Tag Archive: Sports News

2010 JCBI Tryouts

It's that time again, JCBI will be holding open tryouts on Saturday, August 22rd for the upcoming 2010 baseball season.  All teams have openings -- 12U, 13U and 14U. JCBI operates three developmental competitive baseball teams in which the Jays Baseball Coaching staff helps prepare you ...

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social networking in youth sports

weplay.com is a new social networking website geared to youth sports. Parents can share photos and videos of their kids and teams, organize their activities and team events into a single calender. Coaches can manage team schedules, promote tournaments and such. Kids can share their thoughts about the big game and even interact with ...

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Willie no longer with BC Baseball

I received an interesting comment from Willie yesterday.  For those who don't know, Willie managed the umpires for the BC League at Twin Oaks in Columbia, Missouri for the past couple years.  Personally, I thought he was great, his son played some with Sam on ...

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2009 JCBI 14U team selected

Next years baseball team has been selected.  The "official" roster will be posted at http://www.jcbi.org within a couple of days.  If you made the team, congratulations.  If not, keep working at it and give it another try next August. 2009 JCBI 14U Roster: Dylan Brauner Cameron Carroll Dan Haynes Sam Atkinson Trevor Rucker Alex Johnson Steven Coots Joesph Limbach Corey Beard Erick Standlee Scott Stegeman Austin ...

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JCBI 12U and 13U teams picked

Both the 12U and 13U teams for the upcoming 2009 baseball season have been posted at http://www.jcbi.org.  If you made one of the teams, congratulations!  If not, keep working on your baseball skills and give it another try in 2010.  Tryouts are typically held every August, so you have an entire year to ...

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Nine year old Jericho Scott

Unless you've been living under a rock lately, you've undoubtedly heard about nine year old Jericho Scott.  Jericho loves baseball, and at nine years of age already inflicts terror on his opponents, so much so that teams refuse to play when he takes the mound. I was struck by the news stories this week ...

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Instant replay coming to MLB

Sports Illustrated is reporting that Major League Baseball has inked an agreement with the Umpires that allows the use of instant replay to help determine calls on the field.  Seems the gear has been installed and we could see it inuse this month. The marching of technology is inevitable, but it'll take some getting ...

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Team Rampage dissolved

Unfortunately, team Rampage is no more.  Can't say for sure what exactly happened to this team, several players just moved onto other teams. Pretty sad. I'm still trying to get used to all this softball tryouts and girls moving around from team to team.  ...

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2009 JCBI Tryouts

Do you eat, sleep and breathe baseball?  Do you long to be on a competitive baseball team?  Are you driven to be the best you can be?  If so, Jefferson City Baseball, Inc. (JCBI) may be for you.  JCBI will be ...

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Wellston Rugrats

Hats off to this team.  Those young men fought hard in the Show-Me State games, going 3-0 in pool play only to loose the two bracket games.  That's hard on kids, but it's a part of baseball and I'm sure they understand that.  But that's not why I'm writing about them. First, a little history. We ...

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