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Blue vs. Black Series Underway

Game 1: Black 9 - Blue 6
Game 2: Blue 8 - Black 4
Game 3: Blue 4 - Black 2 (Blue wins series)
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2010 Varsity Team 8 - 2010 Alumni 2
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2009 Alum Alex Mejia gets his first two hits of his collegiate career at the University of Arizona.

Junior RHP Jose Cardona has verbally committed to Cal State Fullerton!!!
Congratulations Jose.

http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/varsitytimesinsider/2009/11/baseball-top-ecr-pitcher-picks-cs-fullerton.html

* 2007 Alumni Dominic D'Anna on baseball's elite list for 2009
http://gomatadors.cstv.com/sports/m-basebl/spec-rel/090209aaa.html


* 2005 Alumni Ryan Lavarnway hits 21st HR of the season!

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Varsity:
Defensive Player of the Year - Jake Laurita
Pitcher of the Year - Jose Cardona
Offensive Player of the Year - Travis Keppel
Coaches Award - Alex Mejia and Alexander DeLeon
MVP - Michael Booth

Junior Varsity:
Defensive Player of the Year - Sterling Rose
Pitcher of the Year - Ryan Fitzpatrick
Offensive Player of the Year - Tony Rizzo
Coaches Award - Mike Reeve and Chris Nicholson
MVP- Daniel Dungan

Frosh/Soph:
Defensive Player of the Year - Matt Mackey
Pitcher of the Year - Jimmy Day
Offensive Player of the Year - Mitchell Dergazarian
MVP - Mason Novak

Varsity All League Selections:
(1st Team)                  (2nd Team)
Alex Mejia                  Jake Laurita
Alexander DeLeon      Chris Whitmer  
Travis Keppel             Mitch Bluman
Michael Booth            Ivan Vela
Jose Cardona            Greg Burtch

Junior Varsity All League Selections:
Mike Reeve
Daniel Dungan
Tony Rizzo
Ryan Fitzpatrick

2009 Summer All-Star game will be played June 11th, 2009 @ Birmingham HS. There are 2 Games, one at 3:00pm and one at 6:30pm. Our boys will be playing in the 6:30pm.

The Selections:
Mitch Bluman
Ivan Vela
Matt Michiel
Daniel Dungan
Chris Nicholson

Congrats Boys: Come out and support our players!!!

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All City Selections 2009
1st Team All City:
Travis Keppel
Michael Booth
Alexander DeLeon

2nd Team All City:
Alex Mejia
Jose Cardona

6/13/09 - City section all-stars made up of 16 West Valley players dominated the Southern section all-stars 10-1. Travis Keppel was 0-2 with two hard hit outs, a groundball that the 2nd baseman made a web-gem on, and a line drive right at the short-stop. Michael Booth was 0-0 with 2 BB's and he pitched a scoreless inning striking out the side. Alexander DeLeon was 0-1 with a BB and a run scored. DeLeon also won the HR derby, his 2nd HR derby crown of the season.

Great end to a great HS career gentlemen, we are all very proud of you, you represented El Camino well!

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2006 Alumni Gabe Cohen and Garrett Claypool taken in the 2009 Amateur draft.

Gabe Cohen was taken in the 29th round by the Tampa Bay Rays out of UCLA
Garrett Claypool was taken in the 32nd round by the Oakland Athletics out of UCLA

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Michael Booth, Alexander DeLeon, Travis Keppel and Alex Mejia have been selected to participate in the end of the year all - star game which is the best of the Los Angeles City Section vs. the best of the Southern Section.

The game will take place June 13th @ Birmingham HS @ 6:30pm.

Booth named to 2nd Team All-State by Max Preps
http://www.maxpreps.com/news/2qJXEmTfEd6SyQAcxJTdpg/california--hobgood-rakes-in-another-player-of-the-year-honor.htm

Jose Cardona article: http://www.latimes.com/sports/la-sp-sondheimer24-2009apr24,0,2265010.column

Playoffs Round 3 @ Chatsworth
Michael Booth pitched a strong 3.1 innings yielding 4 hits and giving up 2 earned runs and 4 unearned runs. Down 4-0 in the top of the 5th, Booth hit his 15th HR of the season, a 2-run shot to cut the lead in half. Chatsworth responded with 4 more runs to take an 8-2 lead. ECR battled back with 2 more runs in the 6th, highlighted by a Travis Keppel solo shot (his 10th) and a Ivan Vela run scoring single to make it 8-4. Keppel added an RBI double in the top of the 7th but that would be it. Greg Burtch a solid 2.1 innings of shutout, one-hit baseball in relief.

This was the first time ECR had advanced to the Semi-finals since 2006.

Playoffs Round 2 (5/22/09)
Banning jumped in front 3-0 in the first inning, before ECR answered back with 1 in the 1st, 5 in the 3rd, 3 in 4th, 2 in the 5th and 3 in the 6th. Chris Whitmer was 2-2 with 2 RBI; Michael Booth was 4-4 with 3 RBI (Booth hit his 14th HR of the season); Mitch Bluman hit a 2-run HR; Ivan Vela was 3-4 with 2 RBI (Vela hit a solo HR); Jeff Sutherland was 2-3 and Greg Burtch picked up his 8th win of the season pitching 3 innings in relief.

JV - 9 Bell - 0 (5/21/09)

Playoffs Round 1 (5/20/09)
Michael Booth struck out 10 and gave up one unearned run in a complete game performance to open up the playoffs. Ivan Vela was 3-3 with 3 RBI. Jake Laurita had a RBI single and Alexander DeLeon had an RBI triple. Mitch Bluman scored two runs.


JV - 23 Venice - 2 (5/19/09, Game 1 of playoffs)

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