The Buffalonians graciously accepted the challenge to host Americas' most prestigious amateur baseball championship. Nine Regional champion teams from across the nation and Host Team , Murray's Diesel of the MUNY League made up the 2012 ten team modified round robin schedule .

The Chicago Clout defeated the St.John's - Lefty's 8 to 2 in the Championship game at Sal Maglie Stadium in Niagara Falls , NY; to claim their second NABF National Championship. The Clout exploded for five runs in the top of first inning to sail away with the victory. J P Gagne pitched the complete game victory for the Clout and Armond Candea led the offence for Chicago , earning the triple crown : selected for All Tournament Team,Tournament MVP and Batting Champion , with a .545 batting average, for series play.

In the first semi-final games the St.John's Lefty's defeated the host team Murray's Diesel 14 - 8 The Dieselmen tied the game 8 to 8 going into the 7' TH inning , but a 3 run triple by St. Johns player/coach Krist in that inning proved too much for the Diesel to overcome. Murray's Diesel of Buffalo MUNY League was the only team to go 4 and 0 in the round robin elimination pool play.

The clout took a 8-0 lead over the Beecher Muskies , Kankakee, IL.in the other semi-final game and coasted in with a 9 -5 victory.

Other Championship Series contenders were the Milford Hunters out of Wallingford, Connecticut; The Purdue Chicks from Salisbury, Maryland ; Fedell's Mechanics from Bridgeport, CT. ;The Orlando Storm, Orlando, Florida; Portland Rockets, , Portland , Indiana; and the Pepino's Pizza Team from Sparta, Michigan.

Notes: Each team battled their way thru the series and played well. As far as Buffalo weather goes, the tournament experienced a littler bit of everything , 60 degrees at night , 80 plus during the day and a little bit of the wet stuff. Overall perfect conditions for baseball. The rain delay on Friday kept the tournament committee on their toes ,and it was resolved, with little or no delay in play. Congratulations to all teams for games well played. Again ,our congratulation to Paul Wolfe, President , his Officers and Staff of Buffalo MUNY League for all the hard work and resources provided to make this annual championship possible.

NABF membership looks forward to our up-coming 100' TH Championship Series.

2012 Major Division All-Tournament Team

C C	Ritch Satcho  Andrew Russo	St.John's Lefty's Murray's Diesel
1B	Eric Schlitter	Fedell's Mechanics
2B	Derrik Zeroski	St. John's Lefty's
3B	Joe Ruge	Chicago Clout
SS	Josh Owens	Orlando Storm
P P P P P P	J P Gagne Ed Kohout Dan Bollenbacher Vince Rizzi Brian Warheit Zach Stevens	Chicago Clout Murray's Diesel Portland Rockets Beecher Muskies St. John's Lefty"s Peppino's Pizza
OF OF OF OF OF OF	Jordan Gowe Ryan Manning Mike Lucas Randy Moley  Mike Henderson Matt Wietlispach	Purdue Chicks Peppino's Pizza Milford Hunters Murray's Diesel Beecher Muskies Chicago Clout
DH	Armand Candea, MVP & B.C.-.545	Chicago Clout
UT UT	Jim Pasquine Rob. Luehrsen	St. John's Lefty's Murray's Diesel

 

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