http://www.coloniebaseball.com/vellano Sun, 06 Jun 2010 19:36:52 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en The Brothers came to play on Saturday. They were facing the great EHC team and knew this was going to be a big shoot-out. In top of the first we faced the EHC line-up. As a team they have a batting average 100 points above ours. They ... http://www.coloniebaseball.com/vellano/?p=149 The baseball diety smiled on the visitor's dugout tonight and rewarded the purple gang with a very precious victory. The joy was mixed with relief, and gratitude and pride and hope all in one big baseball flavored smoothy when Jimmy Morrison made the last out and our kids stormed the ... http://www.coloniebaseball.com/vellano/?p=148 I have never been part of a baseball game that was 25-0 before our game on Saturday. It was a really hard thing to deal with. I felt horrible for the pitchers on the mound. It felt like innings would never end. I couldn't find the ... http://www.coloniebaseball.com/vellano/?p=147 We took another one on the chin last night as 99 restaurant downed us 13-3. There were plenty of defensive errors to go around, but also a few highlights. Nate McCarroll continued doing a great job behind the plate. Jimmy Morrison made 2 highlight reel ... http://www.coloniebaseball.com/vellano/?p=146 It was another exciting night as the "Purple Gang" stormed the field at Cook Park for a battle with the team that has won the league championship 2 of the last 3 years. VFW has a mixture of 12 year old all-stars and young guns that make them a ... http://www.coloniebaseball.com/vellano/?p=145 There are some special plays in a baseball game that make a game a great game to coach. The fans come and clap for good baseball. As a coach I get to see what went into that good baseball. I see the work, and anxiety, and fear, ... http://www.coloniebaseball.com/vellano/?p=144 Here is one of lifes riddles: Why do you learn so much more from failure than you do from success? Wouldn't it be great if we could be succeeding and getting wise at the same time. It's almost like God's draft system. If you ... http://www.coloniebaseball.com/vellano/?p=143 Zack Shaw has been evaluated by his personal othopedic surgeon, and is being treated for a broken bone in his left hand. To the fans that saw him offer his hand to stop Dom Heralds "screaming rocket" line drive on Saturday night, this is no surprise. Most mortals would have ... http://www.coloniebaseball.com/vellano/?p=142 It was a cold windy night at cook park. The wind chill temp was 39 degrees, and game time was 8PM. Fans were swaddled in blankets and players layered in Under Armor. We faced Daily Gazette, a team with 4 members of the 12 year old all star team, ... http://www.coloniebaseball.com/vellano/?p=141 Tonight was our best performance of the year. Coach DiNovo said "those guys didn't give 100%, they gave 200%." Sitting on the visitors side of CLL tonight was a treat for all of the fans. We got to see Duncan Satterlee in total control of some nasty pitches. He ... http://www.coloniebaseball.com/vellano/?p=140