Happy Holidays

To all of our UR families, fans, and especially the players - Good luck on final exams, papers, and projects as you wind down this semester - enjoy the holiday season and the time off - Get ready for a great spring 2008!!

We wish everyone a happy and joyous holiday season!!

Looking forward to this spring - UAA tournament in Florida, Liberty League Regular Season and Tournament, and NCAA D3 Baseball tournament!!!

High and lofty goals, but this team has that kind of potential this year!!

All the best from the Kahovec family to all of you!

Blue Team wins World Series

The Gold team won the suspended game and the Blue team won the regularly scheduled game to claim the championship. The only thing left for the fall season is the alumni game in a few weeks.

There is rumour of more cuts this week, but that will remain to be seen.

My best guess is that they are at 31 currently and will need to get to about 26 for the spring.

Alex Gamoran has decided not to play this year as he seeks to complete a semester abroad. That helps coach out with cuts, but I will miss Alex. He is a very polite young man, and a good teammate. He was well liked by his teammates, I wish him the best.

Game suspended in 12th, play Saturday AM

The game last night saw the Blue team get a big lead, the Gold team rallied furiously to tie late in the game, and they played until darkness halted the contest at the conclusion of the 12th inning.

The boys go at it again this morning. If the Gold team can secure the victory, they will play another game in the series immediately following the suspended game. If the Blue team is victorious, then they will continue with a scrimmage.

Both teams wanted the game yesterday, late in the game, we saw Pete and Blair pitching for their teams through scoreless extra innings and both teams will be short on pitching today.

Blue team leads series 3-1

The Blue team took a commanding lead in the series by winning last Friday and Sunday, Sandwiched in between were 2 games with Finger Lakes Community college.

Next game is Friday, the Blue team could wrap it up, but Gold is strategizing for a comeback.

Many parents were around the games this past weekend, including Cannon's from Chicago, Brocks from Pittsburgh, and the usual suspects that live locally....

Several met at Champps in Eastview Mall for dinner after Saturday's games.

There were also quite a few parents in support of the freshman class... I remember being in their shoes only a very short while ago! They were concerned about cuts, would their son make the team???

Florida update - We are scheduled to play Skidmore in Florida as part of our Liberty League schedule. What this means is that there will not be an off day on Monday as in years past. We would travel to the Tampa/St. Pete area, play 1 game on Saturday, then 2 against Skidmore on both Sunday and Monday, and then move to Sanford for the UAA tournament starting on Tuesday. Let's hope that we don't draw the doubleheader early in the UAA tournament and that we have pitching available for both Emory and Wash U.

Rumor was that there will be cuts this week, Coach told all the boys that they were making all those decisions difficult, due to the hustle and performance displayed on the diamond. Best of Luck to all the boys!

That's all for now, Blue vs. Gold wraps up this weekend!!!

BLUE AND GOLD WORLD SERIES TIED AT 1-1

The Blue and Gold World Series is tied at 1 game a piece. The boys were drafted onto a team and now play for bragging rights and a chance to avoid heartbreak hill.

The teams were divided as follows:

Blue - Ryan Sullivan, John Fishback, Mike Kotler, Ned Chanatry, Justin Long, Pat Little, Mike Wexler, Pat Locke, Luke Brocks, Greg Larioni, Dave Kloc, Blair Veenema, Mike Park, Andy Cannon, Steve Just, and Blayne Fuke

Gold - Devin Shane, Pete McEaneaney, Dan Balk, Tyler Reid, Josh Blaine, Matt Hardy, Alex Gamoran, Nick Cacciola, Paul Toland, Dan Brien, Jim Bard, Ed Kahovec, Steve Guski, Nate Stein, and Chris Olsen.

I stopped by for a few innings on Friday and the Klocs also stopped by. The Blue team won by a sizeable margin, I think it was something like 14 - 3. On Sunday, the Gold team got out to an early lead, at one point 8 - 0, but the blue team came back and almost pulled it out, with the final score of 9 - 7. It was a great day, the weather was beautiful, but the sun over Fauver Stadium gave the right fielders some trouble. There was a great contingent of parents, the Kahovecs, Klocs, Fishbacks, Littles, Veenemas, and Mr. Sullivan were all out enjoying the day. I hope I didn't forget anyone.

It was great to see many of the local parents, I hope to see everyone at some point this coming season.

The team is playing a 7 inning game on Friday as part of the series, they play Finger Lakes CC on Saturday, and the series resumes on Sunday.

That's all for now, if anyone has any ideas for the blog, feel free to comment,

Thanks,

Ed

A New Year begins

Just a quick note to say welcome back!! The semester has begun and fall baseball is back. There will be a scrimmage/game against Finger Lakes community college in the near future, as soon as Eddie confirms the particulars, I will post. Welcome back to all the boys and welcome to the new players. We hope to welcome all in person in the near future.

I hope to see many of you this fall, if not at the scrimmage, let us know when you will be in town, maybe we can arrange to get together.

I am looking forward to the spring trip to Florida - March 7 - 16, 2008 and the season ahead. Much more to come.....

Stay tuned!!

All the best,

Ed

Dog Days of August

Baseball is over for a short while for the Kahovec family. Eddie finished the summer league with the Jackets as they advanced through the losers bracket to win the Championship of this ABC League. Andrew also advanced through the losers bracket of his summer league, but ended up losing in the quarterfinals.

It was great to see many of the local families supporting their sons during the summer. We saw the Lockes, Longs, Infurnas, Fishbacks, Vanderstynes, and Klocs this summer. Hope I didn't forget anyone??

Andrew is starting football - 9th grade already, where does the time go? Eddie went to Long Island last weekend with Chris Olsen to visit Mike Park, Devin Shane, and Pete McEneaney, among other UR friends.

There was a nice write up on the UR website about Pete, Blair Veenema, Ryan Sullivan, and Paul Toland and their summer leagues. Nice to see some off season recognition, as we all know too well, that there really is very little off season for our boys.

I am looking forward to fall ball and the start of Eddie's senior season, but it also comes with some sadness, as it is his senior season. This year we will have a lot of senior leadership, as there is a large senior class graduating in May! I am hopeful that they go out with something memorable from their last season of College baseball!

I heard that the spring trip will include some games in Tampa prior to the UAA tournament in Sanford.

Hope you all enjoy what is left of summer, see you this fall or next spring!!

Summer Baseball

Well, I thought I would start the summer baseball updates by saying that besides working part-time and working-out, Andy is playing in two baseball leagues. The one league is a nationally recognized organization, MABL, Men's Adult Baseball League, and the other is the Benito Juarez Baseball League. His team, the Cicero Pirates, yes Al Capone did hangout there, plays in both leagues.

His team is made-up of college players, past and present, and some ex-minor leaguers, some of which are high school coaches. In the MABL games, they play on Wednesday nights and Saturdays against teams that are of similar talent, past and present college players as well. In the Benito Juarez League, they play on Sunday only and most of the players are ex-minor leaguers, both from our country, and also from the Mexican League. In this league the ex-pro has to be out of professional baseball for at least two years before he is allowed to compete here. My father played in this league in the 1940's under a different name, and has been a place where ex-pro and college players could still play quality baseball. The fields might not be the greatest, and some don't even have outfield fences, but then, does it really matter.

Andy is leading-off and playing centerfield like he has with the Yellowjackets. This past Sunday they played the top team, Orioles, and beat them 5-1. Andy was 1-4 with an rbi and a BB, and also a double play. He caught a fly ball and doubled-off a runner at first! But in his last at-bat he faced the Orioles fourth pitcher of the day, an ex-Dodgers righthander, that got him to strikeout swinging. Andy did manage to foul one off. For an "older" guy, he still could bring-it!! This team had ex-Dodgers, Yankees, Cubs, and Washington Nationals players on it. These guys were good, but our pitcher, Andy's ex-teammate from high school, pitched a complete nine inning game. He was all-conference at Macalester College in Minnesota this past season. It's kind of funny that he was our number four pitcher in high school.

We know some kids that went to D1 schools to play, some of which were all-staters, only to find bench time! Many are either going to transfer, or might not stay on the team. We are so happy and thankful that Andy didn't want to do that and try and walk-on at some D1 school. He is very happy with UR and the Yellowjackets. Your kids have been great to him.

I hope everyone is doing well and relaxing a bit. This year went by quickly as I hope the summer won't. It's great to have Andy home, at least to sleep, sometimes eat, and ask for money. Next year I think he is going to stay and play ball in New York.

Keep in touch!!

Rich Cannon

Season ends, there's always next year!

This season ended in Troy once again, after 2 losses in the Liberty League tournament. For those who are not seniors, next year awaits. For our seniors, this had to be bittersweet with thoughts of what could have been. We certainly had our opportunities, and were in both games with realistic opportunities to turn the game in our favor with a timely hit or 2. We just were not able to string together enough hits at the right time against RPI, and St. Lawrence came down to the last at bat, after the team came back in the top of the 9th.

Congratulations to Skidmore - the 4th seed came in and surprised everyone by winning it all pretty easily and by having all facets of the game ready at the right time. They had great pitching, defense and their offense was clicking. All the best to them as they represent our conference in the NCAA tournament. The rest of the field will be announced on Monday, and I will be surprised if RPI gets a bid. They were highly regarded, but a 1-2 conference tournament may, and I think should, bounce them from the NCAA's. St. Lawrence would have a beef if RPI gets in and they do not, as they defeated RPI to get to the conference finals.

As far as next year goes, we lose 3 important seniors, but there are underclassmen waiting to step in. This year's freshman class stepped up and did a great job, the future is bright for them. Next year will be an important year, as a larger senior class leaves at the end of next season.

Expectations for next year have been set very high by those seniors. For many of them, next year is the reality of their last year of competitive baseball, as they graduate and go on to the next stages of their lives.

As the parents of one of the too soon to be seniors, how can we have a senior in college??? We were affected by watching the emotions of the Infurna family, as they were experiencing what we and others will have to face next season, whenever and wherever the final game will be. The thought crossed our minds that it is so final and so sudden and we were not ready for this season to end. We all said quick goodbyes, see you next season, etc. but then we actually made 2 stops along the thruway to see other parents and the team one more time!

What a great surprise for all of us, to see Mike and Jan Fuke arrive for the tournament all the way from Hawaii!!

We have so enjoyed this team and this group of parents. We look forward to seeing as many of you as possible in the fall and especially in Florida next spring!! We also look forward to welcoming the freshman parents to our family next year.

Please keep the blog alive over the summer with reports of your sons exploits over the summer - baseball, work, interships, grad school, etc. Many of the boys will be playing somewhere, several of them away from home. Keep us all posted with team website addresses, season updates, etc. I will promise to update anything that I am aware of, to include the Jackets summer team in the local summer league coached by Bob Sansone.

I intend to keep the email list current, so please let me know of any email address changes. You will not be removed until you ask me to, so those who have seniors this past year and in the future can remain in contact with those who remain. We have a rich baseball history at the U of R, that we are all a chapter of, as our sons move through the program.

Liberty League Tournament and Awards

The tournament is double elimination - winner gets a bid to the NCAA tournament

Friday -

# 1 UR vs St. Lawrence
# 2 RPI vs Skidmore
# 3 Winner # 1 vs Winner # 2

Sat -

# 4 Loser # 1 vs Loser # 2 - Loser goes home
# 5 Winner # 4 vs Loser # 3 - Loser goes home

Sun -

# 6 Winner # 3 vs Winner # 5
# 7 Rematch of # 6, if Winner of # 5 wins # 6

Hopefully, this makes it a little clearer, no matter what happens, everyone plays on Friday and Saturday. The exception is the team that wins 2 on Friday, they wait to play on Sunday against whoever wins the losers bracket.

Postseason awards were listed today on the Liberty League website, here's a recap:

Coaching staff of the year - Joe Reina and UR staff ( Andrew Coble and Joe Lanning) !!

1st team - Relief Pitcher, John Fishback and Shortstop Ed Kahovec
2nd team - Pitcher, Blair Veenema
Honorable Mention - Andy Cannon

CONGRATULATIONS TO ALL WHO WERE RECOGNIZED.

NOW, LETS GO THIS WEEKEND!!!!!

Liberty League tournament

We play at 9:30 AM on Friday vs. St. Lawrence. RPI takes on Skidmore @ 1:00 PM

CONGRATULATIONS

Congratulations are in order for the following Yellowjackets players!!!

Based upon information from the NCAA website, DIII Baseball........as of April 29th.......

John Fishback is ranked 13th nationally with 6 saves, 16 apps. and 25.3 innings.

Jim Bard is ranked 26th nationally with 8 Sacrifice Hits, or 0.27 per game.

Blayne Fuke is ranked 84th nationally with HBP's = 0.32 per game.

Blair Veenema is ranked twice nationally......87th with K's per 9 innings = 8.7, and 95th for total K's with 52.

Also, as a team they are ranked nationally.......

21st in Double Plays with 36 = 1.00 per game

25th in Fielding Percentage with 786 PO, 355 Assists, 43 Errors = .964%

44th in Team ERA = 3.50


Great job men!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

We need RPI and St Lawrence to lose

For us to win the Liberty League a few things have to happen specifically RPI cannot do better that .500 in their series against Vassar. Similarly, St L cannot do better than .750 against Clarkson.
The easiest way to understand the standings is to look at total points (my term) i.e. a series against an opponent is assigned 1,000 points. As of Monday April 30, we have 4,250 points and we are done for the year. The percentage of .708 is computed as 4,250 divided by 6 opponents = 708.
RPI has 3,750 and they have one more series against Vassar. RPI could pick up as many as 1,000 points or as low a zero depending on how they do vs. Vassar. St L has 3,500 points and they have one more series against Clarkson. Our best hope is for Vassar to take game one against RPI and have a rain out the balance of the series. That would leave RPI with 3,750. Likewise we need Clarkson to take .750 this weekend (i.e. 3-1 ) against StL.

Bottom line...it will be difficult to finish first in the regular season, but it can happen. Regardless of where the playoffs are held, we will win the playoffs.

Liberty League Standings

On Sunday a number of us were discussing the standings and how they are computed. I called the Liberty League person (who happens to work at St Lawrence University …which is suspect!) and found out. They take what we did against each league opponent and compute using 1000 as denominator. i.e. we were 500 against Skidmore (1-1)and 750 against Vassar (3-1).They then add up the above and divide by the number of teams we played. In summary we are 500 Skidmore, 1000 Clarkson, 750 Union, 500 RPI and 750 Vassar. Total 3,500 divided by 5 different opponents =700. Bottom line, if we sweep St L we win the league. If we don’t we need to take at least 3 from St L and then the next weekend we need Clarkson to take 2 against StL for us to win the league. The fact that St L played only 2 games against each of Skidmore and Vassar and won all 4 games …hurt us.

Vassar - 3-1

We finally got baseball weather, maybe even warmer than Florida!! We took 3 of 4 from Vassar. Their 1st League win, ouch! I hope that doesn't come back to haunt us. Again, we had good parental support, Thanks to all who made the trip. The field was in great shape, it was a minor league field used for the New York-Penn league during the summer. Overall, we played well, but could have hit better. Devin Shane seemed to be zoned in, with a couple of big hits! Defense was and continues to be outstanding! Pitching also remains a strong point with this team!

There were some questionable calls on the part of the umpires on both days, it gave those of us there plenty to talk about!!

Thanks again to all the parents who are supporting the team, I know that the boys appreciate it!!

NCAA D-3 baseball poll

The NCAA D-3 Baseball poll is out and Rochester is mentioned at the bottom as receiving votes and named on more than 1 ballot. We are currently ranked 3rd in New York State. Today's game against Brockport is a very big deal as they are # 2 in NY and # 20 nationally. We also play Ithaca twice on Wednesday and with St. Lawrence this weekend, this week is shaping up to be very important in terms of postseason play!

New York poll
1. Cortland
2. Brockport
3. Rochester
4. RPI
5. Centenary
6. Ithaca
7. St. John Fisher
8. tie Plattsburgh State and Oneonta State

National poll

# 3 Cortland - rained out
# 4 Emory - split in Florida 1-1
# 20 Brockport - game on tonight!!!

Good Luck to our boys!!!!

Comment on this Site

Ed Kehovac has done an excellent job in keeping us updated on this site. Please leave a comment on what you like and what you would like to see in the future. Thanks Ed!

Vassar this weekend!!

We travel to Vassar this weekend - weather reports look very promising, but I will not get my hopes up! Hope to see many of you in Poughkeepsie.

We are currently 2nd in the standings behind St. Lawrence and a successful weekend against Vassar would help to solidify our playoff position.

Go Jackets!

2007 All Academic Liberty League

Congratulations to the boys who were named to the All Academic Liberty League Team!!

Dan Balk

Gabe Chodak

Dave Kloc

Pete McEneaney

Brady Noon

Chris Olsen

Blair Veenema

This proves that we have a well rounded team, both athletically and scholastically!!

Split with RPI!!

Saturday proved to be a good day for our boys!! They proved to themselves that they can play with the top D-3 teams in the country and our nemisis RPI.

Blair Veenema pitched a great game in game 1, but the bats could not string together enough to score. We managed only 5 hits against RPI'S ace Joe Zongol. We had a chance in the 6th inning with 2 hits and a hit by pitch in the inning, but some poor base running cost us an opportunity to get back in the game with the score 1-0. RPI scored 2 more runs in the top of the seventh to finish us off. The 3-0 score was respectable, but did not foreshadow what was to come in game 2.

In game 2, a must win in most people's minds, UR exploded for 15 runs in a 15-4 victory!!

The boys had a total of 16 hits, with Frank Infurna, Dan Brien, and Andy Cannon leading the way with 3 hits each.

We scored 1 run in the 2nd, and RPI answered with 1 in the 4th. We scored 2 runs in the 5th, but RPI answered with a run in the 6th to cut the lead to 3-2.

Then UR went to work. With 1 out, Cannon singled, Kahovec reached on an error, and Vanderstyne singled. Bases loaded with 1 out, which is a situation that we haven't capitalized on enough this season. Brien singled to score 2, Shane singled to score 1, Infurna singled to reload the bases, Bard singled to score 2, Kloc was hit by a pitch to reload the bases, Fuke was hit by a pitch to score 1, Cannon struck out to record the 2nd out, Kahovec doubled to clear the bases, 3 runs scored!! Vanderstyne flied out to left to end the inning. 9 runs and 7 hits!!!!! There were some great at bats in the inning, and what was great to see was several of the singles shot through the right side of the infield, the boys taking what the pitcher gave them and going with it.

RPI answered with 2 runs in the top of the 7th inning to close the gap to 12-4.

In the 8th, UR added more. Bard walked, Kloc singled, Fuke flied out to left center deep enough to allow Bard to move to 3rd. Cannon singled scoring 1, Kahovec was hit by a pitch to load the bases. Vanderstyne popped up for the 2nd out and then Brien reached on an error by the shortstop scoring another run and keeping the bases loaded. Cannon then score on a wild pitch to close out the scoring.

Pete McEneaney pitched very well again and got the win to even his record at 3-3. Steve Guzski did well in relief, coming off an arm injury and Gabe Chodak and John Fishback finished it off by closing the door on RPI in the last 2 innings.

Sunday's games rained/snowed out, Tuesday @ Cortland looks doubtful at this moment.

I hope everyone has a great week, see those of you travelling at Vassar next weekend!!

UNION, RIT, THIS WEEKEND!!

Just a few random thoughts:

Last weekend @ Union - several of the boys were disappointed that we did not take all 4 games.

It was cold both days, so what else is new?? We are getting used to playing in the cold!!

Starting pitching did a great job, as did all the pitchers!!

Defense continues to be solid, offense was good, the Union pitcher who threw the 1 hitter did a good job of keeping our boys off stride by mixing up his pitches very well.

Thanks to David Little for supplying the balloons for our side bleachers!!

Thanks to the Guzskis for the tomato pie!!

Thanks to the Brocks for the cookies!!

Thanks to Nina Kahovec for putting together the candy bags!!

We played RIT twice this week and shut them out both days!! 13-0 and 2-0

Obviously, the pitching was again great and defense aided the cause. We took advantage of several errors in the 1st game and made 2 runs stand up in the 2nd game!

This weekend RPI comes to town!! This could be the biggest series of the year!! AND you guessed it the forecast is for cold and wet!! Several of us are talking about getting together somewhere after the Saturday games?? Is anyone interested?? Does anyone have a suggestion for a place?? Just an inpromptu get together!!

Congratulations to Andy Cannon, Liberty League Rookie of the week and Jay Jay Vanderstyne, who was named Rochester Area player of the week.

Hope to see many of you this weekend!!

UR travels to Union - Happy Easter!!

We will be travelling to the Schenectady area for the games against Union this weekend! Anyone else travelling??

Upstate NY weather has thrown a monkeywrench into the schedule. Hopefully, we will get the games in this weekend.

The boys played well last weekend and it was good to see Pete get a win. I talked with several Clarkson parents on Sunday during the rain delay, and we all seemed to be in agreement that RPI splitting with St. Lawrence was a very good thing for both UR and Clarkson. Not too many RPI fans in this group!!

We are currently 4 league games behind due to weather, and if we do not get the games in this weekend, the rest of the season will be a rescheduling nightmare. Not to mention the 2 non-league games against Brockport and St. John Fisher. I believe that Fisher is rescheduled for May 1st.

See you all soon!!

Ed

Anyone else feel the national anthem should be sung before the start of games? I think this is important and frankly it felt strange to not do so this weekend before the doubleheader. Didn't we do this last year? I always find it quite stirring to do so. Also I think it would be nice to have a flagpole and the 'Stars and Stripes' flying above the outfield wall. Would be a nice assist to gauge wind direction and velocity for the players / coaches also. If all agree I would be glad to bring this forward with U of R staff.

UAA Honors - 4 UR Players

The following information was taken from an article on the URBaseball website. Click here to see the complete article.

I'm still working on how to post photos. Patti Sullivan

"Four Rochester baseball players have earned All-Association honors from the University Athletic Association in balloting of the head coaches.

Honorees were selected after conclusion of the UAA Championship Tournament in Sanford, Fla. in mid-March. Rochester finished in a tie for second place in the UAA standings with a 3-3 record.

Junior outfielder Jim Bard (Grosse Isle, MI/Chesterton) and junior shortstop Ed Kahovec (Victor, NY/Victor) were named to the First Team. Junior infielder/DH Frank Infurna (Rochester, NY/Webster Schroeder) and junior catcher Devin Shane (Bedford, NH/Manchester West) were named to the Second Team. It is the first UAA honor for all four men."

This weekend Clarkson comes to town

This weekend Clarkson comes to town. Are any parents from out of town coming in this weekend? Hope to see many of you at the University over the weekend! Go Jackets!!

On 4/4 the team travels across town to play @ St. John Fisher.

Next weekend is the 1st away weekend @ Union, according to Coach Reina's mail from the past Holiday season, the team will be staying at the Holiday Inn Express, 946 New Loudon Road, Latham, NY 12110 518-783-6161

I will try to confirm the travel plans this weekend.

Patti has done an excellent job with the blog, thanks again!!

Quick Update - Ed Kahovec

Today's game against Brockport has been postponed, with no reschedule date available yet.
I will be updating the email list this week, when you receive my next email, I hope to have a more complete distribution list.
It was nice to see many of you at the games on Sunday. I will usually be wearing a yellow, yellowjacket ball cap, so stop by to say hello. I am notoriously bad with names, but promise to get better as the season progresses. To that end, and to help other parents get to know each others names, I will be requesting names, addresses, etc in my next email. Then I will add all this information to the old list and try to keep it updated.
Ken - I support you 100%, let me know if there is anything you would like me to do. I think it is great that the kids help to maintain their field, but this weekend was above and beyond, and they could have used additional help. I would even volunteer to help maintain the field when necessary, but I would like to see a little more support from the UR staff.
Thanks more to come later this week, including thoughts from the 2 games against Skidmore!!
Ed Kahovec

Thank You - Rich Cannon

Shirl and I want to thank all of the parents that we had a chance to meet down in Florida. Your friendliness and conversations have made us feel welcome.
We know that some of the kids, and they will always be kids in our eyes, will be graduating soon. The short time that Andy will have had a chance to play baseball with them is a plus for him, learning from the upperclassman, and hopefully maintaining communication with one another into the future.
The season seems to be off to a good start compared to last year from what I have read. The team I thought played very well in Florida, and I get the sense that they are bonding as a team. The veteran players showing their support to the freshman really shows. That is not common, and I 'm sure it makes Andy feel welcome. I know it makes Shirl and me feel pretty happy.
Again, thanks to all, and a special thanks to those on the idea of creating this blog.
Rich Cannon
aka, BoomerIL

Poor Field Conditions - Ken Veenema

Parents,

Thought I'd get the UR parents blog off to a start. Just dropped my son Blair off at 8:30am at the U of R baseball field. Standing water throughout the outfield and 36 degrees, but 24 student athletes (our sons) and Coach Reina trying to get things ready for a 12 noon start of a weekend doubleheader. No grounds crew assistance and no pumps getting water off the outfield. Just our sons and their coach lugging buckets of water to the side. I am a big believer in the D3 athletic concept, but at 32K per year I have a real problem with the fact that there is no University support out there helping them out.
Plan on addressing this complaint with athletic department and university administation. Comments and suggestions?
Agreed and have parent support?

Ken Veenema
Mar 25 09:56:05 2007

Ed Kahovec - Parent Communication

It was great to see and meet those of you that travelled to Florida this past week. I thought that the team did a great job and I am looking forward to the season. I am encouraged that last year we came out of Florida 1-7 and this year we were 5-4, and had a shot at the UAA Tournament title!

In the past, someone has maintained an email list of parents and alumni. I guess that I am volunteering myself. Please review this first list of those parents that were on Coach Reina's itinerary email and respond back with any corrections or any email addresses that I may have missed. I would like to put together a contact list for the parents and alumni, so I will be soliciting more information in the near future. I will go back to past lists and try to make this list as complete as possible.

Also, if anyone has any ideas about what they would like to see in the email, let me know! Should we set up a blog? Does anyone know how and where we could do this? Should I just ramble on about what a great group of boys we have on the team and how the parents enjoy each others company, etc, or maybe just a weekly update of some sort?

Hope to see many of you throughout the season, Wed Mar 21 23:16:41 2007
Ed Kahovec